From the monthly archives:

August 2006

Get your vote on!

August 30, 2006

Me! Originally uploaded by croppold.
This one chick on Yehoodi is shilling for votes for a story she wrote. I thought it was hilarious (the story, not the shilling), so I’m posting the link here so you guys can all vote too.
Two summers ago I had a [...]

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Six Flags recap and others

August 30, 2006

Miles and Ella Originally uploaded by Matt Stratton.
I took Monday off of work to go to Six Flags Great America with Carrie. Now, I’m generally not a big fan of Six Flags – I got spoiled a few years ago by going to the Anderson Consulting [...]

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My bike journal!

August 29, 2006

If you feel like keeping track of my riding, you can do so super easily by visiting my bike journal at http://www.bikejournal.com/journal_public.asp?rname=mattstratton.
Today’s ride home sucked ass, by the way. Super windy along the lake, and rainy to boot. I learned the following things about riding in the rain:
* I need fenders on my bike. I [...]

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Improv Overload

August 25, 2006

“The Wellingtons”
Originally uploaded by Matt Stratton.
In addition to the Open Improv Jam-O-Rama thingerdoodle I’m going to on Sunday, I’ve been invited to “guest direct” the improv group Playmation for a while. That’s pretty cool.
Plus, in late September, and I will be teaching an “Improv 101″ workshop as part of Yehoodi U at [...]

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Update Action

August 25, 2006

(I don’t have any good photos that correspond to biking, so there’s no picture in today’s entry. Sad.)
I haven’t updated in a while, so I figured it was a good time to do so.
Today is the second day this week that I’ve biked to work. Now that it’s not oppressively hot, I should be able [...]

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Improv Free-For-All

August 22, 2006

x-post from my friend Jolene’s blog:

On Sunday, August 27th, The Flying Buttresses and Playmation will host an Improv Open House, a free-for-all where you can get on stage and show us your stage genius. You can see what we do when we practice our games and scenes and you can join right in. Think of [...]

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