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NEWS NEWS NEWS: I took advantage of a nice extended Memorial Day weekend to record sets of interviews with two improv friends, Peter Robinson and Dominique Millette. It was going to be just Peter, but seeing as Dominique is making the move to Portland OR, I had to grab the chance to record her improv magic to wax cylinder for posterity.

That means there are two episodes in post-production now, so they will be out in sequence pretty soon. The interviews covered supernatural surrogate testing for the 3%, two-dimensional food, literal transubstantiation, innovative aquatic dog-sled racing, and an English rap mogul with a range of hip-hop fox hunting gear. Keep watching the skies.

I also added another entry to the list of tools I use. The Random Name Generator at the name etymology website Behind The Name allows you to select what language and genre of name you want to create, and then it randomly generates as many silly or serious names as you need. Great for scripts, improvisation and the like!