Thursday, May 19, 2022

Improv, Speech Contests and Brain Freezes - all in a day's work at EarlyBirds!



Dear Members, Friends and Guests:

Always a master at innovation,  DTM Kip led us with an intro speech about the Rules of Improv.  Who knew there were any??  It turns out improv is as premeditated as it gets...

Then he led us in improv Table Topics.   We found out that...

* DTM Kip's wife gives him a light breakfast which prompts him to head to his favorite grocery store in search of mystery meat to feed his hunger...
* I, Ana, select low salt mystery turkey and head for my car to eat it to gather energy for endless errands to be completed;
* TM Scott overcomes mystery meat indigestion by heading for Costcoooo, where shopping is the REAL pleasure...
* TM Aleta instead heads to Pam's Club where shopping is truly a chimera...
* DTM Jim D. eats tofu in disguise and shoots iguanas, which by the way taste just like chicken...
* TM Jim G. backpacks it down the hill to the Italian market, where road signs are only suggestions and hand gestures prevail.
* TM Paolo says forget big grocery chains in Italy, simply listen to the calls for "Pesce fresco, insalata fresca" and make it a family event...He Won Best Table Topics award.
* Guest Val will start food shopping at the international market, where turkey smells like turkey and not like mystery trypto-cellophane.
* TM Pam became DTM Kip's improv wife who sends him out to float around the universe while she engages in mystery activities at home.

In the prepared speeches...

* TM Paolo reminisced about his off-the-charts adrenalin rush while soaring like an eagle and riding a gondola at the speech contests.
* TM Tom had a brain freeze, was rescued by improv mentors and grew where he was planted.    He Won Best Speaker Award.

Regarding Evaluations....

* TM Pam encouraged DTM Kip to re-tell his speech and join Miami City Ballet as an improv primo ballerino.
* TM Scott marveled that TM Paolo's contest prize was transformation into mic checker expertise.  He Won Best Evaluator Award.
* TM Aleta officially appointed TM Tom name successor of legendary actor John Fayne.  

The Word of the Day was

CHIMERA, noun  (Kye-mee-rah)

An illusion, improbable

Example:  Today's EarlyBird meeting was decidedly a good chimera.



See you next week!

Ana I.
Recap Writer 

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