Barbie at Comic-Con

Yesterday I spent the day at Comic-Con International in San Diego serving as Barbie’s professional photograher. I’ll let her walk us through these and provide captions. Take it away, Barbie!

Thanks, Corey! I’m sure a lot of you are wondering what a super-cute and cool chick like me was doing at “Nerd Vegas”. Normally I wouldn’t be caught dead there but that all changed this past weekend!

This is My Comic-Con Adventure!

It all started Friday night… I got back from shopping early and found Ken reading something weird. Like, gross weird.

That’s right, he was reading PORN! (And I think he was doing something with those big green fists, too.) (more…)

Hosting Comedy Walk this Thursday

25 different comedy acts. 6 downtown Los Angeles venues.

That’s right, six 90-minute comedy shows running at the same time.

This Thursday, July 10th, 8:30-10:00 PM, I will be hosting one of the six different rooms that will be chock full of a rotating roster of stand-up comics in this month’s Comedy Walk.

I will be in The Chicken Room (yes, yes, I know), Spring Arts Tower, 211 W. 5th Street, Los Angeles 90013 [Google Maps]. I’ll be starting things at 8:25 on the dot!

Comics on my stage will be Jason Dudey, Josh Rencher, Jackie Fabulous Champagnie, Roz Browne, Bruno Lucia, Tim Powers, Julia Louiza, Joe Bartnick and Larry Vazeos. (That’s a whole lotta links!)

Stop by… It’s FREE!

Tonight’s Viewing: The Princess Bride

Another movie I haven’t watched since I was a wee lad. Perhaps the best scene:

Some really fun writing in there.

Wallace Shawn is so great as the “genius” Vizzini. I love his bemused “hm” after being told about iocane powder, and his giddy excitement just before taking the final drink when he thought he’d won. Great deliveries throughout.

Poor Robin Wright had to sit there blindfolded through this entire scene. I wonder if she ever fell asleep.

And I’m pretty sure Prince Humperdinck and Count Rugen had a secret gay love affair going on. Obviously the true motivation behind his plot. This is the scene that tipped me off:

Oh the sub-text!

Stand and Fight – WalkMS 2008

On April 6th, 2008, the Walk MS event was held at the Pasadena Rose Bowl in southern California. Nahleen Blake, co-captain of the National MS Society’s TeamMS who has MS herself, walked to raise money to help find a cure for multiple sclerosis. She brought some cameras to follow her on the 5K walk.

Her team helped raise nearly $17,000 for the National MS Society. The event itself raised over $1.3 million.

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society funds more MS research than any other private organization. In addition to supporting studies which hope to reveal the cause and course of the disease, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society also provides much needed education, programs, and services to everyone who is affected by MS – including the diagnosed, their friends and families, and the healthcare professionals who work with them.

Please visit http://www.nmss.org for more information.
Please visit http://main.nationalmssociety.org/sit… for more information on the April 6th Walk.
Also, here’s more pictures from the Walk. 

The song used in this video is “Stand and Fight” by James Taylor from the 1981 album, Dad Loves His Work.

Post-Show Wrap-Up

Big thank you’s to everyone who showed up last night! It was a fun show even if people may never trust me with their pets ever again.

There will be another improv show next month July 12. I hope to see you then!

Your Ideas Intrigue Me

Would you like to sign up for my… Mailing List?

Golly gee gosh, I sure hope so. If so, click on that clickable part right there. The CoreyBlake.com Mailing List will be a good place to get announcements, show information, and other important stuff like that. For now, you can expect a new message once a month or less. If you don’t visit the site every day or so (although you should!) and would rather not get notified of every blog posting, this is the way to go. You’ll be kept up to date on all of the good stuff without getting inundated with messages.

I’ve also set up new subscription options for the blog thanks to Feedburner.com. You can be notified of new posts either through your RSS reader of choice or through email.

And for those reading this through Facebook, I realize that videos and pictures don’t usually show up for you, which probably results in something about as coherent as hearing a quarter of a conversation. Until some kind of remedy is discovered by the Internet Gods, you’re just going to have to click on the “View original post” link at the bottom to make any sense of it all. Sorry. (I also realize that Facebook frequently turns punctuation into cartoon swearing. Lame, I know.)

Besides all of that Internetosity, don’t forget about my improv show this Saturday night at The Spot. I’d love to see you there!

A Spacey Adventure

Here’s something I did several years ago:

YouTube Description: This Star Trek: The Next Generation parody was created by using computer imaging based on the actors’ faces. Fun Little Movies founder Frank Chindamo created this pilot for mobile phones. Face2Face provided the CGI and interpreted the actors’ facial expressions. Corey Blake played the Data character.

Improv(‘)ing this Saturday June 14

This Saturday at 8:00 PM, I will be performing with The Magic Meathands in a FREE-FREE-FREE show at The Spot Café & Lounge! The Bill Johnson that isn’t a racist lawyer who just lost his bid to become a California Superior Court Judge will be leading us once again.

These shows are always lots of fun, both for the performers and the audience (that’s you!). So stop on by and enjoy some improv that’s actually pretty dang good!

Bring your laughs!

Comic Shop Experience

The Australian band Tripod has tapped into a universal experience so eloquently that it must be shared.

(Thanks to Richard Starkings for sending this to me.)

Tonight’s Viewing: The Muppet Movie

Seeing this movie again for the first time in years tonight.

Post-viewing UPDATE: Even better than I remembered! I never realized when I was a kid how many cameos there are in The Muppet Movie.

One part made me re-think everything I know about all things Muppet.

The above image is from the scene of Kermit and Piggy’s first date with a cameo by Steve Martin as a pantless and annoyed waiter. Check out the moon. Is it sky blue with white clouds? On the DVD, you can even make out earth-toned colors. I swear, it’s Earth.

Do you realize what this means?

The Muppet Universe takes place in an alternate reality very similar to our own but with one significant difference – life exists on the moon and the Earth is a deserted planet!

Who knew Jim Henson was into sci-fi and speculative fiction? It sure explains Pigs In Space.