Tag: improv
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Improv Grad — March 4, 2024
🧩 Today’s Puzzle Pieces 🧩Redemption🎶Long COVID😷Play Time 🎤 THE DAILY UPDATE The song in my head when I woke up: “Redemption Song,” by Bob Marley Favorite line from the song in my head when I woke up: Won’t you help me sing/These songs of freedom/’Cause all I ever had/Redemption songs Morning Tunes: No commute today,…
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The Road to ‘Yes … and’ — Feb. 9, 2024
🧩 Today’s Puzzle Pieces 🧩Breaking 🎶Love Anyway ❤️Why Improv🎤 THE DAILY UPDATE The song in my head when I woke up: Today’s song? “Breaking Inside” by Shinedown (Ever since I was a little boy, I would wake up with a song running through my head. Here I will list the songs I wake up with,…
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Small Ear Canals — Feb. 8, 2024
🧩 Today’s Puzzle Pieces 🧩Punk 🎶Crypto-explainer ₿Real Marriage👂 THE DAILY UPDATE The song in my head when I woke up: Today’s song? “Blurry” by Puddle of Mudd (Ever since I was a little boy, I would wake up with a song running through my head. Oftentimes, the song didn’t even wait until I woke up.…
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Hoops Coaching — Feb. 7, 2024
🧩 Today’s Puzzle Pieces 🧩Get-Up Motivation 🌞Intellectual Property 🧠Hoop Dreams 🏀 I’ve decided to try something new in The Puzzle Known As Life. Not sure why. This section of my site has always been about just sort of trying to figure things out, so it makes sense that it would evolve over time. Let’s get…
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Living — April 19, 2023
🧩 Today’s Puzzle Pieces 🧩Alive vs. Living 😔Dental Thoughts 🦷Pronouns 🧑🤝🧑 I am 48 years old, and I realized something today: I have no idea how to live life. This isn’t to suggest I don’t know how to stay alive. I’m OK at that. But the finer points of relationships and communication and working my…
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Team Thanos — April 18, 2023
🧩 Today’s Puzzle Pieces 🧩Awww, Snap 😏Office Flood 🌊Potty Mouth 🚽 Boy The Younger is like his old man in a lot of ways. One is that, if we experience something cool, we have a pathological need to have others experience its awesomeness as well. It wounds my soul when I share my music or…
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Falling Down — April 17, 2023
🧩 Today’s Puzzle Pieces 🧩Fuck Carvana 🚗Stupid Tooth 🦷Cave Woman 😠 I am a huge fan of the 1993 movie Falling Down. The movie stars Michael Douglas. Interesting side note: I once umpired a Little League baseball game for his son and called him out on strikes, which led to a crying temper tantrum. His,…
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Toxic Positivity — April 14, 2023
🧩 Today’s Puzzle Pieces 🧩Stop Being So (Fake) Happy 😊The Better Choice ✔️Checkmate, Motherfucker ♛ I’m not exactly what anyone would call an optimist. Perhaps it’s because I see the world too clearly these days to think that we’re headed anywhere close to the right direction. Some would call me a pessimist, and I’m OK…
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Sorry, Please Continue — March 9, 2023
🧩 Today’s Puzzle Pieces 🧩Podcast Appearance 🎙️The Birth Control Pill Story 🐶Good Tired 🥱 If you would have asked me a few years ago whether I could ever envision myself on a stage in the back room of a dive bar sharing a story about how my dog ate six months of birth control pills…
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Top 5 Reasons I Might Not Suck At Improv
Welcome to Issue No. 15 of Listicles, the feature that presents the Top 10, Top 5, Top 3, Top 100 or Top 1,000,000 of whatever it is you want to know about. Email your Listicle suggestions to johnagliata@gmail.com. In just more than five weeks, I’ll be heading down to The Improv Shop in St. Louis…
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Joe(y) the Comedian — Dec. 18, 2022
🧩 Today’s Puzzle Pieces 🧩‘Cousin’ Laughs🎤Improv!?!? 🎭Drake Hoops 🏀 Back when I was a boy, I had a favorite Cousin-Who-Wasn’t-A-Cousin. His name was Joey DeVito, and he was in no way a blood relation to me, though I called his father Uncle Frankie and his mother Aunt Celia. I’m pretty sure this is an East…