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Comedy tonight (Tuesday, August 18, 2009).
For some free entertainment, come to ComedySportz Houston, 901 Town & Country Blvd., at 7:30 to my improv 201 class perform along with a stand-up comedy class.
Cash bar (beer and wine).
Mark Bennett | November 14, 2008
Criminal defense trial lawyering
integrates technology, telecommunications and social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, videos and audio. This interaction, and the manner in which information is presented, depends on the varied perspectives and “building” of shared meaning among communities, as people share their stories and experiences.
Right?
I scavenged the definition from the Wikimedia page [...]
Mark Bennett | October 17, 2008
From a 2007 interview with improvisational comedy teacher Keith Johnstone:
GM: And you won’t be nervous.
KJ: No. Why should I be nervous? So I can screw up? If you can’t screw up, you have to be nervous. I can’t win them all. Usually it goes fine. But the one thing I mustn’t do is to try [...]
Mark Bennett | April 17, 2008
I still haven’t gotten to the inevitably brutal Problem of the Working Class post (using the words or phrases “pull yourself up by the bootstraps”; “economic expansion in the service sector”; “a symbolic border wall is the best solution”; “I agree wholeheartedly with Lou Dobbs and Pat Buchanan”; robber barons; the productivity wedge; debt; Scandanavia; [...]
Mark Bennett | April 10, 2008
The last time I had an ID on a lanyard was the summer of 1988, when I was working at CIA’s Office of Technical Services and had a green badge that had to be exposed at all times at work. For reasons that are perhaps obvious, I would remove the badge and lanyard when I [...]
Mark Bennett | March 23, 2007
In Keith Johnstone’s Impro for Storytellers he relates:
“A Japanese swordsman wrote that if you fight someone who has no plan, you’ll be thinking, I’ll do such and such! as your severed head bounces down the temple steps!”
(Then Johnstone adds, “(Well, he didn’t put it exactly like that.)”)
Johnstone is talking about how being “in the moment” [...]
