Will Hines Dot Net

Ptolemy and Shelly Slocum are moving to Los Angeles. I miss them already! And our improv community lost two more great actors! Go forth and have greatness, Slocums! Terry Jinn wrote a nice good-bye to them on The Apiary.

Joe Pera, a stand-up who’s also taking classes at the UCBT, has twice now done stand-up on the L subway platform for change. I think that is hilarious.

Everyone watch this immediately — the magic of the Three Wolf Moon t-shirt brought to life.

Almost as funny as the amazon.com reviews, and I mean that as a high compliment to both the video and the reviews. Thx, Tabitha, for forwarding this to me!

Today, the three Hines boys traveled to Pops Hines place and we all played Bocci ball. It was fun! Though Kevin and I tried to be the far more coordinated team of Dad and Brian, and we lost 33-2. Two shutout games of 11-0 in a row followed by one in which we had a rally of two points, before losing 11 more points in a row.

Conclusion: When combined, the Hines men form a 90 year old Greek man living in Astoria.

Runpee.com is hilarious. It tells you in a very organzied and businesslike manner when during a movie you can run to the bathroom, missing the most minimal information. Star Wars has only one recommended pee time. [via kottke.org]

I accidentally saw Star Trek a third time in the theaters last night.

As publishing tools get simpler — like Final Cut, Adobe InDesign — and as more and more people output creative works, and as more and more people document their lives with blogs and digital photos ,and the straight-up VOLUME OF INFORMATION PROCESSED DAILY goes up and up and up — what happens if we as a race of animal accidentally trigger MASSIVE GROUP MIND and we all turn into beings of light, or brainstems with eyes only, or one uninterrupted blob of flesh? What then? Will I still be on an improv team?

I take terrific satisfaction from marking an email as “read.”

So Derrick Comedy’s movie “Mystery Team” will be released this fall. Exciting! my three lines are gonna be in THEATERS! Here is the trailer which I am posting since it shows me at the five second mark as “Reasonable Principal.”

These guys are good, right? Comedy nerds know that Derrick used to part of the Hammerkatz at NYU, at the same time that Greg & Lou were part of the group, and also the Chubby Skinny Kids. Funny dudes, all.

Congrats Derrick!

It is stressful to be busy but also fun. For example: yesterday.  I performed in a ridiculous video (which involved me wearing a pink mesh t-shirt and green Adidas shorts), then hosted a fine class show, then recorded a voiceover for a superhero cartoon, then played Battlestar Galactica, in which the players were all accusing each other of being Cylons literally seconds after the game began! Hilarious.

Stressful though, also. Running from thing to thing. But it’s better that way. I get anxious but I prefer it. I am reminding myself this as I am about to take one class and then teach two more in a row.