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  • Two Ideas

    These ideas have rather caught my attention:

  • Dubious Honor, But See The Show!

    Well, I’m not quite sure what it says about my not-quite-nascent acting career (they said I was good at “vacant”), but I’ve been cast to play the title role (at least, a role from part of the title) in Waiting for Godot Baggins at tomorrow night’s Bad Play Project.

    There will be minimal, if any, rehearsal for the series of short one-act plays tomorrow. Tryouts were tonight. These plays are going to be bad—but hopefully they will be awesomely bad. It’s $5 and the show starts at 7:30pm at the Provo Theatre Company theater on 100E 100N in Provo. My roommate, Gabe, and his girlfriend, Sarah, are also going to be part of the cast of this and other plays during the show. Come!

    Update: Things keep getting dubiouser and dubiouser… I’ve also gotten a part in “Crime & Punishument & Teletubbies: The Musical” and “How Are You? Hated”. In “Crime & Punishment & Teletubbies” you get to see Tinky Winky (Gabe Proulx) plot and carry out the violent and pointless death of that leech, Dipsy (Josh Hansen). How does the madness end? It seems to involve Sarah, as a dinosaur. A notorious dinosaur of color that is not blue or red but is maybe somewhere in between….

    The latter play has me and another person die onstage in totally unique ways 15 times each. You might consider that alone to be your five dollars worth.

  • The Spotlight

    I answered these questions for a “spotlight” section in the ward newsletter. Understandably, my lengthy responses were pared down prior to publication. Here I give you the original, uncut spotlight. I’m quite proud of it. Here goes….

    Where are you from?
    Kennewick, Washington — the bone dry, brown, not-ever-green part of the Evergreen State.

    If you are still in school, what are you studying and how far along in your program are you?
    I graduated in Linguistics and this fall will be starting the Master’s program in Computer Science at BYU.
    If you work, where do you work and what does your work entail?
    For the most part I’m an unemployed lazy bum. However, my dad has been occasionally paying me to do some editing work for him.
    If you had the opportunity to serve, where was your mission?

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    What are your favorite pastimes?

    Reading books that nobody’s ever heard of, writing, cooking for my dinner group, being the leader/ridiculous figurehead of the Curiously Poetic Altoids poetry club (meets Thursdays at 9pm in the lounge, or in apt 304 if the lounge is occupied — all are welcome, even if they don’t feel particularly poetic!), undertaking random computer programming tasks that I scarcely understand, and the eating of pizza.

    Do you have a book or books you would recommend, or particularly enjoy?

    I recently enjoyed reading “With Fire and Sword” by Henrik Sienkewicz which chronicles the civil war in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th century, and just last week finished reading “Silence” by Shusaku Endo which is about a Portuguese Catholic priest trying to serve Christians in Japan in the environment of intense persecution that prevailed there (also) in the 17th century. Currently I’m working on “The Knight Triumphant” which is about the role of the knight in medieval warfare in Europe. It has lots of pictures 😉