Monday

Hmm, what did we do Monday?  We woke up and got our metro passes, stopped at Second City, and then went to Savories, Jake's favorite comfort food place in Chicago.  When we were there, we saw Tim Meadows outside putting money in his meter.  Ali calculated when he'd be back and "talked on her phone" outside so she could get a good look. Frank gave Becca a quarter in case Tim needed more time at the meter.  Tim returns and Matt stands at the window to get his attention.  Tim comes in and we ask him to take a picture. We also ask him if he wants to be in inc, but he politely declines.  During the picture, he gets nervous that he will be late for his meter, but we tell him we paid for it.  After lunch, some of us went shopping at various stores.  At night we saw the Armando Diaz experience at io.  Following the show, we went over to Peyton, an Inc alum and his girlfriend Sarah's housewarming party.  It was a lot of fun to see his place and reunite with many alum who moved to Chicago (Brian, Tyler, Peyton, Josh).  After the party, the ones of us left over that didn't leave a bit earlier, played Doo Run Run and freeze at the train stop for the other people waiting for the train and then played Doo Run Run for some girls riding the train once we got on.  Highly entertaining

Tuesday

Tuesday night!  We're all back in the hotel now, resting up for our workshop with Susan Messing tomorrow at 11 at Annoyance Theatre.  Today we woke up for a workshop at Annoyance with Mark Sutton at eleven.  This is our third year working with him in a row and it went very well.  We focused mainly on relationship to environment, character, and objects.  After the workshop he stayed extra time with us to talk about different things which was really great.  Following the workshop we split into different groups, two getting alternating types of lunch and a couple stayed back at the hotel.  After lunch some went shopping and others took naps.  Before our shows at Annoyance this evening, a few of us met with Jamie, an inc alum from 1995-1999 for dinner.  It was cool to meet a past inc member and discuss inc history.  Tonight we saw 4 shows at Annoyance.  The show started out with a group called Fishnuts and then Chicagoland.  The first has been debated between the group as to whether or not we thought it was good, but Chicagoland was great.  We had also seen Chicagoland last year.  Following Chicagoland, Bad Touch came on which was great and then we saw a not too good group at the end.  I cant remember their name.  Peyton, his girlfriend Sarah, and Tyler met us at Annoyance which was awesome.  After the shows we went back to Tyler, Josh, and Brian's place and hung out with Tyler and Brian for a while.  We then walked back, hung out in the hallway for a bit, and now we're back.

Chicago: Day 1

Well, its Monday morning and we're waiting for Jake to finish getting ready, again.  Inc left Maryland yesterday around 6am and took the 12/13 hour car trip to Chicago.  Couldn't get a twelve person van so we traveled in a 7 person van and Aaron's car, switching off car combinations throughout the trip.  Got to Chicago around 6, checked into the hotel and then went to iO theatre.  Met a Jewish guy with a fro and huge mutton-chops along the way who took a particular liking to Lee.  At iO, we watched Grasshopper, a show that included various level 5 iO students and two iO performers, TJ and another guy that was also real good.  After that show we watched Children of a Lesser God, featuring Emily Candini, Kate Duffy, Rachael Mason, and Susan Messing, who we are taking a workshop with later this week.  We blew our loads to it.  Later on, we hung out in the hotel and some of us went to Clarke's diner and met with an inc. alum, Peyton who was in the group with Jake and Aaron before the rest of the group got in.  Looking forward to today....No workshops, but we'll see what we do.

St Patrick's Day Show

St. Patrick's Day Show

Thursday, March 13th 8 pm Lab Theatre in C-SPAC

Game List

Limerick Gaelic Sitcom- American Family Sitcom Beads on a Charm Bracelet- Beads on a String Danger Prov Up and Back to the Old Country- Up and Back Pro-Life Pause- Pregnant Pause Bloke Loilet- Smote Loilet IRA Time Bomb- Time bomb 187 (Pub) Harold Anti-Freeze

Movie: "Greenless"

Chicago

Erasable Inc. is in Chicago for the breaking of classes at University of Maryland. Extensive improvisation training, cultural enrichment, and heavy petting are likely to occur.

Chicago is full of buildings and [CULTURAL REFERENCE MISSING]. I hope that they find the experience helpful and leave with a more enlightened view of the importance of blogs. I miss you.

St. Patrick's Day

I should have told you about the Inc. show last Thursday in celebration of the great Saint Patrick. However, I was drunk and/or asleep. The internet can be a seedy place to pass out.

Anyway, all who attended were given one superpower of choice by Erasable Inc. I would have picked the ability to turn into a website. I have no imagination, nor any need for such.