{"id":10,"date":"2008-11-24T21:16:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T02:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2008-11-25T19:16:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T00:16:17","slug":"things-ive-learned-recently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Things I&#8217;ve learned recently"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>For someone who moves apartments and cities as often as I do, I&#8217;m an awful packer.<\/li>\n<li>In the scene I was given for my Second City callback, I played the Stephen Colbert part.  And in at least one scene for the boat, I&#8217;m playing the Steve Carell part.  I can only conclude that when I die and go to heaven, they&#8217;ll be my gay dads.  To supplement my real parents, of course.  It&#8217;s heaven.<\/li>\n<li>My fellow cast mates are as sweet as punch spiked with funny juice.  Based on the first twenty-four hours.  (And one is already on the boat yet, so I haven&#8217;t met him.  But I hear good things.)  An interesting thing: on our show poster, the Canadians are smiling, teeth a-blazing, the Americans not.  A trend?<\/li>\n<li>Ketchup chips: chicks dig &#8217;em.<\/li>\n<li>The first show I&#8217;ve reserved a ticket for: Messing with a Friend.  It&#8217;s at Annoyance, the Chicago mecca that I <em>haven&#8217;t<\/em> yet been to, and it&#8217;s Susan Messing playing with Mick Napier and The Barinholtz Boys.  I&#8217;ll be seeing other shows (including the Second City, of course), but that was the first where I said &#8220;Gotta have it!&#8221;  And for $5, too!<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve got a hankering for a deep-dish pizza.  And we&#8217;re staying ridiculously close to Wrigley Field.  Chicago!<\/li>\n<li>Toronto will be missed.  By me, that is.  I&#8217;m not prophesying any big disaster.  But all Torontonians should be emailing me constantly, so that if disaster does strike, I&#8217;ll figure it out from the sudden lack of emails.  (What the hey, better assure me of Vancouver&#8217;s survival too!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And lastly, but far from leastly, and in fact, so far from leastly that I&#8217;m giving it its own separate bullet:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was brought to my attention by fellow cast mate Nathan Clark (not the Vancouver one&#8230;a Texas\/L.A. one) that there&#8217;s a special event happening on our boat in February.  It&#8217;s called Ships and Dip.  It&#8217;s a bunch of Canadian icons coming to perform on the Jewel, including The Barenaked Ladies&#8230;Sloan&#8230;and&#8230;wait for it&#8230;Kevin McDonald and Dave Foley!  In my dreams, they improvise with us.  And then become my second pair of post-death heaven-based gay dads.  Check it out: <a title=\"blocked::http:\/\/www.shipsanddip.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shipsanddip.com\/\">http:\/\/www.shipsanddip.com\/<\/a><a title=\"blocked::http:\/\/www.antimusic.com\/news\/08\/nov\/03Barenaked_Ships_-_Dip_DVD.shtml\" href=\"http:\/\/www.antimusic.com\/news\/08\/nov\/03Barenaked_Ships_-_Dip_DVD.shtml\">http:\/\/www.antimusic.com\/news\/08\/nov\/03Barenaked_Ships_-_Dip_DVD.shtml<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For someone who moves apartments and cities as often as I do, I&#8217;m an awful packer. In the scene I was given for my Second City callback, I played the Stephen Colbert part. And in at least one scene for the boat, I&#8217;m playing the Steve Carell part. 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