KingLou Drops Science 2.0

Well the Spring '05 school year officially started yesterday. Already I feel put upon to to actually do real work. Sigh. Because my student assistants haven't all firmed up their class shedules yet I can't start asking them to come in and so I am having to be at school at 8:30 every morning until they do. 8:30... it's just too early. One perk is that the train wasn't so crazy crowded yesterday on the way in. I should have left early to make up for that early start.... Maybe today I will. Gunshow had it's first show of the year at Gotham a week ago. It was not my favorite. Lots of breakdown happening. Lets just say that when Ralph Machio is involved in an improv show then something is just wrong.

So.... almost a month has gone by since I lasta "blog'd" for you and for me. Gunshow had a show in Mid-Decemeber. It was really good and fun. It was a little blue. Actually I would say it was brown. There was a never ending series of fart jokes. This is what I remember now a month later. Suggestion: Boogers 1) A bunch of kids are taking an exam and someone keeps farting. One brave kid proudly takes credit for each one. Then another kid claims that he is the one who is really farting and wants to know why the guy is stealing his fart glory. 2) A man shows his guest the room she'll be sleeping in. He points out all the porno mags and sex toys that she can use while she stays. She says she doesn't want these things but is offered an increasingly disturbing set of sex options. A geek in the closet. a sex bear who is great at oral sex. 3) a couple are eating dinner together. The girl can't stop farting. The guy doesn't pay attention and tries to talk to her. Tap out to the guy talking to the girls brother. There is also a ton a of farting. Tap out to a the brother and sister talking. The farting is throught the roof. 4) a bunch of students are taking an exam. One of them grunts. He lets everyone know that he is the one who grunted. "I'm the guy who just came" 5) a man confronts another man who had defeated him in martial arts years before. He has been studying for years to defeat him but hasn't been able to get over the flaws that made him suck before 6) People keep discovering that they are being followed by other people who are all following each other to party that only the first guy has an invite to. It was a good show. Now it's the new year and the unusual things have already started to happen. I was having lunch with my friend and improv coach, Dan Goldstein last week. My boss showed up at the same restaurant with a friend of his. It turned out that his friend was a High School classmate of mine. A guy I haven't seen in almost 20 years. It freaked me out. It was a llucky thing that we met because otherwise I most certainly would never have found out about the impending HS reunion that is be organized. Apparently he told my boss that I was a stoner in High School which couldn't be further from the truth. I was a hard-core non-drug user. Not straight-edge but distainful of stoners. He also said I was Goth before Goth. Not exactly true. I would like to think I was more punk than goth but I could never commit to any punk sub-culture financially or mentally. Funny to hear what people thought of me 17 years ago. Sigh. Okay this update is woefully short considering the time that has elapsed. So much as has happened! People have been dumped or dumped. Ace is totally almost talking. He mimics us all the time. In other baby news my cousin Amanda had a baby yesterday. His name is Elias Gates Landberg Fernandez. Welcome!