beth

 I hate when people try to help you with something by getting in the way of your doing it. 
I am actually almost done with this boring day of work. Hardly anyone else had to come in today.

I read this interesting entry about female hysteria on wikipedia, which was accompanied by this hilarious old-timey advertisement:

  and this great illustration of water treatment:

OMBARDO @GCI TONIGHT!!!!

GOTHAM CITY IMPROV

10:00 pm

$5.00

Bombardo presents: Summertime Blues special, with SPECIAL GUESTS Death League Tea Party & Haberdasher.

BOMBARDO is Emily Askin, Chelsea Clarke, Emily Felt, Marcy Jarreau, Beth Newell, Aubrey Plaza and Erica Warnock.

HABERDASHER is Will Carry, Brian Craine, Erik Dies, Susan Famulare, James Geppner, Aaron Glaser, Chris Harwood, Chrissie Mayr, Kristen Rozanski, Jessie Spellman

DEATH LEAGUE TEA PARTY is Joe Spellman, Anna Rubanova, Cesa Kobe-Smith, Kristy Webb, Alden Ford, Steven Slate, Marcos Sanchez (www.myspace.com/deathleagueteaparty)

GOTHAM CITY IMPROV

48 West 21 St Street, 8th floor

(between 5th & 6th Ave.)

Enter #801 ..pad by door.

New York, NY 10011

212-367-8222

www.gothamcityimprov.com

1940's house isn't half the show Frontier house is. I guess it just goes to show that casting is everything.

I called to confirm one of the appointments I had to look at an apartment tomorrow. The guy said that it turns out the people in the apartment still live there. What?
Gah!
finding an apartment is so frustrating in so many aspects.

I just ordered my cap and gown.
The size selection was "200 pounds or less."
I'm like a size 0. So tiny!

Lookout World! Here comes a not quite obese adult with a degree in skills that will never garner any sort of steady employment.

Rather than get any of my senior projects done, I've been working on designing a flyer for bombardo and this:

bombardoimprov.com

also - one of the best book covers ever:

Hello all. Things are pretty great with me except that I'm hitting the end of semester sleepless cram. Really I just wanted to let you all know about this:

CAGEMATCH
Project Improviser vs. Mailer Daemon
Thursday November 30. 11 pm
UCB Theater
8th ave. & 26th st.
$5 or free w/ UCB student id

http://ucbtheatre.com/schedule/showdetails.php?showid=25

Please come vote for Project Improviser so we can continue to perform together.

Thanks.

You may or may not know that I've been selected as one of the nine contestants on Project Improviser.

Our first performance is this Wednesday, June 14 at 11 pm at the UCB Theatre (8th Ave. & 26th St.)

Our "challenge" for the week is to try to bring people to our show. Whoever brings the most people to the show wins "immunity" from being voted off for the week. If you come to see the show, please find the guy with the clipboard by the door and tell him you're there to see "Beth."

This show is FREE and the contestants are a really strong group of improvisers.

Please help me win immunity and stay on the show for another week.
You should also friend Project Improviser on Myspace.

The first episode should be up on the site on June 12th.

They just opened this new coffee/sandwich shop/bakery place near my house. It's french. When you walk in people are speaking french and have french accents. I love it. The wasp half of me loves the gentrification of my neighborhood.
Anyway, this place just got way more awesome when I was in there today and a french woman spilled her change purse all over the floor. To this her french friend exclaimed "Ooh-la-la!"
I didn't know this phrase was spoken outside of french stereotypes. Amazing.

You know what else is amazing: Frogs, a horror movie made in the 70's.

"Ray Milland plays an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Sam Elliot plays a free-lance photographer who is doing a pollution layout for an ecology magazine. Jason Crokett (Milland) hates nature, poisoning anything that crawls on his property. On the night of his birthday the frogs and other members of nature begin to pay Milland back."

Trivia: Many of the 500 Florida frogs and 100 giant South American toads purchased for use in the film escaped during production.

What's better than Frogs getting back at a man that literally hates the environment?
This movie is horribly amazing.

from now on my entries are friends only.
I'm starting to wonder who reads this that I don't know about.