Midwest Airlines New Motto: We Suck!

I have presented a challenge to myself for this post. I am trying to get it finished before the coffee is done.
Anissa and I went to Clearwater Florida this weekend for an anniversary getaway (celebrating seven years, thank you) we left Friday morning on Midwest at 5:45, bound for Tampa by eleven and a stop in Milwaukee on the way. We departed a half hour late, missed our connecting flight in Milwaukee and didn't get to Florida until 9 PM. We wasted a whole day traveling. I called Midwest and they moved our return trip to Monday instead of Sunday, giving us the day back that we missed. Good enough. Then Monday we were on the plane and leaving Florida, when the pilot had us deboard because they could not get a door closed on the plane. An hour later we were back on the lane and thirty minutes later we were in the air. We missed our connecting flight in Milwaukee. There were no flights to Kansas City until 6:30PM so another whole day wasted. Then, our 6:30 plane came in late, at about 7 PM and had some maintenance problems. We jumped to a 7:50 flight just before it took off, and arrived five minutes before the 6:30 flight arrived. To make matters worse, they lost our luggage. It is located and safe now.
Midwest was not the best care in the air, no matter how good their damn cookies are.
Coffee is finished burbling...

Improv Thunderdome - Season 3 Round 1

This past weekend marks the one year debut of Loaded Dice. Of course we worked hard rehearsing before that, but we hit the stage on the very first Improv Thunderdome performance ever. We rocked the sold out house.
A year later, we have done four additional full shows, plus a few sets 30 minutes or less. This coming year we look to do about six full shows.
Thunderdome this time around featured Kill the DJ, Scriptease and Holy Cow! (from Rockhurst University). Kill the DJ wins with two members of Loaded Dice leading the charge and two improv students of mine shining on stage. Okay, so I taught Jeremy only a little bit, but I am still proud of their set. Good job guys! They did a longform with a gimmick: the only way to switch to a new character was to die. So the story was fun and rambling as the characters died and new ones took the audience to new locations. Yeah, some stuff was hack. The audience loved it, and was appropriately silent if something didn't hit or if it felt forced.

Scriptease was off. They lacked energy and their set was just a little too random for the audience I think. Thank goodness they went first! The guys are great improvisers and I enjoy their previous sets a lot. Too bad they didn't hit that night.

Holy Cow! Performed some short form games. The energy was okay, I think they were nervous. Cindy Paasch (gosh, I hope I spelled that right) led the pack of eight, which just seemed like too many people. They started with Gibberish Murder, and it was rough. Then they reqrouped and put on a nice show. Yeah, it was nice. It could be I am jaded because I performed short form so long that I watched from the booth and went, "oh thats wrong... I would have done this...they should do this...why aren't they doing that..." Also, they read their games off a piece of paper. I know, I know, I shouldn't be so critical... but we just got lambasted on Cindy's blog for not being critical enough.

So that brings me to...
We are too nice as a group of improvisers in Kansas City. I liked the idea that good improvisers are a breed above the rest. I used to look up to people like Corey Rittmaster and Rob Lawrence for guidance as to what I was doing wrong, what I needed to do right. Now, people look to me to ask that and it is a nice feeling. And I am nice back. Sometimes, though, I just want to tell someone that they suck and that they need to work on it or stop doing improv. It got told to me, and it made me work on it. It got told to my old roommate, and he stopped.

Stupid Women: Don't Leave Your Baby with Him.

Really. It happened again. Some stupid woman left her infant daughter with the guy she shacks up with. When she returned the baby was beaten to death. Hmmmmm...
How many times does this shit have to happen? Nothing makes me more angry than someone hurting a kid. Read the story:

ST. JOSEPH | A St. Joseph man accused of killing a 36-day-old baby was not only the boyfriend of the child’s mother, but was also her uncle.

That was part of what came to light in the first day of Steven Zorn’s first-degree murder trial, which continued Wednesday in Buchanan County District Court. Zorn is charged in the beating death of Cora Jean Lockhart on Jan. 7, 2008.

Prosecuting Attorney Dwight Scroggins told jurors that Zorn started dating the baby’s mother, Suzan Lockhart, when she was pregnant by Zorn’s half-brother, David Petty. Cora Jean was born Dec. 2, and by then Zorn lived with Lockhart and her two other children.

Just over a month later, Scroggins said, the baby was beaten to death.

Defense attorneys don’t dispute the baby’s cause of death, but believe evidence will show that Zorn did not knowingly kill the child with deliberation.

So I know the death happened a year ago. I just don't understand something in the story. The attorneys don't dispute the cause of death, Zorn (asshole) did not knowingly kill the child. What the hell was he thinking? "I didn't mean to kill the little baby, but my fists were just too heavy for her body. So I didn't mean to kill her, so be lenient." What a dick. Man I just wish that someone would pummel his ass to death. On second thought...

Here is my solution (?) to this problem -
When someone commits such a horrible atrocity, I think a statement needs to be made: He should serve two years in prison. Then tatoo on his forehead "BABYKILLER" then he has to look at it every time he looks in the mirror, when people ask about it, he will relive the horrible deed. Eventually someone will beat his ass for it. Maybe that will happen more than once. Maybe someone will beat him until his life is gone. That would be closer to justice for the little girl.