Austin Improv

The 4th Season of the Heroes' presentation of "Start Trekkin'" debuts this Saturday, September 8th, at 8:00 in the Hideout Upstairs. Fantastic fun for Trekkers and non-Trekkies alike. A great cast, a great tech crew, cool effects and music, and several obviously fake rocks.

The show will run through mid-November--but hey, spread the word, come out Saturday, and help us pack the house for opening night.

Live long...

www.hideouttheatre.com for tix

We should be on the cover of the DT Weekend supplement in the Daily Texan this Thursday. And we taped some stuff for Arts Eclectic this morning that should run in a couple weeks. So we're doing okay on press so far, but we would love to have friends and improv compatriots in the audience this Saturday (or any weekend for that matter).

Just thought of something. You guys should drop some post cards at Game Stops and comic book stores. That would hit your demographic directly.

There is one of each of them over at Dobie Mall.

Already on it, I also plan on hitting Austin books, Thor's Hammer, Dragon's Lair and several others tomorrow over my lunch break. And also the Engineering buildings and dorms on campus and every other geek demographic in town. I might even personally drive one out to the Fat Man's ranch or send one to Britannia Manor.

Geeks of the world unite.


Side geek story: Today in a meeting with tech people we were going around the table and introducing ourselves, what projects we were currently working on, and how big a (tech) geek we were. When it came to me, I said "I'm Wes, blah blah blah, as for 'am I a geek?' Well, I'm doing a two-month run of fully improvised star trek episodes starting this Saturday night. I'll let you read into that whatever level of geekitude you want." Then three people asked me how to get tickets.
Moral of the story: Expect nerds.

Wesley wrote:Already on it, I also plan on hitting Austin books, Thor's Hammer, Dragon's Lair and several others tomorrow over my lunch break. And also the Engineering buildings and dorms on campus and every other geek demographic in town. I might even personally drive one out to the Fat Man's ranch or send one to Britannia Manor.

I've already hit Austin Books with postcard flyers. Figured I'd go back there and to Dragon's Lair tomorrow. Neither are too far from where I live now. Because of Labor Day, tomorrow is new comics day instead of Wednesday. That means both places will be packed, along with any other comic book stores in town. Although, those are the two most popular.

Someone should go to Bird's Barbershop on South Lamar. I went to new branch on Burnett last week.

This show is gonna ROCK!!

Are there free tickets available at the Hideout?

I got about 8 flyers up over lunch, but one place wouldn't let me post a flyer (they don't have a place to). But I bet I could bribe them into letting me put one in their window with some free tickets.
(And we should give them out to all the other comic shop places, too, for the staff. Not only might they be cooler about putting up flyers and leaving them up, but they might talk up the show to their patrons if they've seen it. Flyers are nice, but word of mouth from your trusted geek-dealer is worth its weight in gold. Trust me, I used to collect and I'd buy whatever those gods among dorks recommended.)

Whose sexy, sexy eyes are those I see?

Mention on the Daily Texan front page and apparently in the DT Weekend, though the slacker ass students at UT still have their weekend link pointing to May 3rd.

Sweetness!

You can see a tiny thumbnail of the cover if you go here:

http://www.dtweekend.com/archives/get_i ... e=20070906

Wesley wrote:Are there free tickets available at the Hideout?

I got about 8 flyers up over lunch, but one place wouldn't let me post a flyer (they don't have a place to). But I bet I could bribe them into letting me put one in their window with some free tickets.
(And we should give them out to all the other comic shop places, too, for the staff. Not only might they be cooler about putting up flyers and leaving them up, but they might talk up the show to their patrons if they've seen it. Flyers are nice, but word of mouth from your trusted geek-dealer is worth its weight in gold. Trust me, I used to collect and I'd buy whatever those gods among dorks recommended.)

I also thought about asking for free tickets to at least go to an employee or two where the flyers are posted. Wes, what places did you go to so I don't copy your path?

As for the "gods among dorks" thing, eh. Eh, I say.

Wesley wrote:Whose sexy, sexy eyes are those I see?

Chris Allen is a sexy beast.

Over lunch today I hit:
I Luv Video (Airport)
Half Price Books (183 and Anderson)
Half Price Books (Parmer and MoPac)
The Anime Shop (at the corner of Airport and Lamar)
Thor's Hammer (on 183)
Rudy's BBQ (on 183)
Kerby Lane (on 183)
Every floor of my office building.

So my work building is taken care of, don't worry about hitting it. I got it under control.

I avoided Going farther South than Airport (Half Price, Austin Books, Dragon's Lair, I Luv by Campus, and Spiderhouse were on my initial list) because you said you could get it.

I plan on hitting up campus (engineering, math, and science buildings, and geek dorms) at least before the show on Saturday, hopefully tomorrow.

And there is a ton more pick-up stuff I can do around this area and down near where I live, I'm sure.

yes, Crouch, can we get some AIC tix? that's a great idea, to bribe people. and we want the geeks to come out. maybe we should move this to the ST forum.

troy wrote:yes, Crouch, can we get some AIC tix? that's a great idea, to bribe people. and we want the geeks to come out. maybe we should move this to the ST forum.

But of course. There's quite a few left in the office, I believe.

troy wrote:yes, Crouch, can we get some AIC tix? that's a great idea, to bribe people. and we want the geeks to come out. maybe we should move this to the ST forum.

Oh, I need access to that.

I scanned the pages from the DT Weekend, as best I could:



http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id ... 944&size=l
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id ... 024&size=l
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id ... 139&size=l