University of Northern Iowa
This was a really great show that we got to perform with comedian Rob O'Reilly! Make sure you check out his stuff; it's pretty funny. Other highlight: they served snacks!
Also, Jonathan decided it was a good idea to rip a phone book in half.
I bought a Flip Camera right before the show, so it makes it easy to create fun little videos like this, so you can look forward to more of it in the future!
Labels: awesome, characters, food, Road Stories, shows, Videos
Knox College
Knox College is one of those schools that takes the "Liberal" in Liberal Arts College to heart. It's the kind of school that has a football team whose players can't remember the last time they won a game (yet somehow sponsored by Nike), but boasts an intramural frisbee team that will destroy you with amazing hippie athleticism the likes of which you didn't know existed. The girls on the activities board had entertaining reactions to the stunts in our show. They were terrified of my juggling props, especially the knife. Pre-show, I was trying to demonstrate that it's not sharp or fearsome and held it up to my neck, at which point one of them about had a heart attack due to her complete phobia of anything having to do with necks... Even talking about something touching anyone's neck makes her squirm and go pale. I made a bunch of inside jokes during the show for these girls because I thought their reactions were funny.... Jonathan's contortion tricks made them cover their eyes... what can ya do?
Labels: awesome, Road Stories, shows
University of Evansville
That's right, the University of EVANsville! Freaking amazing show except for one thing: my shirt got stolen! Yeah, some girl stole my shirt! If you have seen either my solo show or The ShowOff Show, you know that the rules of my skateboard catapult trick are that every time I miss the trick I have to remove a piece of clothing. Most of the time, it takes me four attempts and I have to take off my long sleeved shirt, at which point I use the oportunity to wrap it around a spectator's neck, and then towel whip another guest, and ocassionaly I throw the shirt at a third audience member. I have ALWAYS gotten the shirt back... but this time the girl kept it. I didn't realize she had claimed it as a trophy until after she was long gone... Oh well, what can ya do?
Labels: awesome, cold, costumes, shows, whining, your mom
Rhode Island School of Design
So, Jonathan and I got a day off. I spent the day with my mom and visiting my home town of Columbia, MO. Jonathan went home to Lancaster, PA, to see his wife and to see Bill Cosby live in concert. Because he is still live, Bill Cosby, but won't be forever. On Sunday, we converged in Providence, Road Island, to perform the orientation night entertainment at RISD, which is supposedly the best design school in the world, although you wouldn't know it from the remarkably boring school hat they gave me.
So, Phil, the director of Residents' Life at RISD, picked us up from the Providence airport and gave us a short tour of the city on the way to the college, complete with colorful insights like the story of their Russian sub, which they converted to a museum, where U571 was filmed, and which sank one particularly rainy night; the most haunted street in the world, which was built on a graveyard after all the graves had been moved; Brown University, and Market Square, where they used to sell real live slaves. Phil also took us to a famous local hot dog eatery, Spike's. We declined the house's 6-dog eating challenge that, if successfully completed, puts your picture on the wall of fame for infinity or whatever. 6 of these dogs is a tall order. Or maybe I mean long order.
Now, RISD is special for more than its top-notch reputation as a design school. The mascot is a giant penis named Scrotie. Scrotie came into being a decade or so after the school's notoriously horrible intramural hockey team, humorously named "the Nads". We even received t-shirts from the school with the proud slogan "GO NADS!" Members of the team are not even required to know how to skate, and the school loses almost every game by embarrassing numbers. RISD does have one other intramural sports team, a basketball team named "the Balls", which supposedly loses most of its games by about 70 points. Art students are not known for their athletic prowess. From a student on the school's lawn, I also bought a student made RISD t-shirt which features Scrotie in a moment of excellence (see pictures).
Naturally, the show was amazing, which was fortunate, because a couple of special friends of mine came down from Burlington, Vermont, to see it, and it would have been a major shame if we had bombed.
We got some pretty awesome pictures of this show thanks to Amanda Chang, a student at RISD. Thanks, Amanda! Labels: awesome, downtime, hot dog, penis, shows
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