e-mail collage

The Hype 7 has an e-mail chain that we use to send each other information on rehearsals, shows, sketch ideas, hang outage, and jokes. Recently we've been making fun of The New Yorker cartoons, and here is something Tiffany pieced together from our e-mails:

The New Yorker Ball Escapade!

- A Collaboration by the Hype 7 -

*Tiffany Intercepts New Yorker Ball and takes off in the other direction in hopes of hiding it in an undisclosed location*
Tiffany guards the door of a secret bunker on the outskirts of Washington D.C. Through the window of the door, we can see the New Yorker ball. Tiffany says..."I hear eating celery is actually considered exercise."
Jessica is stalking down the corridor of a secret bunker near Washington D. C., completely clad in black. Her hair is in a ponytail and we can see a tool belt with various gadgets sitting low on her waist as she stealthily creeps through the building. As she passes door with a window in it, we can see Tiffany sitting behind a large mahogany desk, sporting an eye patch and cleaning her nails out with a short switchblade knife. She is leaning back in her chair with her feet casually propped on the desk. Just beyond that door is a cell with striped bands of moonlight illuminating a "New Yorker cartoon ball" that is weeping silently behind the bars. The caption reads, "Oh snap, I forgot to pay the water bill!"
As Jessica's eyes alight on the New Yorker Ball she slinks silently with ninja-like grace towards the door. She eases it open so that she can reclaim the New Yorker Ball. Luckily Tiffany remembered to pay the water bill. And a bucket of carefully positioned water falls down onto Jessica's head. "Ah ha! I have caught you!" Tiffany cries out. Jessica, now resembling a drowned rat in her black clothes and dripping wet stubby ponytail does a quick back flip out the door and disappears into the night.
And little did Tiffany know that before Jessica ran out of the corridor, she managed to attach a roll of toilet paper to the bottom of Tiffany's shoe, thus ensuring that wherever she walked she would drag an embarrassingly long string of paper with her. Even worse, Jessica had written "I like cheese and mittens and cheese mittens" on the paper.
Tiffany sits at her desk, a call comes in, it seems Will Smith is signing autographs at the mall. Tiffany bolts out the door to get an autograph, but alas, Will Smith is not at the mall, it was I who made the call. Now with Tiffany out of the office I am free to enter and retrieve the "New Yorker" cartoon ball. Which I do with ease. She thought it would be so easy, that we would just forget about the cartoon ball. Ha, the cage the ball was crying in isn't even locked! After stealing a hand full of Wheat Thins from a box on her desk I simply walk out the door with the cartoon ball.

The End

photobucket survey

1) Answer the questions below
2) Take each answer and type it into Tinypic/Photobucket
3) Take a picture from the first page of results copy the html code.
4) You cant copy the persons answers who posted this before you

1. Age on next birthday:


2. A place you would like to travel:


3. Your favorite place:


4. Your favorite object:


5. your favorite food.


6. Favorite animal:


7. Favorite Color:


8. The town you were born in:


9. The town you live in: Well, I searched for Basehor, but the only thing that came up was a map to someone's house...not posting that, so here's KC:



10. Type of pet: Currently-


11. Name of your love:


12. Your nickname:


13. Middle name:


14. Last name: (the one on the bottom is Brianna)

Shakenumup

I am in a bit of a jeans dillema. I hate shopping for them because no matter how you stuff fat into new jeans it's completely unattractive, so until you wear them long enough to where they're looser, you muffin top like crazy. Not to mention a size at one store is completely different from the same size at a different store, and within the same store different styles are completely different in the same size, even if they're the same brand! Ugh. Luckilly, as I was looking in the mirror this morning I noticed my face is starting to get thinner again, which means I'm losing weight again. I've been on a plateau ever since I found out what is in some of that low fat no sugar crap they hock as "healthy." I'd rather eat less chemicals, thank you very much, but it's very hard to find more natural foods that are good for you that TASTE good. I think I finally found a good balance, and we're back on track. Yay! I've been running low on steam lately and I needed to get away so we went to Denver this weekend to visit some friends of ours, which was awesome. I haven't been out there in a while and I need to get out more often, I really do. I still don't feel 100%, but every little bit helps. Plus the year is heading into an upswing right now, Winter is about 1/3 over, which is nice, so hopefully that'll do it for me. If not I'm going to have to take another trip. :-) I might just do that anyhow. Blah, I feel like I'm opening my skull and emptying my thoughts into this posting....like I need to air out some things. Maybe I do need to. *shrug* Oh, and FYI, I'm getting closer to meeting my goal for my summer plans. Eee! I am very excited!

RIP, Heath Ledger

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/22/heath.ledger.dead/index.html

I'm not a huge fan or anything, but this is a bit of a shock...I can't believe it.

Audition announcement

AUDITIONS!


Are you a pathetic has been? Washed up? Tired of the Branson circuit? Or maybe you're a b-list behind the scenes type skirting the edges of the red carpet. Or perhaps you're a one hit wonder from the sixties, seventies, or eighties. If so, Geico wants you!

This exciting opportunity will give you the chance to sit behind a "normie" and listen to them drone on and on about their car accident, then we'll have you break in and do your "look how cute I am" schtick that only baby boomers will recognize! We guarantee many people will see your face on TV once again, and some might remember you!*

So come join us for this desperate attempt to feel loved again! (also, if you have any random animals lying around your house, please bring them. We would like to shoot a commercial with them in which we insert a computer animated gecko that will talk them to death about nonsensical random gibberish.)

