Austin Improv

Thanks for these -

Jumping into it next week. Apparently some teachers do leave actual activities and lesson plans, but these will go into my back pocket for when/if they are needed.

I won't tell them it is improv... just a new way to review classroom material.

Has anyone used improv games as a substitute teacher?

The thought of subbing scares me more than my first improv class or first skydive. Seriously. I can't wait to start! But I want to arm myself.

So, what games do you think would work for classrooms of recalcitrant kids, especially older smart ...

I know I haven't been an active part of the improv community here forever (and was really mostly just a recidivist student for years) but I still think you all are a great group of people -- and once an improviser, always an improviser, right?

So, I am exercising my "usta-be" status to post this ...

Hey again! Anyone know of any dog aficionados who want to house sit for five days in mid-February?

We provide:
* food
* beer or other adult or G-rated beverages
* two very sweet dogs
* usual comforts of home - washer/dryer, central air/heat, TV, DVD, wireless, etc.
* a little money, too

East ...

That "whatwasthatbook" livejournal forum is amazing. Took all of three replies for someone to know what story I was talking about.

"The Murderer" by Ray Bradbury
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murderer

(1953; man that guy sure saw it coming, didn't he?)

good find, "The Year," -- I read it here http://henrykuttner.bravehost.com/Kuttner,%20Henry%20-%20Year%20Day.html

same themes for sure. Good story.

but not the story I am thinking of. The one I am thinking of was not so... complex? rich? I remember it reading more matter-of-fact. And I think the ...

Those livejournal links are pitiful! How do those people think they are ever going to get useful information with such vague ramblings.... "I think it had the word 'violet' in it... or maybe it was lavender.."

oh, wait.

:oops:

heh.

Brockman, if that is the story I will be very surprised, since ...

Hi guys --

Scratch resurfacing here... thinking about a few of you guys out there who I know are sci fi aficionados...

I am desperately, obsessively trying to find the name of a story I read in some 1950's collection years ago. I think the book was one of the 1950's paperback sci fi short story ...

I seriously could not disagree with this more. A crap ending can't ruin a show for me.

Going deep ... shows, like life, are series of moments. An ending is just another moment, and moments are what I remember; be they at the beginning, the middle or the end of the show (or at dinner afterward ...

Well, damn, pull me out from my retreat here why dontcha. Been just lurking silently lately but this blew it...

The Proposition in Cambridge, MA, sometime between 1975 and 1978. I was a little hippie freak child, avoiding school and going hither and yon in the greater Boston area to odd theater ...

ATA is a good group, but the cat went downhill fast. I ended up getting a friend to bring their cat carrier over last night, we lured it in and brought it to Town Lake Animal Center. I'm pretty sure it was past the point of no return but at least it got a last supper of tuna, fresh water, and a ...

You know, the kind that work with seven rescue groups and drive around trapping and neutering and feeding strays and are kind of obsessed and weird but do save a lot of feline lives, bless their pointy little heads?

Without going into the gory details, one of the many semi-feral cats on my street ...

The Museum of Natural and Artifical Ephemerata (not far from SVT) - great silly bizarre fun presented with deadpan serious showmanship. Sit in the elevated school desk in the yard and feel real tall.

The Elisabet Ney Musuem in Hyde Park - often overlooked, nice little place; interesting character ...

uh oh. on my way!

OK, so someone refresh my not-so-fresh memory -- Maestro call time for warmups is around what time?