Austin Improv

Come to ze jam tonight. I'm taking Kaci to Houston tonight so she can fly out to Germany, but I know that Kareem, Lamb, and Jeff are planning on going.

Come dust off your skills and learn the true zen of the Hat Game.

I was going to drop by.

rumor is this jam is going to be HUGE!!!

It might even BLOW UUUUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPP!!!!!!!!

well jammed everyone. put the hats in danger.

That was an explosively big jam. Awesome.

more details please!

There were over fifteen people there. A few people in the audience. Zach brought his mother who participated in some of the games and was awesome. David Z.'s family was there as well and seemed to have fun. There were a number of faces that I did not see before.

I was only there for the last hour and the games that were played were Four Corners, Word-at-a-Time Expert, The Hat Game, Doppelgangers (which is a genre game that I like to direct) and some line games.

Tomorrow is a great thing to sleep for.

Last night Nadine, Gene, Frank and I went by the last week of Les's class at the Zach Scott and invited his students and their friends to AIC events in general and the jam specifically, so we should have some more people over the next couple weeks.

I had great fun learning and playing the hat game. Afterwards, Jeremy said something about it that I think is very important in the world of Maestro, and he might have gone unheard by some in the cacophany of the large group:

Being a best-2-outta-3 game, it seems important-- in the interest of building suspense for the audience-- that the first person to take the hat lets his or her hat get taken next. That way, the third time is an exciting tiebreaker.

Now that is the way to jam! Lots of people, lots of games and energy, truly not enough oxygen in the green room. Very fun, but we mustn't peter out at the end. That's no good, no petering!