more about my tod's

hanging with my @fluevog little shoe addiction.


in march, i picked up a pair of tod's and my feet are happy. 


of course, admittedly, during this year's international fluevog day, i have added two more pairs of vogs since my early may 2012 count - 
. mini | qtee
. angels | supervog
- but more on that at a later date.

thanks, again, to jeff ... just wanted once again to thank jeff at the las vegas store. i have not (yet) added another pair of tod's because i just have not (yet) sought them out, however, i do remember the two other pairs that i tried -

thick sole, black patent leather loafers
sporty sneaker style oxfords

meanwhile, my tod's has been out and about in cubeopolis,

and this cubester had a fun day 

with polka dots, ribbon, and artwork.

is it time (yet) to do 

some hunting for tod's?

congrats MUT Improv E!

our short form #improv show at @madeuptheatre (on web, facebook, yelp) yesterday evening was totally AWESOME.

our May 20th Improv E post-show WOO-HOO!

memories ... for me, a few fun games' (with list over here) memories include (but definitely aren't limited to) -

• Story/Instruction Manual - a manual for "ball" - named harold or harolda ... LOVELY!
• New Choice -  chasing a weasel ... chasing an antelope ... LOVED IT!
• Replay - mary and contrary mary, way to take "recess" into the world of romantic comedy and horror! ... TOO FUN!
• Boo-Yay! - fun suggestions ... especially enjoyed the "glasses" exchange.
• Love Song - singing about inka who likes homework and wants to be a neurologist!
• Playground Insults -  well, well, well ... "horrendous gorilla" didn't quite come to fruition but it was lots of fun!
• Blind Line - having fun with the suggestion "lobster" and AIDS (uhm ... a bit of a wtf?! moment, and that's how improv goes!)
• 185 - great way to wrap-up a show (... and oh! the suggestion of "engineer" definitely had a memorable punchline!)

see a SHOW and/or take a CLASS at Made Up Theatre!

thanks, again, made up theatre 

and fellow improvisors

for a fun time performing 

for friends and family!

short form #improv

made up theatre's level e improvisors (this evening!)

TONIGHT ... at @madeuptheatre (on web, facebook, yelp), our graduation from level E will showcase tidbits of what we've learned during our short form improv experience ... think of it as our foray into a kind of  "whose line is it anyway?" experience
(kinda sorta)

• where: made up theatre - 3392 seldon court, which is off of osgood road (near fry's).
• when: sunday, tonight
• door opens at 7:30 pm.
• show begins at 8:00 pm (pretty promptly).
• the show will run about an hour.
• how much: $5 per person (for convenience, cash only, please). 

singing and insults and stories and more -
quickie preview about tonight's show ... 

• Story/Instruction Manual - A pointing game where we are either telling a story together or reading an instruction manual together.
  
  

  

  meet sean
• New Choice - A scene is being done. At anytime, the host can blow a whistle and say new choice, and the person who just said something has to say something different.
   
• Replay - A set-up scene is done. After that emotions, genres, and/or accents are chosen from the audience. The scene is redone but with these suggestions incorporated into the scene (one at at time). 1 replay may be the emotions of Joy/Anger/Lust, the next may be a Western, and the next may be Shakespeare.
   
• Boo-Yay! - Two people start. One person is YAY and one person is BOO. The Yay says something positive about the suggestion, and the BOO says something negative.
  
  

  

  meet bobby

• Love Song - Bobby will play the guitar, and we will sing a love song together.
   
• Playground Insults - Two teams. A guesser from each team goes outside, and the host gets multi-syllabic words for both teams. Using mime, the performers try to get the guessers to guess the "insult" through by pantomiming the words.
   
• Blind Line - Everyone playing leaves the room. Lines of dialogue are collected from the audience and written on strips of paper. The performers do a scene and every so often read a line and incorporate it into their scene.
   
• 185 - "185 *BLANKS* walk into a bar, bartender says "We don't serve *BLANKS,* so the 185 *BLANKS* say PUNCHLINE. 

committing to bold choices and fun!

twenty-five six ...

... and counting my @fluevog

@Fluevog Radio | CBC (purple)

retail therapy ... it was my moment of retail therapy yesterday, and i was just wanting to see some smiling faces at the haight street store.

26 ... that's the count with this pair of purple CBCs, which i'll be wearing with the teal laces to cubeopolis tomorrow (err ... today, thursday) .


and the other pairs? ...  "where are the other 25 pairs?" you ask. whether or not you're asking, visit them among the cobbled blog posts. check them out at fluevog.com.

