Posts Tagged ‘iphone’

Audition season

Monday, July 14th, 2008

I’ve obtained a photo of me in my new suit:

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… Dashing.

This past weekend was hectic as a friend was visiting from Edmonton. We ran around the city doing and eating far too much. I performed at Theatresports and it was okay, although the energy was a bit weird in a way we couldn’t quite explain afterwards. I also attended what was hopefully my last wedding this summer… it was beautiful and the ceremony was (mercifully, in the summer heat without air conditioning) about the shortest I’ve ever seen.

My attempts at getting the iPhone have failed miserably so far. I went on launch day only to witness a line of several hundred people that apparently was taking as long as six hours for people to get through, and I was having none of that (although I did know three people in the line who were apparently much more dedicated than myself). I thought I stood a decent shot this morning as I returned from dropping my friend off at the airport… but after an hour and a half in line and being second to the front I was informed that they were all out, which was quite a bit infuriating as they kept insisting they didn’t know how many they had left but when the final answer is sixteen they are either deliberately misleading you or grossly incompetent. There’s talk that they might be getting more by Wednesday. My patience is wearing thin, though… I’m sick of my Ocean.

I grabbed a bunch of pictures taken from the last few hours of the Improvathon and added them to my gallery. Unfortunately I don’t have a more complete selection available. I’m hoping to get galleries online of other shows I’ve done as well… Damn Yankees, Urinetown and the like. Dredging up photos is hard, though.

I was feeling kind of ill today but I think I’m better now. It’s probably from all the sun, food and activity over the weekend. My stomach still hurts a bit though… bleagh.

We’ve been having some beautiful weather. I hope it lasts a while longer.

It’s audition season, and I have an audition every week for the next three weeks (including this one). Depending on how I do at them, I may have three callbacks as well in the final week. I’m also pre-invited to a callback in August. It’s all so much stuff… I’m almost as scared of getting cast as I am of not getting cast.

Dan.

Bet on the wrong horse

Friday, June 27th, 2008

I wish I had something more ceremonious around which to mark this turn of events… my landmark 300th post would’ve been coming up a few months from now, and the fourth anniversary of my starting a blog was only a few months ago. As it happened it was just time for me to switch hosting companies, and when I did I took the opportunity to switch to new blogging software. BBlog served me as well as I suppose it could, but as blogging software goes it’s long-dead now and buried in an undead zombie graveyard overflowing with comment spammers, and it was driving me seriously batty. Sometimes you just bet on the wrong horse, ya know?

So I’ve restored my old blog and you can access it from the links at the right, but I’ve shut down new comments and it doesn’t exist as anything more than archival of what once was. Long live WordPress…! (At least I hope so.) Please be patient with me as I figure out the kinks of this new system.

In other news, I saw WALL-E today. I had every expectation of it being like other Pixar epics: beautiful and heartwrenching. I was not disappointed. *shakes fist at Pixar*

As the geese go through their disgusting adolescence, a reprieve comes in the form of a family of ducks that’s moved into the area at work… a mother and the most adorable little hatchlings that I caught on my cameraphone as I edged my way closer and closer to them on my belly in the grass, mosquitoes and goosepoop be damned.

On the subject of my phone, I mentioned in my last post on my former blog how I was considering getting the new iPhone… well it seems that decision has now been cinched for me, as Helio has announced its acquisition by Virgin Mobile. Virgin is the company whose billionaire playboy owner/CEO Richard Branson called net neutrality a load of bollocks, so I’m perfectly happy allowing his purchase of my wireless carrier to be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. Come July, say hello, iPhone!

Dan.