Austin Improv

I'm game. Orf, decades of experience, and I like to warm up with who/what/who/where. Or by just shooting the breeze with everybody and making up nonsense.

Also, Michael Joplin and Ben Masten would like to play too. You know who they are. If they don't get around to signing up by themselves, please ...

At last-- I finally have a Saturday night open!
I think a Maestro with Justin & Jessica is just what I need. Right after I run the Keep Austin Weird 5K earlier in the evening. What a night it should be!
Hopefully there's a space for a wily veteran improvisor (thought not as "veteran" as Lampe) who ...

Hey improvisors who also like beer (and I know that's a fair portion of you),
A limited supply of Orf Brewing's "Oocheemama" Asian white ale is going on tap at the Whip-In this coming Saturday. Please come drink some!

It should be on tap by early afternoon (4:00-ish, is my guess) and it will flow ...

I've been outside of the main performance circuit lately, and consequently I am a bit rusty at my improvisational scene work. I need to woodshed some scene work with some other fine folks, while a watchful eye calls out the rookie mistakes I'm making just because I'm so out of practice.

Thankfully ...

After resisting it for as long as possible (for various reasons), I suddenly find myself needing a Facebook page. Specifically, I need it for my business, Orf Brewing. I'm relatively tech-savvy, but I don't have the time to fiddle and tinker with all the B.S. on Facebook to learn how to set up ...

I'll post this in Tech Talk too, since it is computer-ish in nature, but maybe someone in the general peanut gallery can help me out.

After resisting it for as long as possible (for various reasons), I suddenly find myself needing a Facebook page. Specifically, I need it for my business, Orf ...

There is a discipline that falls under the general realm of counseling known as Hakomi that my wife Elana has been studying. She is in need of two guinea pigs--I mean, practice subjects sometime in the next week or two.

Hakomi is a very cool means of helping people figure out their own internal ...

DELAYED!
The brewmasters have decided to let the beer age a couple more days. We'd rather serve up a good beer late than a not-quite-ready beer early. (Sort of the anti-Microsoft business model.) If you were planning to drop by the Draught House on Wednesday, THANKS! Please stop by on Friday or ...

So, no improv show at the Draught House due to the last-minute-ness of it and everybody having rehearsals and the like, but the beer will still go on. Drop on by after your show/rehearsal/job/therapy session and knock back a cold Orf brew! Hella Copper should come online around 5 or 6 pm. I'll be ...

Ladies and gents, I am quite happy to announce that this coming Wednesday evening, a mere two days from this initial posting, a batch of ORF BEER will be ON TAP AT THE DRAUGHT HOUSE PUB!

I did a collaboration with the brewer there, and we came up with a copper ale that we're calling HELLA COPPER ...

Buy mine! No, really. If you think you would like to one day own a place but think you could never afford to buy a house, take a read here anyway.

We're about to put our south Austin 78704 duplex on the market. I decided to give the improv community the early scoop.

Here's the deal: It's a 3 ...

I have friends in town from NYC this weekend who insist they will only come give money to the Hideout if I am performing. So I guess I'm aiming to do me some Maestro. Count me in with all the other improvisin' fools!

Critically acclaimed monologist Mike Daisey brings his latest work, "The Last Cargo Cult" to Austin for two nights, Tuesday & Wednesday, Sept. 21-22, at 8 pm.

Performances will be at the McCullough Theatre, next to Bass Concert Hall on the campus of U.T. Student tickets are available for $10.

I ...

A friend working on this video ask me to post this for her.

Looking for Hispanic and African-American women and men (20s to 40) to be in a Darden Smith music video we're shooting on Monday in Austin. It's based on Darden's song "Mortal Coil." We're shooting in high-contrast B&W with a professional ...

I'm no expert, but I think that we can kill anyone who presents a clear and present danger to the security of the United States or Americans or certain American interests abroad.

Is this the case? Maybe. Maybe not.


Ummm... I'm going to have to go with "Not."

Our laws define only two ways of ...