Griggsness: No hair changes you

Yeah I keeps what hair I have pretty close and tight.  A friend of mine once said “I love your short hair cut, it makes balding seem like your choice.”  But the thing is that no hair on the head will always change you not just how other see you but how you feel.  It’s either gonna make you a little more Ghandi or a little more Lex Luthor.

Love, Meg: The Fugitive/Sneakers/Too Many Secrets

Griggs, I’m glad you brought up The Fugitive.  As a youth growing up in the Chicagoland Metropolitan Area, I was so impressionable when it was released that I was convinced for years that the doctor’s who ran Children’s Memorial where untrustworthy.   I was also convinced that if I was ever being chased by cops, I should run into the St. Patrick’s Day Parade.  Even Ferris Bueller knew that.

But, I think the movie that taught me the most about decoding spy messages was Sneakers.  Hey, if the director of Field of Dreams knows anything, it’s how to sell a movie with a dramatic stairwell chase scene:

Griggsness: Movie Madness

I just watched “The Fugitive” again. It’s the Harrison Ford/Tommy Lee Jones classic. You learn how to evade the FBI in this one. So for example, we learn if you shave your beard, no one can recognize you anymore. There’s even a scene where a cop asks Ford “Hey you seen anyone that looks like you” “Nope” Works every time. Goes down smooth like Grandma’s pie.

There are many unreal situations in the movie. Ford jumps 1,000 feet into a dam, a train hits a prison bus, etc. As a sidenote, apparently in the 80’s if you were transporting really bad criminals you put them in a school bus with two fat mall cops. No police escort cars were needed. Anyway as I was saying a lot of unreal stuff in the movie but the most unbelievable thing had to be that a rich, white doctor from Chicago could get the death penalty.

Very Nice Review of The Baldwins

From the NYU Washington Square News

We love how you really don’t even need to read past the ludicrously descriptive URL (but we’d love you to)!

Love, Meg: I Wonder What Uncle Bill Say About This.

Griggness: My Uncle Bill

My Uncle Bill is a retired gambler and he’s one of those relatives that knows everything because he has something clever to say about it.  No need for data with this method.  He saw a building with me once and said “That company is going under!”  When I enquired why he said “A business with no big sign is a sign of no big business!”

These days he’s getting older and it worries him.  He keeps saying ‘It’s coming.”  I asked him what that means and he said ‘Let’s just say in the near future I may ask you to put diapers on me and remember the good times.”

Griggsness: Family Problems

There’s a girl on my block that has a sign that reads “I’m pregnant and need $36 dollars for a bus ticket back to my family.”  To me if Dad can’t come up with $36 bucks maybe he’s not going to be much help with this whole baby thing.  She’ll get off the bus with her folks there going ‘Honestly we never thought you’d come up with the cash.”

SHOW TONIGHT!

The Baldwins cordially invite you to the marriage of thought, emotion, verbal communication, pantomime, and movement.  And we don’t even know what they look like!

9:30pm

The Peoples Improv Theater

154 W 29th (6th/7th)

FREE

Griggsness: New words are funsies!

I like new words.  I like to look them up.  I like to say them in a good way like “Wow Ben Affleck is trying to stretch himself as a person” not in that “Wow Paris Hilton who do you think you’re fooling” kinda way.  So I came across the word “Ennui”.  I googled it and have never seen so many naked pictures of chicks in my life.  I eventually found out it’s a French word that means “boredom”.  My French cats know how to get rid of boredom.

So that picture up top?

Of Meg and Steve almost kissing?

That happens – I’d say – at least once a month, that pose. Either in a practice (like it did two days ago) or in a show. Possibly because Steve’s always trying to kiss everyone during performances but no one else will go there with him; the two of them end up *this* close to a full-on makeout on the goddammed regular.

If you come to our show tonight, at 9:30 at the PIT, maybe they will kiss for REAL. I’m hoping not, for everyone’s sake, but you never know. Steve’s a real go-getter and Meg’s the best yes-and-er I know.