Dan Posluns

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

… 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.

I’ve been tinkering with this blog and its features, and have tricked it out with a bunch of plug-ins and even already created my own (for the random tagline at the top of this blog). I’m considering developing a plug-in that would let me make private, friends-only posts a la LiveJournal but I don’t know yet if it’d be worth the effort.

I’ve installed a plug-in that lets me embed photos from my gallery… let’s try it out with the ducks from last post:

Hm, not bad. And so very cute!

We’ve finally broken into the hot, hot summer weather that I both welcome and deplore. It’s gorgeous out but it’s hard to keep my condo from getting stuffy without air conditioning.

This past weekend was a good one for improv. Saturday I did three shows in a row… the first was kind of mediocre but a good lesson in the importance of reading your audience and playing to what they’re looking for, and not just going through the motions of your repertoire. The second was another Spoken longform, and easily one of the more successful and entertaining ones I’ve been involved in. Then Theatresports that night wasn’t exceptional but was just plain fun both for the performers and the audience, which is all anyone can ask for.

Sunday I had rehearsal with SecondStory for their improv show, and I was given numerous opportunities to show some leadership and for us to actually work instead of just play, which was nice. Then that evening we had the Dust-Up, an exciting new monthly event where improvisers from all around Seattle are randomly thrown into teams together and given the chance to do whatever form of improv they please, so long as it’s a form they’ve invented right there on the spot. Extremely cool.

I managed to get a DVD of the production of Urinetown that I was in. I want to share clips from it but I don’t think I can safely/legally post it on YouTube. I am looking into a way around this…

Dan.