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Love, Mike

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Well, I was checking out the blog in the computer lab in Stimson Hall and I accidentally pressed the print button. So now I have a few pages of the blog all printed out. Great. This is what I need.

Guess I'll go put these up on a bulletin board in Goldwin-Smith.

EDIT - The pages are printed on both sides, so even if someone stops to look at this for some reason, it isn't going to make any sense. Good.

Pros of the Pros

Allen mentioned the Harvard Sailing Team, but I think it bears further mention of something pretty darn important.

HST was one of the professional groups at the festival, along with Derrick and UCB's touring company, but what made these guys special was their style: highly physical, almost frenetic surrealist sketches with some singin', some dancin', and some havin'-fun thrown in the pot.

We got to do a workshop with the Team, and what we came out with was a greater understanding of what it means to be a comedy group. Sure, we want to write in our own voice and keep the good ol' Skitso traditions alive, but there's also a life under those skits that we barely ever touch upon. HST's strength is their ability to explore that life and heighten their comedy with it. It's really something to behold, and we were pretty fortunate to get the opportunity to learn from their process.

Really all I'm trying to say is that, aside from a weekend of laughing and partying and hankering down, this festival really reminded us that we're not only a bunch of sillies sillying it up in Sillytown. We're artists, in our own silly way, and what better way to grow as artists than to take the risk of letting the art evolve? Sillily!

Oh My God We Are Back Again

Hey, let's try this "blog" thing one more time, ok?

TECHNOBABBLE ASIDE - we just did a set at the National Comedy College Festival at beautiful Skidmore College in wondrous Saratoga Springs. I think it's fair to say that the Skits put on one of their strongest performances in years at the festival and we had a bucket of fun too. Good job to all those groups out there, and good job to us too! Yay!

Highlights from the trip:

-McGuerty's purchase of the Beavis and Butthead Experience on cassette tape.
-Harvard Sailing Team
-The freshman men buying and wearing party shirts for the party party.
-Shane's emergence from chrysalis as a beautiful butterfly.
-The Cotillion the women prepared and organized. (Good job, girls! Yeah, I think we DID dance too much!)
-Turkey the Invisible (but Loud) Cat

ALL jokes aside, it was a blast. Can't wait till next year.

Like the Phoenix from the Ashes...

...This blog will rise again.