Thursday, November 28, 2013

Thanksgiving

Sorry for the lack of updates, to all two of you who read this blog. I've been waiting vainly for life to "calm down" as people keep assuring me it eventually will -- maybe 2015 will be a better year for finding moments for calm reflection amid the chaos, assuming I can use the rest of 2014 to get a head start on said chaos by pulling one long continuous all-nighter from now until December 31.

But it's good to remember that there's a ton to be thankful for, most of all that my sister is in town and about to join my wife and my in-laws and me for an incredible meal of way too much food. Also that none of us is in prison or homeless and that we're privileged enough to join in the big victory party of white Europeans vs. everyone they stole their land from without having to be white Europeans ourselves. (Huzzah!)

As far as the Arthur's Awesome Attempt to Kickstart His Media Career side goes, there's plenty to be thankful for there too. First there's the awesome indie film Cleanland that I was honored enough to have a small part in, for which there's a new trailer:


I have always wanted to be in a movie trailer where one of the beats is my horrified face staring directly into the camera, and now I can die happy.

We're also close to wrapping up the Erfworld.com epilogue videos that I've been voicing the narration for, and despite the many late nights I can't be happier with the experience it's been narrating such a weird, offbeat, creative Web series. I know it's almost impossible to follow if you haven't been reading it from the beginning -- but that's just a reason to go back to the beginning and binge-read it now, before things get Really Serious in the climactic chapter to come.

Here's me channeling two of Erfworld's most badassly eloquent characters in the second-to-last of these Erfworld videos:

http://www.erfworld.com/2013/11/epilogue-24-tramennis-and-charlie/

And finally, any Clevelanders who aren't still in a food coma or trampled to death in a Wal-Mart should make Black Friday plans to see me once again go for the gold at the Cleveland Monologue Battle. It's their one-year anniversary, it's an awesome event and I hope to still be performing there at their two-year anniversary. Happy Turkey Day, and see you at Epic Lounge tomorrow!

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Friday, November 15, 2013

No stand-up from Arthur tomorrow night; Erfworld update, though

Life's been crazy lately, but I've still been remiss in not posting this latest Erfworld update with my vocal stylings as warlord Parson Gotti and his not-so-loyal-recently minion Sizemore:

http://www.erfworld.com/2013/11/epilogue-23-parson-and-sizemore/

Sadly, part of the craziness means that I won't be able to attend the Slim & Jumbo's event tomorrow that I recently advertised here. Apologies to all... one of you that read this and were planning to go. I'll keep you all posted on what's going on in Arthurworld.

Friday, November 1, 2013

Ahoy Clevelanders who will be here in November to welcome me back from my Jeopardy adventure...

So, for everyone who enjoys seeing me be hilarious onstage (hopefully intentionally, sometimes tragically unintentionally) here's another opportunity for you: I'm going to be in the bustling metropolis of Garrettsville, OH at a benefit comedy competition.

The competition is partially based on audience response, so I need all the friendly faces I can get. Pencil it in for 7:00 pm Nov. 16th at Slim &Jumbo's, 8101 Main St. in Garrettsville if you can!

Note: This will be directly after the emotional whirlwind I'm sure my Jeopardy experience will be, so I will either be incredibly elated or deeply dejected and either way have to deliberately suppress all outward signs of that emotion to avoid breaking my Jeopardy NDA. Which will be interesting.
Before I completely disappear down the Jeopardy! preparation rabbit hole, here's another recent Erfworld ep I voiced that gets a little darker and more emotional than most:

http://www.erfworld.com/2013/10/epilogue-20-jillian-and-ansom/

And here's one that just posted, containing a major dun-dun-DUNNH! moment:

http://www.erfworld.com/2013/11/epilogue-21-vinny/