October 31st, 2008 | by Robert the Bruce | published in Good Life, Improv
Tonight is Halloween, my favorite night of the year. Something about wearing costumes brings out the playful side of people. Everyone is naturally friendly, outgoing, and fun. Costumes provide natural ice breakers and role playing is rampant. The ‘high’ feeling of going out on Halloween was something I experienced only rarely before I started learning [...]
October 13th, 2008 | by Robert the Bruce | published in Good Life, Work
Have you ever been reading a book and all of a sudden you think “my god, this man/woman is a genius.” I had that feeling when reading 4-Hour Work Week and Johnstone says “One afternoon I was lying on my bed and investigating the effects of anxiety on the musculature (how do you spend your [...]
October 7th, 2008 | by Robert the Bruce | published in Good Life, Travel, Work
Autumn, my friend from IHS, is now blogging from her new home in Jujuy, Argentina. I told her that usually I find personal ‘adventure’ blogs to be mind-numbing, but I’m actually enjoying hers. Maybe it’s because I’m starting to plan my own trip to South America in 2009.
Autumn is a fellow Location Independent Professional (LIP). [...]
August 11th, 2008 | by Robert the Bruce | published in Good Life, Improv, Work, Zen
When was the last time you spent a Wednesday night, just sitting at home, watching TV for three hours? That’s what I asked my former boss who I was on the phone with last week, discussing some business. When business is good (and it is for both of us) and you have a ton of [...]
August 8th, 2008 | by Robert the Bruce | published in Good Life
Keith Huang of SdViscous shot a ton of photos from the Baltimore Improv Festival, mostly from the partying after the shows on Saturday with Neutrino and a handfull of BIG people. He captured some of my favorite moments from the weekend, including the spontaneous-patriotic-outburst at Shorty’s and the dancing-in-the-street episode. I managed to sneak into [...]
August 6th, 2008 | by Robert the Bruce | published in Good Life
Sarah Burton, an improviser with Full Ammo Improv, interviewed me for an article about the festival last week for WTOP.com.
“If you’re in D.C., come up and discover the great improv that we have up at Baltimore, share a laugh with us, and branch out and experience something new,” Carter says.
Read the lone comment on [...]
August 5th, 2008 | by Robert the Bruce | published in Good Life, Work
I’m at the beach this week in Rehoboth, DE but I didn’t go to the actual beach today; I stayed in and worked all day. There was a time when I would have loathed the idea of not having a vacation completely devoid of any work time (there was also a time when thinking of [...]
August 1st, 2008 | by Robert the Bruce | published in Good Life
Miles, BIG’s excellent video guy, put together some intro videos for BIG troupes as part of this weekend’s festival.
Here’s the one for Mister Licorice. I’m the guy with the beard. If I looked zonked out in the interview it’s because I was on about 4 hours of sleep (damn 10am Sunday morning rehearsals!). The show [...]
July 11th, 2008 | by Robert the Bruce | published in Good Life
A sad day, spent at the hospital. He went gracefully. So much of life is a struggle to remain graceful. If you can go out the right way, it must count for something. Or maybe you’re dead and it doesn’t matter.
Cuando se muere la carne
el alma busca su diana
en el misterio del mundo
que le ha [...]