Hype yourself blatantly here.

[Marcus Wilson]

I got my wife pregnant!!

[Rachel Peters]

I was going to hype something about myself, but I can't beat that. Congratulations!

[Rachel Peters]

and the winner is......

ok ok ok. alsdjfldkjf;skdf so, I gotta hype this or I'm gonna explode. Last night I was the coolest hobnobber that ever was.
My evening included wine, cheese, and a room full of Oscar and Emmy winners. ...animated ones, but nevertheless. Cool thing was -- I was already friends/colleagues with 1/3 of them, so I didn't feel like the hovering, little student I usually feel like.
I met the poster-boy for documentary-animation hybrids. Before he won his Oscar for "Ryan" I had mailed him an "I'm a winner" fake gold medal in the mail. This is years ago. He went to my website and e-mailed me a 'thanks' back then. So, I introduced myself as that girl who mailed him the crazy dollar store crap, and he said, "That was you? That was...... you." And I started thinking, "Oh crap. This is the awkward silence right before the moment when he takes two slow steps back and calls security." ...But then he came at me with a hug and told me I was funny. That's when I promptly dropped my drink and heaping plate of chips on the floor, at his feet. Oh yeah. I'm smooth. ...so smooth.
So, half my conversation with him took place while mopping up the floor with napkins. Then he and someone else introduced me to the docu exec. producer who would be my exec. producer, if my docu-mation hybrid about performers went through. She knew my name already because of all the stupid questions I've emailed her. We ended up talking about cashews and caramel corn.
...It was just a good evening of hobbing and nobbing.
I'm way too lucky. ...I don't know how I get into positions like that. ...well, if I trace back my steps, I can figure it out. But still. Very surreal to think about.

[jester]

I watched a team of pretentious over funded luvvies at an arts fair prelude their performance with a speech about the work they do with people who have "mental health issues" and how this inspired their work.

Annoyed by their patronising rubbish I heckled "I don't just work with people who have mental health problems. I employ them too."

The speaker responded politely: "How many do you employ."

I replied "I'm self employed."

I felt so proud of myself.

[Mr.Taxi Trix]

Dammit, Jester, you beat me to the reply in the last line of your post. Congrats, Rachel... the dormant seeds you planted are alive.

Personally, I carved our tiny mountain UP with my snowboard last week, to no acclaim, because I suck, actually, but nearing 40, some odd caution had crept in this year, and it took something to get through the 3 days of falling, and finally remember how to do it right.
Phew! Another molehill climbed.

[Rachel Peters]

You know the Beatles movie, "Yellow Submarine"?
Well, I just walked by Mr. Driessen's office (the nice, old, Dutch man who made it), started rubbing my head against his door frame and asked him if I did it long enough, if I'd grow talent by osmosis.

Maaaaaaan, I absolutely WRAWK at being weird!

(Oh, and he said, "maybe if you try someone else's door." awww.)

[jester]

I wos on TV on Friday and all my neighbours saw it but I didn't even know I was on. It was local magazine show using archive footage. But it's nice that people keep saying they saw it.

Oh and last week I was on "History Mysteries" as an "expert witness." I am an expert. It's official.

[Rachel Peters]

tattoos

So, it seems that my highly evangelical "Tree of Life" drawing has become a popular tattoo item amongst googlers. I've gotten many requests from strangers to ink it into their skin... who knew.
Here's the first person to have gotten back to me with the finished product. ...although she took out the 'highly evangelical' part, which was sort of the point of the piece. But even so, I feel quite honoured.
I hope the others send me pictures too.

[le pire]

just did a run of five theater shows... five standing ovations. five for five. Even as I sit here in this crappy hotel by the highway that has free wireless internet, it feels good.

I'm going to bed, now. And I have found the ULTIMATE sleep-aid when you're on the road. Just pop on the DVD of Star Wars Phantom Menace and WHAMO! Asleep in 2 minutes flat. Thank you, George Lucas, for making the shittiest movie on the planet. Who needs drugs or alcohol when there is Jar Jar Binks?

Nighty night! fais le beaux reves!

etienne

[jester]

A stanging ovation in a theatre is easy enough - especially with Ettienes act (which I would steal if I could only afford tuba lessons.) Now try getting your audience on the street to sit down on a wet day...

A soak my arse sit down ovation.... That's a challenge.

[scot]

Euphonium

[le pire]

After five years of renouncing the greasepaint forever...

I am now a member of the Big Apple Circus Clown Care unit in Boston.


p.s. Scot's right, I use a euphonium in the show. I can play all valved brass instruments, and even own a concert tuba. The bloody thing is simply too big and heavy for the routine (not to mention transporting the beast), so I use a euphonium, call it a tuba an 99% of the people have no clue.

[jester]

I can not even walk a ladder and let go with my hands. Er, breaking my legs last year really have dented my ability to just let go of the ladder. But at least I can get up there.

A Tuba will disguise the fact that I am significantly heavier than Ettiene.

[Frisbee]

My other half...

I just got the film of the day for some puppet work I did for:

https://www.TurnHere.com

I built and performed this puppet for a tour of San Francisco's Russian Hill.

He is a Russian puppet in search of why Russian Hill is called that, since there is no Russian Food, Architecture or people, except one tourist I found.

It was done mostly improv and I think that it came out well.

If you go to the site and I am not the film of the day any longer, do a search and look up Russian Hill, or San Francisco and it should pop up.

I think that you can even leave feedback on the film.

[Stretch]

Out standing puppet! Does the jaw work off of your chin?