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Status: In a Relationship
City: MINNEAPOLIS
State: MINNESOTA
Country: US
Signup Date: 2/27/2006

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Monday, April 07, 2008 

Happy Monday! This might be my last week blogging on MySpace, FYI.

1. Let’s begin this blog by wishing the lovely Lauren Anderson a happy birthday! She’s a delightful woman and someone whom I’m honored to call a friend. Seriously, she’s the bees knees wrapped in honey. She knows everyone in the Twin Cities which is a feat in and of itself, but the fact that all of the people she knows love her unconditionally is even more impressive. Admit it, if you’re friends with Lauren, you’re a better person because of it. Happy B-day, young lady.

2. Well, mikefotis.com is finally where I want it to be. You may not know this about me, but I can be a bit of a stubborn mule.  Because of this lovely/annoying trait of mine, I spent hours and hours and hours and hours learning about code and screaming and berating myself and threatening my cat* until I finally arrived at something I liked. No fooling, when images finally started appearing where I wanted them to appear, I nearly started to cry. Oh who am I trying to impress, I totally started sobbing. I blame the tears on it being 430 in the morning and on my being a vagina disguised as a man. Anyhoo, enjoy.

3. Last night, The Moustache Rangers performed the best improv set that I have seen anyone do this year. It wasn’t line for line the funniest set I’ve seen, but the sheer number of levels that they were playing on made the whole thing an absolute sight to see. In short, they managed to shit on improv, celebrate improv, shit on the teaching of improv, celebrate the teaching of improv, delight veteran cranky improvisers with their "meta-ness" and still wholly include the entire audience in their fun all while each only playing one character throughout. Seriously. It was fantastic. Check out their website if you so desire.

Well, that’s all for today.  Tomorrow we will discuss solo show stuff and maybe Dinner With Fotis. And probably the Cubs, but in a way that non sports fans will sort of (maybe) like. 

Mike 

 

* This may very well have been a hallucination, but at one point I swear my cat called me retarded in a very menacing tone. Hence, my idle and shameful threats of food deprivation. For all those concerned, he is sitting next to me as I write this. Apparently, we are back to being the best of friends.
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Allison

 
I went to high school with The Moustache Rangers but never saw them perform
 
Posted by Allison on Monday, April 07, 2008 - 1:15 PM
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Mike Fotis

 
You should see them if you ever get a chance.
 
Posted by Mike Fotis on Monday, April 07, 2008 - 4:38 PM
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Catherine

 
Congrats on the website! You must feel deliriously happy about it right now.

Man, now I'm bummed I didn't go last night. I love the Moustache Rangers! Next time I will listen to that little voice of doubt.
 
Posted by Catherine on Monday, April 07, 2008 - 2:46 PM
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Mike Fotis

 
Thanks! I do!
 
Posted by Mike Fotis on Monday, April 07, 2008 - 4:39 PM
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Bree

 
I don't know if this is some kind of worldwide trend, or if I'm just suddenly hyper-aware of it, in that way that you never notice Honda Civic hatchbacks all over the city until you want to buy one, but wtf is with the seemingly random and sudden examples of "anything associated with female=bad" when it comes to me? In the last hour, I read your blog ("vagina disguised as a man"? seriously? you're a great writer but that's what you came up with?), watched a Zero Punctuation show where there were comparisons to female things used to be insults, and read a commentary on a ridiculous reporter's upsettedness at Obama for not proactively telling the world that he occasionally still smoked a cigarette, which used "sand in his va-jay-jay" to insult the (male) reporter.

Sorry you get the brunt of this incredulousness, but three in one hour and your comment function remains on.
 
Posted by Bree on Monday, April 07, 2008 - 2:47 PM
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Jenzie

 
Don't come see my show. You will yell at me for calling boys little girls, I know it.

Or doesn't it count if I also call the girls manly?
 
Posted by Jenzie on Monday, April 07, 2008 - 5:36 PM
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Bree

 
Are they supposed to be insults?
 
Posted by Bree on Monday, April 07, 2008 - 9:33 PM
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Jenzie

 
Yup. Billed as an offensive show.

I do find it interesting that it's more socially acceptable to be offended by someone saying a guy has a vagina than to call a woman a dick-wad.
 
Posted by Jenzie on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 4:43 AM
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Bree

 
Ok, again I just will reiterate that I don't find them offensive necessarily, just lazy.
 
Posted by Bree on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 4:46 AM
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Mike Fotis

 
Bree, I get the brunt of most people's everything, so it's no big deal. I'm sorry if I offended you. I'll be the first to admit that the line was a bit "locker-roomish". Tomorrow, I will try my darndest to come up with something that is man=bad.

My comment function will always be on. It's what makes blogging fun.
 
Posted by Mike Fotis on Monday, April 07, 2008 - 4:42 PM
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Bree

 
I'm not offended, more like baffled. It just seems like really...I don't know, 4-year-old-level insulting, like when they first discover that their mom doesn't like them to say the word "poop" in public. I also think it is kind of lazy, like using "fag" as a generic insult. It's just like, "really? You couldn't do better than that?" and you have previously set my expectations high.
 
Posted by Bree on Monday, April 07, 2008 - 9:32 PM
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Julie

 
It's only insulting if you consider expressing feelings openly negative. Crying when you finally accomplish something you felt was impossible is a reasonable human reaction and was associated with the female. It came across to me as playing on the common gender stereotypes of the stoic, repressed male and highly emotional female, the latter of which I find to be the more positive.

Maybe the vagina reference would have made more sense had there been a penis reference as well - let's have some genital equity here.

Don't get me wrong, I too am concerned that sexism is back in a big way, but I don't think this comment is on the same level as the other concerns (and quite legitimate ones) you have.
 
Posted by Julie on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 2:30 AM
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Bree

 
"It's only insulting if you consider expressing feelings openly negative."

I disagree. I think insults or things that are meant as insults can be insulting regardless of whether you agree with their premise. Like, I don't think that being compared to a female for whatever aspect of "typical" femaleness one wishes is insulting, but if someone means it as an insult, I may be insulted by their decision that it IS an insult.

Either way, I wasn't insulted or offended by the reference. Just baffled.
 
Posted by Bree on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 4:45 AM
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Mike Fotis

 
After 2.5 years, my blog is finally controversial.
 
Posted by Mike Fotis on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 6:11 AM
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LAURENACIOUS

 
Thank you for the sweetness. You got some honey of your own too Mr. Fotis.

Love!
 
Posted by LAURENACIOUS on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 6:36 PM
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