In Other News

Oh. Yesterday? Phenomenal.

Hopped on the Metro to Chinatown, met Amanda in plenty of time to get to the Studio. We were like a pair of kids in a candy store. She put it best-- it was entirely out of her scope of experience. Yes, she’s been on stage before, and knows the acting world… but this was a completely different arena.

Getting in the studio, seeing the process behind the scenes… having Karen and I banter back and forth in character (with Karen scoring the majority of palpable hits)… just great.

It gets very warm in the recording booth: No fan or AC (either of which would make unwelcome noise). I ended up takin’ off my shirt, it was so freaking warm in there. Still had an undershirt on, of course, but I didn’t wanna get any hotter than I already was.

The recording went great. In addition to the episodes, Dark Marker had some lines of discouragement for the end of an interactive game, if the player loses too many points. It should come as little surprise that I got a bit carried away:

“Sorry, kiddies! Tell mom and dad not to splurge the college fund just yet! That Academic Scholarship isn’t looking quite so likely.” Followed by derisive laughter, or course.

After hours of this, we made our way to Sonoma. For the third consecutive visit, we were seated at the exact same table. We may have to install a tiny plaque or something: Official site of the Aught Six Round Table. HAH.

All in all, it was a spectacular day. Start to finish.

Have a good one, folks. I know I plan to.