Regrets:

Before I was funny solo, I was in a sketch troupe that had an awesome name and did very little. We were The Square Foot and we had many great ideas that never came to fruition. We were young and lazy.

Surprisingly, the laziest (me) decided to take a sketch writing class at the Upright Citizens Brigade Training Center in NYC. Thanks to the class I was informed about Liquid Courage a (then) weekly Friday night show at midnight that lets sketch troupes practice their work in front of a live audience.

We showed up way too early and were let in to watch the troupe on stage. I was separated from the remaining square feet because I was caught off guard by seeing Paul Sheer on stage. This was long before Human Giant but still interesting because I knew him from Best Week Ever. Though he always made me laugh on that show he failed me greatly that night.

During a scene about dads looking for Christmas trees and lights, one asked for a tree like the one from the Lord of the Rings films. Then Paul Sheer decided to ask for a Death Star to place atop of the tree and he proceeded to say "it's the size of a small planet."

No! The Death Star is not the size of a small planet, but the size of a small moon. I so badly wanted to shout this and be the dick who thought greater of himself. But I let it go and to this day don't know why I did. I'd just love to brag about how I was a complete ass solely because someone mis-quoted and mis-sized the Death Star.

Oh, well.

Paul Sheer has redeemed himself by being probably as huge of a LOST fan as I am and always will be. So he's cool in my book.

Justified Rambles

Super Pals Mike and Tim suggested I join a site called Aardvark (vark.com). It's a site that lets you sign up and claim expertise on specific topics. then people from around the globe ask you questions that are germain to your areas of expertise. You then answer them back and get evaluated on how helpful/knowledgeable you are.

My areas of expertise are: Star Wars, Comedy and Lord of the Rings. Just recently I realized that I could add LOST; and did. This morning I awoke to find that a man from Canada asked me what the ending to LOST was. I was hesitant to tell him and told him he should really watch the series. I figured he wouldn't but felt like talking about LOST anyway so I wrote for over an hour straight (leaving out sub plots).

I love you, aardvark, you make it necessary for me to lecture about things I love and can no longer speak about in front of my non-geeky friends.

-a.

I Go Against Everything I Said Yesterday (Sort of)

YES! Last night's episode of Big Bang Theory finally ended Leonard and Penny's relationship, so my spec is back up and running. All I have to do now is just shorten scenes so that they move faster, and maybe lessen the intense Lord of the Rings references I have in there so as that it could be read easier by simpletons (HA!).

I can salvage it unlike my Office spec where they changed the show and cast around so much that my very first spec must die a death seen and heard by no one but it's originator. It's sad... but I'm still excited to keep and upgrade my Big Bang spec!

-a.

Lousy Copy Cats!!

I saw the 3/8/2010 episode of Big Bang Theory last night, and am greatly displeased that the entire episode was based around the Lord of the Rings as well as many references to it. My spec script does that also, not in the same way, but I hate how now it looks like I saw this episode and was inspired.

I guess it's good though that I have become disenchanted with my spec after writing a great Modern Family spec that I'm really proud of and a surprisingly well done spec of the Middle. I suppose that when I write non-geeky things my writing is better?

You tell me fan base of zero, you tell me.

-a.