Friday night I went to a BBQ.

It was mostly a bunch of actors talking about shows they NEED to do together. Oh and I have the perfect director! I just ran into so and so. blah blah blah. Hey, guess what, I’m a big actor! Look at the great big actor on the stage! I yell the loudest! Look at me!

once I was through with all that, I hightailed it to Halo for a differen’t kind of pretentious crowd. Hipsters. I got there and realized I had no cash to get in and the ATM wasn’t working so I worked out this deal with someone where she’d pay for my entrance and then I’d buy her a drink. She said not to worry about it and handed me 5 bucks. Only in Canada. Later on in the night someone surprised me with a random compliment about my hair. Good work stranger. Way to boost my self-confidence into the normal range.
That’s not to say that there aren’t people in my life that pay me swell compliments. Nice ass, hey faggot, y’know. But the random compliment from a stranger is pretty nice. In fact, while in Winnipeg I thought of this great way to make people’s days by paying them “no strings attached” compliments. you look for nothing in return, you pay it and wish them a nice day.

Mark was kind enough to draw some amazing characters for the cartoon so I spent most of Saturday getting those into the computer and programmed into the show. He supplied me with a Bruce Banner that can turn into the Hulk, an Anime girl complete with gigantic knockers, and Quint from Jaws.

Sunday was a relaxing day that ended with a game of Hero Clicks.

It involves little superhero action figures that you do battle with, of course using dice. What nerd game would be complete without dice. mark put together a ragtag group of Canadian superheros, Jacob pieced together an unstoppable force, and myself, I went with the classic random assortment of characters that get their asses kicked before anyone else.

I moved into another room that night. So now instead of the zombie, I have skeletons.
This is who I look at if I am on my back.

And this is my friend to the right of me.

I had to get up yesterday around 9am to head over to Fringe Headquarters to get my artist package. I then got to fill out a bunch of forms while cranking up on caffeine. One group of forms is a set of comp sheets. You have to fill one out for each show with the password you will be using. Not knowing I would be filling this password out ad nauseum at 9 in the morning, I chose “Joe Don Baker is Mittens.”
Monday night was also tech rehearsal for Jacob’s show Montag. it takes the idea of improv having unlimited resources and asks, “what if we had restricted use of these infinite means?” The show is about an entirely different mode of presentation and approach that he has been working on in Austria.
I had to jet early to try to succeed at the impossible, scoring tickets to the sold out Wolf Parade show for 4 of us. It was a task we thought we only had a 3% chance of succeeding at. When we arrived at the club we miraculously got 4 of the last 15 tickets available.

All in all it has been a crazy few days considering the fringe hasn’t even started yet. Steve and Lee get here today, tomorrow is tech and workshops.
Also, I popped my graphic novel cherry. I’m reading one called Walking Dead. It has zombies and takes place outside of the A-T-L.