Tonight I preformed in a comedy show and after the show a man wanted to have his picture taken with me. He put his strong arm around me. He said I was great in the show- very funny. Then he said, kind of embarrassed. “I told my friends that you were Mrs. Tidwiddel… like you [...]
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Tonight I preformed in a comedy show and after the show a man wanted to have his picture taken with me. He put his strong arm around me. He said I was great in the show- very funny. Then he said, kind of embarrassed. “I told my friends that you were Mrs. Tidwiddel… like you [...]
Posted in My Life | Tagged comedy, compliments, improv, man |
I LOVE my improv class. I love all the things we do in comedy improv, but tonight I realized that what I really love is how people look at me in my class. They look at me with respect in their eyes, and I look at them with respect. It feels SOOO good. Ahhhhh… what [...]
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I had one of those rolling around mornings where I woke up, laid in bed, started to think about getting up and then drifted back into dreaming. Rinse, repeat. Eventually when I was more awake, I started indulging in one of my bad habits which is imagining that I can go back in time and [...]
Posted in Essays Epiphanies and Reviews | Tagged advice, art, exercise, family, food, friends, happiness, health, improv, love, mom, music, support, travel, traveling, yoga |
Ya know, I’m just not as clever as that clever Tina Fey lady. Or maybe she’s just more hard hitting than I am. Ya know, when my improv group asked me to impersonate Sarah Palin, I didn’t blink. I said, I’ll do it. I’ll do it for our group, and I’ll do it for my [...]
Posted in Essays Epiphanies and Reviews, My Art | Tagged feminism, improv, politics, Presidential election 2008, Sarah Palin, Tina Fey, video |
Let’s see… real life stuff: After taking my car (which was running just fine) for a check up in preparation for a road trip to the mechanic today, and paying $500 to get a new… something… plus new hoses, clamps, a light, and stuff, I drove my car home and now my car will not [...]
Posted in My Life | Tagged car, crying, embarrassed, friends, improv, mechanics, pirates |
Anther improv story from last week. Our improv class is SO funny and I almost never remember exactly what was so funny. Ok, one more fun scene: Emotion switching. We were stuffing a pinata. I started with chavaunistic, he started with schitzophrenic (I don’t know how to spell either of those.) It is really hard [...]
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AYE ye scurvy pirates! I had a couple really fun scenes in improv last week. An emotion switching game: This time I started with masochistic and my partner started with ambitious. Me: “Cinch up my dress, tighter, tighter! Ouch! MMM! Oh!! I can almost feel my ribs cracking!” She: “With this dress and my skill [...]
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AYE ye scurvy pirates! I had a couple really fun scenes in improv tonigh I also had an incredibly crappy scene where where the audience gives us a task, gives each of us an emotion and then we have to switch emotions back and forth while the scene is taking place. It went really badly [...]
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AYE ye scurvy pirates! I had a couple really fun scenes in improv tonight. ““ We had a melodrama scene where our goal was to act melodramatically, our task was to watch paint dry, and our opening line had to be, “What time is it?” We both stared at the imaginary wall between us and [...]
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