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A huge lump of avocado just fell out of my sandwich and rolled down my T-shirt, leaving a disproportionately large streak of green muck all across my torso. I look like I ate this sandiwich while having an epileptic fit.

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Eliza and I saw the documentary “Rize” yesterday which reports on the culture of a type of street dancing in south Los Angeles called “Krumpin.” Part of the story is that krumpin’ rose out of a culture of “clown gangs” in which groups of young black kids would paint clown makeup on their faces and dance and sing — for entertainment or for competition. The clown gangs seemed like a positive and reassuring alternative to gangs for its members. It’s a happy story, and was truly inspiring and compelling.

On the other hand, they’re DRESSED AS CLOWNS. Even though it wasn’t the primary focus of the movie, I was stunned to see how surreal it was to watch groups of [...]

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Our latest five-minute television pilot, Kerry On, was rejected for the Channel 102 screening. But we still love it, so check it out. See the films page or click on one of the links below.

• .mov (Quicktime format) - 25mb
• .mp4 (whatever that is) - 13mb
• .mov (Quicktime 7 — highest resolution) - 27 mb

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Barb Trickett and Brian Watts got married yesterday. Some pictures are contained within. Barb got married in her back yard, which was the same place she’d thrown her annual deck parties for like 15 years. So this was like a slightly more formal deck party, except she and Brian made a lifetime commitment in the middle of it, and there was dancing instead of wiffle ball.

It was very nice, and very Barb in that it was clever and playful and chill. The wedding invitations had stick figure drawings of a bride and groom. For dessert, there was a table of candy which people were welcome to take in plastic bags back to their table [...]

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At this very moment, the most recent song displayed on my “what’s playing on my iTunes” is “Win in the End” from the movie Teen Wolf.

I am the perfect human.

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Man, look at that last entry! Will Hines all blabby-blab about the comic books! Don’t worry, true blog-ievers! I’m still going to wax ineloquently about matters of trivial import via tiny paragraphs!

I just finished reading Volume 4 of The Essential Fantastic Four — which collects issues 60-something through 80-something — back when it was done by Jack Kirby with Stan Lee. So awesome! Kirby never had a half-hearted idea in his life! I love it!

But more importantly, the night after I started reading it, I had a dream that Jack Kirby’s son (not sure if he actually had a son) was hunting me for sport. This was taking place in a hotel, down a hallway of conference rooms. I [...]

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Kevin and I spent five hours on Wednesday driving back and forth to Cromwell, CT so we could watch the film Batman Begins on opening night with Brother Brian. Turns out Brian and Kevin have watched every Batman movie together on opening night. I was with them for only Batman and Batman Returns. Since I missed the last two, history says I could have skipped this. But upon realizing that we could solidfy this into a ridiculous tradition of going far out of our way for movie openings– I was more than on board for the trek up into central CT. As Brian pointed out, the Hines [...]

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You know what a soothing song is? “Mr. Tambourine Man,” by Bob Dylan. So is “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue.” Okay, good night.

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I had four water bowls for the cats scattered around the apartment. Water is good for them, I thought. And they seem to like to be around me when I’m home. So if I keep water around me wherever I am, then they’ll drink more water.

Then Maggie picked up this habit of sticking her paw in the water, and then licking her paw. Okay, that’s no problem. Then I noticed she would sort of splash the water when she was done. A bit messy and sometimes I’d catch a few drops in my face, but really no bother. Then today she decided to start really aggressively splash the water in all the bowls one by one, until most of the [...]

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This is a comedy entry. Normal people might be advised to skip ahead to the next entry, which will probably be about what kind of Frosted Mini-Wheats I would prefer to be eating.

I keep thinking I’m going to have time to talk about this, and I’m not. So quickly: Gameface, my sketch comedy group (that’s 4 friends of mine, Dad, with whom I write and perform comedy shows), particpated in Sketchfest NYC. Basically, some 15 or so sketch groups descended on the UCB Theatre this past weekend and all performed their shows. We were the final act — midnight at Saturday.

Gameface traditionally has just done groups of sketches that have nothing to do with each other. But we’re [...]

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