• 25th pair in this post

• adriana | nuni
• 24th-1st pair in this post





• operetta | brightman
• bellevue | etta place
• faith | certitude
• prepares | merit
• mini | zaza
• another day | monday
• adrians | alli
• minis | elif
• wonders | kiliminjaros 
• hope | promise
• prepares | guide
• baroque | ruben
• mini | gorgeous
• angel | ?
• operetta | julia
• operetta | malibran 
• truth | pilgrim
• frontier hi | calamity
• together hi | benatar
• angels | michael
• wearever | gracias
• bellevues | pearl hart
• operetta | malibran (black)
• fellowship | kathy

accessories, too!

week 4 at MUT Level E #improv

MUT's level E improvisors

OVER HERE is what we've learned 

through week 3 in Level E with Made Up Theatre

@madeuptheatre (on web, facebook, yelp). 

what about week 4?! ... we learned five more short-from improv games and refreshed with two games we learned the past weeks.

mixing it up ... for our fourth class, sean flew solo keeping us moving through our games. class was a great mix - quick, short games mixed in with "scene" games. good times, with a few challenging times, and that's what makes it FUN! here are the games we played in our fourth class on april 22, as well as the other three weeks before.

• our fourth class

  

  meet sean
  

  
  

• dirty hand randy
• scene replay (kinda how it's described here)
• home shopping network (a repeat ... so a few folks who weren't at week 3 could learn the game)
• foreign movie  (kinda how it's described here)
• 185 (a repeat ... because it's fun)
• last action joke 
• object freeze  (kinda how it's described here)

• our third week



"A -B -C-B," so says Bobby





• home shopping network (kinda how it's described here)
• sound effects (kinda how it's described here)
• siamese twin
• world's worst ... (kinda how it's described here)
• love song (yes ... a bit of a repeat from week 1 with a little tweak)
• our second class
• chain murder (like LCD)
• irish drinking song (like irish drinking song) 
• what are you doing?
• new choice (like other choice)
• say it differently
• 185 (as in "185 ____ walk into a bar, ...)
• blind lines
• forward reverse
• our first class

  

  visit made up theatre
  

  
  
• story / instruction manual
• cassanova / pick up
• love song
• playground insults
• moving bodies

OUR NEXT PERFORMANCE ... our graduation from level E will showcase what we've learned during our short form improv experience. save the date . . .

• where: made up theatre - 3392 seldon court, which is off of osgood road (near fry's). 
• when: sunday, may 20
• what time: 
• door opens at 7:30 pm.
• show begins at 8:00 pm (pretty promptly).
  the show will run about an hour.
• how much: $5 per person (for convenience, cash only, please). 

committing to make bold choices...

join us at our performance in several weeks

MUT Level E #improv ...

MUT's level E improvisors

short-form, indeed ... after a year of long-form improv, we will be performing short-form improv in five weeks. (woo-hoo!)

and whether it's long-form or short-form, i am STILL LOVIN' @madeuptheatre (on web, facebook, yelp).

three weeks into our short-form improv fun ... here are the games we have learned (or revisited) to date
(of the MANY(!) short form games listed on the interweb). AND we have a couple of games where we sang -

• our first class



"A -B -C-B," so says Bobby

• story / instruction manual
• cassanova / pick up
• love song
• playground insults
• moving bodies
• our second class
• chain murder (like LCD)
• irish drinking song (like irish drinking song) 
• what are you doing?
• new choice (like other choice)
• say it differently
• 185 (as in "185 ____ walk into a bar, ...)
• blind lines
• forward reverse
• our third week
• home shopping network (kinda how it's described here)
• sound effects (kinda how it's described here)
• siamese twin
• world's worst ... (kinda how it's described here)
• love song (yes ... a bit of a repeat from week 1 with a little tweak)

visit made up theatre

meet sean

and the love song tweak? well, rather than singing our lines in the order that we were standing (e.g., one after the other), we were focused on sean who pointed to the next victim WHOMEVER in WHATEVER order. 

#31dayreset: catch-up day 4

thanks @happyblackwoman for my day 3: write a love letter to your future self. now onto the next assignment.
(check out 31 days over here)

day 4: identify your values. for this exercise, it is the precursor to the next several days, when i'll develop a personal mission statement. for day 4, it's about the first step - identifying my values, what matters most to me, things that mean a lot to me in my life, what i care about. to do so -

• list . . . take time (~15-min) for a free-for-all list of all the things that mean a lot to me in my life, all the things i care about
• choose . . . from my list, choose my "top 10"

as a side note: this once again reminded me of a december reverb10 prompt. the first reverb10 prompt was one word - encapsulate the year 2010 in one word. explain why you are choosing that word. now imagine it is one year from today, what would you like the word for 2011 to be?

in my one word response/blog post, i included my 1994 "epiphany" that resulted in mission, vision, values statements. since then, i have revisited them just a few times to tweak my words. for my 31 day reset, i will work fresh and not necessarily just copy from what i've had. who knows what new and different thoughts may emerge?!

reset 10 ... well, my top 10 = reset 10 came from a free-for-all list of 45 words that i wrote in my 31 day reset notebook while listening to my theme song live your life by yuna. these reset 10 will be part of day 5's next step in developing my personal mission statement. in no special order other than alphabetical, the words i have chosen are -

• authenticity
• community (sense of, e.g., family, friends, neighborhood, etc.)
• curiosity
• equity
• foresight
• forthright
• imagination (update) expression (conceiving of and sharing possibility thinking)
• love (update) connecting (establishing loving, deeper connections with family, friends, etc.)
• self-awareness (update) identity (discovering one's self through relfection)
• service

(just chugging along on

blog-journal synching for 31 day reset)