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This episode has been a long time coming and the TGN boys are thrilled to welcome David Concannon to the show. David is a highly specialized lawyer that works in and around adventuring, expeditions, diving, and more. He has been to the Titanic several times, was among the youngest people ever to join The Explorer’s Club, helped lead the expedition to recover the Apollo F-1 Rockets, and so much more (literally).

With Jason galavanting aboard a ship in the Pacific this week, the TGN Boys needed a someone to fill in and thankfully our pal Thomas Holland accepted the challenge. This is Thomas’ second time on the show (his debut was for episode 237) and he is one half of the hosting team of Throttle House, an incredible Youtube channel and online community dedicated to all things automotive. If you like cars you almost certainly already know Throttle House, but if not, be sure to hit the links below.

I first came across Dean Martin courtesy of my parents’ records. Later I saw him on The Dean Martin Show, then discovered his films and Rat Pack years. What was not to love? As a kid I sang his songs, as a youngster I wanted to be him, the King of Cool, suave, a ladies-man and funny, too. He could sing, he could dance, he could act (and Rio Bravo’s all …

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UPDATE: Join me for a reception and screening of Daughter of Shanghai at the Metrograph in NYC on March 14, 2024, where I’ll be in conversation with New Yorker writer Mayukh Sen. Sponsored in part by Asian CineVision and Yao King. Tickets available here (use code AMW40 at checkout for 40% off the annual membership). I pushed play on the first episode of Beef, the Netflix series starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, with not a little curiosity.

Note: Sitting here on a Sunday night, Day 4 of the worst sinus cold I’ve had in, like, forever. So, since I couldn’t actually attend any of the Hockey Hall of Fame festivities, I thought I would rank my top 10 Hall of Fame players’ classes of all-time. If there are any egregious omissions or errors, blame it on the Benylin. Not that there’s anything necessarily wrong with the Hockey Hall of Fame’s players’ Class of 2023, but let’s face it, the wow factor is a little lacking.

This is an improv post. Here’s the gist: Even though The Harold is a valuable teaching tool (sometimes), it’s not a good performance form (kinda ever). Yet it’s used… a lot! We need something better. Sorry, right. This is an improv post. Not everyone who reads this newsletter has done improv for a million years. The “Harold” is an improv structure (just like “the sonnet” is a poetry structure) developed at iO Chicago (and earlier) by Del Close.

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“Journeys end in lovers meeting.” This evocative line from Twelfth Night recurs throughout The Haunting of Hill House. But today our journey into this novel begins, with its deservedly classic first paragraph: “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.