I’m currently in the process of brainwashing myself. What’s that quote that Albert Einstein didn’t say? Oh yeah…”The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” That’s it! So why is it that our subconscious, or the crazy voice in our heads,…
I’m sitting here staring at my voice over booth. Yeah, I have a booth. No money coming in but by God I have a booth! As I sit here, I’m wondering what the hell am I’m doing! This is feeling a bit out of control. I keep telling myself, “Karin,…
I have a problem. A laundry problem. A co-tenant in my apartment who apparently thinks that the laundry belongs to her problem. Setting the stage here. This is a 7 unit building with 6 units using the same washer/dryer. And there is only one set. So, in order to efficiently…
Unless you are a rabid pool player, you know, like you’re a normal ass person, it was something you only see in the movies. You see it all the time there. Heck, it was the basis of the movie “The Color of Money”. It’s the reason I like the song…
I was standing at the self-checkout at Fred Meyers, ringing up my items, when I got to purchasing the balloons. I had ordered two mylar birthday balloons for our apartment building get together for two birthdays. They were filling up the balloons for me and I was to pick them…
When I was in the Navy, I lived, for a time, in a vacation apartment on the coast of Sicily. I also dating this guy. Now, I don’t remember much about that guy. I don’t remember his name, or what he looked like. The clearest memory was of him being…
I had Voice Over class on Tuesday night, and I found myself acting strangely. I wasn’t taking it seriously and managed to convince myself that I didn’t need to do the work on the scripts that was required and that I would just naturally be able to do it. Well,…
It’s been a rough year and a half. For me, it’s been longer, a lot longer. A lot of things have happened and there is a need to have a retrospective for each. This is not the actual retrospective; this is more about me sorting through everything so I can…
The following are three monologues coming out of The Sketch School’s Writing Party Summer Soiree. In it we were given three prompts. We choose one, had 10 minutes to write a monologue and then shared it with the group. I went ahead and wrote the other three later. You can…
AI, Artificial Intelligence, is on our minds. HAL, the malfunctioning AI from 2001: A Space Odyssey that needed to be shut down. Skynet, the self-aware AI in The Terminator that engaged in genocide to survive. The Matrix, AI that has judged humans as viruses and use them as copper-top batteries.…