We Should Have Listened to Sarah Connor

I just read Time Magazine's 50 Best Inventions of 2010 article, and mark my words: it's only a matter of time (pardon the pun) before SkyNet comes on line and Terminators start crunching human skulls beneath their steely skeletal feet.

The technology is here. All you've got to do is get some guy named Dyson to put the pieces together, and we could be facing an army of flying, transforming super-strong walking robots that speak English -- capable of deception and able to detect sarcasm, coated in nigh-indestructable material, hidden inside bio-engineered, fast-grown human tissue, bio-fueled by rendered body fat, able to navigate independantly and record everything they see, killing us with blades made of water that can puncture steel. All so they can harvest our energy.

Okay, it gets a little Matrix-y at the end. But you get the idea.

Get ready, people. No fate but what we make!

Blog FAIL

Not to be confused with FAILBlog.

Like many people (including the owner of the blog whose name I would have preferred to use here, I started a blog and failed to maintain it.

However, in the spirit of improv, I'm going to throw my hands up in the air, possibly wave them around as if I just don't care, and start again.

Here goes nothing!

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Improv Wisdom from... Starbucks?

Here's a quote from my last Grande Soy Chai cup:

The Way I See It #76

The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating -- in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life.

-- Anne Morris
Starbucks customer from New York City. She describes herself as an "organization builder, restless American citizen, optimist."

Completely applicable to improv, acting, and creativity in general.

Nice work, Anne Morris. And Starbucks.

Tim Burton's Next Big Hit?

Saw Tim Burton's "Sweeney Todd" last week finally, at our neighborhood speakeasy. Gosh, what a lot of blood-spewing cut throats. (As opposed to Pirates of the Caribbean 3's lot of one-liner-spewing cutthroats...)

Anyway, then we watched the remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the other night [note: is it a "remake" if it has a different name? The old one was called "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". I guess he'd call it a "re-imagining" like he did with the craptastic Planet of the Apes remake. Ugh. Give me Charlton Heston any day. Oh God, did I just say that? I think what I meant was, "Give me Charlton Heston any day in which dystopian future Earths are ruled by apes. Any other day, keep his paws off me (you damned dirty apes)."

Right. So I saw those two movies in close temporal proximity (look at me with the big words today!) and came up with the following:

Un-Scripted Blogs!

Guess what? The Un-Scripted Theater Company now has blogs!

Company members can now create blogs and share their thoughts with the world, and you can let us know what you think! Sort of a two-way conversation. Nice!