*actual ratio of people who might remember you vs. people who have to ask their parents who you are: 1,256,573 to 1


Seriously, Geico, what happened to you? You used to be cool.

Last Laugh Lane

Leigha had a birthday party this afternoon, so we went to Target to get a gift for the child whose party she was attending. On the way there I saw a Kansas vanity plate that read "knitter." Wow. I am shocked that I was priveleged enough to see that one. I mean, think about it. This is KANSAS we're talking about. 90% of the state doesn't have anything to do, and the rest of us get to live in Kansas City. I would imagine that a loooooot of people in Kansas knit. Therefore, seeing the plate that says "knitter" (and it had the LV in the corner that stands for Leavenworth County, so I know they're local) around here is astounding. Anyhow, before we went to Target I went to Old Navy to see if there was anything interesting to be had. I hate going to malls on Saturdays. Especially when the guy doesn't see/ignores the stop sign that tells him I have the right of way and I literally had to hop the curb to avoid being taken out by the uberselfish SUV driver. Ugh, I thought I got away from that crap when I left Denver. No, really, uberselfish SUV drivers: about 40% of the reason we left. (the other 60% was various miscellany, including high prices and hyperurbanization) Anyhow, so I get to Old Navy and they're having a SALE!!! Huge, huge sale, FYI. Stop reading and go, like, now. Did you have a great trip? K, great. As I was saying, big sale (I know, wasn't it great?) and I got a large bag full to the top of clothing for only $30. Yay! I love sales. We swung by Target, got the present and some wrappings, and I dropped Leigha off at her party. Poor Bri is jealous. I remember being sad when I wasn't invited to parties for my sister's friends. It's hard being the second child. Anyhow, Antiprov is tonight, and I'm not going to lie to you, I'm getting nervous. This is the first time I've helped create something so revolutionary and I am apprehensive about what it's going to turn out like. That's the beauty and curse of improv....even YOU don't know what will happen.

More Thunderdome

Thunderdome also made it into the Kansas City Star, the main newspaper here. http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/story/437298.html

I've been in things in my small, hometown newspapers growing up, but never in a major paper like this. If they do a writeup for next month's as well, my name is going to be in it. Eep! That's rather awesome! I'm really getting excited here!

15 bytes of fame

Many of you have heard of my little improv group "Antiprov." I don't remember if I mentioned what it is and what it's for....well, we're competing in the Improv Thunderdome, which starts this weekend. We don't compete until February, but here's a wicked sweet article about this month's competition: http://pitch.com/search/events.php?oid=509698 I am looking forward to seeing who wins, this is really fun. I happened to be in the vicinity of the Westport Coffeehouse last night (so much in the vicinity that I actually went into the building and had a glass of water! *thrilling blog, Jess* ) and saw the large poster on the outside of the building advertising for it:
Very cool. I can't believe I'm involved in this, it's exciting! I feel extremely priveleged. I doubt we'll win, but for me, that's not what this is about. I am enjoying creating a new form of improv with the very little experience I have, and I can't wait to present it and blow everyone's socks off, even if it's just because we sucked so much (yeah, not likely). At least waves will have been made.

Moving forward

We took down the Christmas tree this evening. Brianna flipped out. "I don't want you to! It's Christmas!" Little booger. We explained to her that Christmas was over and that we'd put it up again next year, but that wasn't good enough for her. In fact, I honestly thought she was going to cry. I managed to put a stop to that, however, when I told her the next holiday was Leigha's birthday. "Yaaaay!" Leigha then started in with, "Oh, yes! We can put up birthday decorations for me!!!" RIP, Christmas '07. You were a good one.

Don't think just because I got a lot of money I'll give you taco flavored kisses, honey!

Tiffany came over today. Her car is leaking oil and she asked Jason to look at it. We were hanging out upstairs when Jason came up and said, "Uh, who changed your oil last?" "Wal-Mart....why?" "Did you make them mad at all?" "Maybe, why?" "Well....." He told us, we cracked up, he took this picture:


Nice. :-D Tonight we drove to Lawrence for a UHF viewing party at Jen's house. Almost all the Hype 7 were there, and Jason and the girls came. Jen had made mini pizzas and we laughed and talked in the kitchen for a while before watching the movie. Toward the end Brianna turned to Jen and said, "Can I have another pepperoni cookie?" She was talking about the mini pizzas. We ended the evening with a rousing game of "Where have your fingers been?" An awesome improv game in which you point to someone and say a location, then they act out a scene using their fingers as the characters.

Headlight disco

New Year's was fun, went to a couple different parties, played a ton of Guitar Hero. This is going to be an awesome year, I can totally feel it. Especially because it's noon and I'm in jammies and a fuzzy robe. If this is how it starts, it already rocks. At any rate, this posting is to inform you of my intent to start a new blog for this year. I'm going to maintain this one, but I'd like to also keep up a photoblog with one picture for each day, all 366 of them. (Check the calendar, it's a leap year) I will not be able to post each picture on that day because of how life is, but I will take one picture each day and post it with something about the corresponding day. It'll be a great overall snapshot of my life, I think. :-)

http://sugarbumkin366.blogspot.com/