Up the Tree

Author: Funtime Ben

  • Nero by Little Tybee

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDzIYQlNBXw Nero by Little Tybee Needed a pick-me-up after the events of last week. Really looking forward to their new album out April 5th on Paper Garden Records.

  • Japan Earthquake

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    I’m not religious, but when catastrophe of this magnitude strikes I can’t help but send whatever my closest approximation of prayers are, to the people of Japan. This earthquake is truly horrifying and my thoughts go out to everyone effected. Please take a moment and give to the Red Cross.

  • Back to the Way It Used to Be

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    Recently I’ve been on project overload. Too many things to focus on and not enough time to complete them all. One of my major stress points was figuring out which blog I should be using to talk about my life. I have one for work, one for personal work, one for documenting my improvisation studies,…

  • 28 Days Later, A Month Without Booze

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    Unless you are super into football, or a successful movie mogul, or just got a new boyfriend/girlfriend, or your birthday happens to fall in February, the month is by and large forgettable. The cold, the lapsed new year’s resolutions, the overwhelming feeling of futility; February sucks. The only saving grace of February is that it…

  • Long Live Pepper

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    Early on in dating my first serious post-college girlfriend in Brooklyn, somewhere in the days of 2002, she adopted a cat named Pepper. Pepper was the troublesome ward of one of our improv classmates Amaya, who had gotten Pepper to keep her ailing cat Sherman in better spirits. Sherman, the elder statesman of the house,…