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Listen: The Era interviewed on Another Podcast!
Courageous hosts, Micah and Jo, sat down with us to chat back braces, regular braces, and whole bunch of other stuff. Take a listen!
Celine Dion Look-Alike?
- Client: Don't you ever go home? I was just in Vegas!
- Sarah: Fun!
- Client: You know Celine Dion? Are you familiar with Celine Dion? We saw her and she sang the Titanic song.
- Sarah: She still does that?
- Client: Haha! Yes, oh yes. And there were 3,000 people there and we were on the mezzanine and they had this giant ring around the ceiling. She starts singing her final song, this French song, and all this rain starts falling from the ceiling! And they have a big screen up behind her, you know, and they show a close up of her face -- you kind of look like her, but you know, younger -- and they show a close up of her face and she's singing this French song and she's crying! And all the women are all, "Oh, how beautiful and weepy and oh, oh, now I'm crying!" Then she had pictures of her twins up there, and her family. You know, as gay as I am, it was too girly for me.
- Sarah: Sounds like quite a spectacle.
- Client: Yeah, well. That's Vegas.
Me, Myself, and the Kardashians
By Dara K.
Would I take offense if the entire fiasco that was the Kardashian-Humphries wedding/divorce were revealed to had been deliberately planned? Yes. But more in the way that I would screen Kim’s calls, only reply “K” to her texts, and aggressively passive aggressively say “I’m just really in hurry, Kim,” when I run into her at the salon where we both get our fake lashes surgically implanted.
That’s because Kim could, like, maybe be my best friend. Well, I’d probably be Kourtney and Khloe’s best friend and Kim would be more like our sister we roll our eyes about because the girl doesn’t know how to have fun!
Who really knows if some day I will be a well-known extra in a Kardashian spin-off. I’ll help Scott make flashcards about Judaism in case Kourtney grills his knowledge on it. I’ll stay behind from the opening of a new Kardashian tossed-salad to-go joint to watch Mason. I’ll tell Kim to get over herself, thereby almost destroying our friendship, but then Kourtney and Khloe will intervene by somehow tricking us to show up at a weird Ping Pong bar at the same time where we realize even though we annoy each other, we’re just like sisters. And we need each other.
It’s kind of like how all those poor people still vote Rebuplican. We shouldn’t tax the rich because I might just be that rich some day! And even though it’s just a tiny shred of hope, it bears the most weight. It directs every other shred in your being to go along for the ride. It’s the reason I think I would be the missing piece at the Kardashian-Jenner dinner table and be the perfect companion on a road trip with Kourtney, Khloe, and Kim where I’d accidentally include some voice memos of me talking to myself on my iPod playlist and we’d all have one of those great Kardashian laughs and Khloe would make fun of me to the point of verbal abuse, and I’d run away to a staircase nobody knows exists except me and…my best friends…Kim, Kourtney, and Khloe, who are waiting there for me. In one small look, Khloe’s eyes will tell me all I need to know about how sorry she is. And while I rest my head on Kim’s shoulder, Kourtney will say something monotone like, “Sorry, Khloe can be retarded.”
So, no, as a Kardashian, I’m not upset about a fixed wedding or retroactive scenes on the show to make ourselves look better in the scheme of things…because it’s just not true. Trust me. I know. I’m a Kardashian.
visionsofviolet asked: I have always wanted to get into improv, anyway I can join?
OBVI! It depends what city you’re in. In Chicago, for example, if you’ve never done an ounce of improv, Second City’s A-E are great. If you’ve done some improv and want more, try iO’s program, Annoyance’s, or the Second City Conservatory. Those are all long-form theaters. If you’re interested in short-form, kinda like Whose Line Is It Anyway? Try ComedySportz.
If you’re in college, audition for a team or get a group of mofos together who want to play. You can bring in a coach for 5 bucks a head to tell you WTF to do.
Good luck! And just dive in. OK??! DO IT!!!
lupinskindagirl asked: sorry to be really stupid here but what is the deal with this lady gaga and 5 hour energy drink thing? I'm British and don't think we have it over here so any joke about it probablly wouldn't have crossed the pond!
You may be British, but you are NOT stupid! It’s just a weird/quirky blog our friend embarked on…because why not? Hope that answers your question…and 5 Hour Energy, in my personal opinion, tastes amazing.
The Era Debuts at 2012 Chicago SketchFest Saturday, Jan. 14 at 6 pm
“No, not heavy metal! It’s crabcore!”: A two-woman sketch comedy show where you forget there’s only two performers @ Stage 773
Come!!! Tickets are $14 here.
The Week Between Christmas and New Year’s
By: Sarah Ashley
It’s too early to start the new diet.
Saying “Merry Christmas” sounds kinda weird.
Work is slow, but you have to go.
All the new movies premiered.
Some people are still in town.
But some others are still on vacation.
Lotta gift cards; apartment in shards.
Doing leftover food experimentation.
I guess I could write Thank You notes.
Mani-pedis should definitely be cheaper.
Take down lights? Leave up lights.
It’d be cool if wine bottles were deeper.
Should’ve asked for new boots.
Wait, did anyone make New Years plans?
Feelin’ lazy. Sky is hazy.
In a week I used this many pans!?
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