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Upcoming: Uncovering Oklahoma’s Date Guide Book

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On February 5, 2012

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While there’s been a lack of updates on the Uncovering Oklahoma web site, I certainly have been working for it. The result is the Uncovering Oklahoma Date Guide book. The book will be released later this week in the iBookstore for the iPad. I’ve been wanting to create a date idea book for some time now, but the practicality of printing a book has killed that notion until Apple released the iBooks Author application. I downloaded it the day it was released and started work on the book.

I’m really proud and happy with how the first edition turned out. There are over 25 different ideas for dates with sections on Oklahoma City, Bricktown, and Norman. There are photographs from every place and quotes from people as to why they think a place makes for a great date. The book was written for all types of couples and with all types of dates in mind. Future editions will include even more ideas and expand to other cities, including Tulsa. I’m barely scratching the surface, but I have to start somewhere.

As soon as it’s available, I will make an announcement of my first published book. Yay!

Another thing I’m proud about? My milage log for January. I’ve traveled for business more in that month than any other month I’ve traveled for business. The log includes stuff for the date guide book, the [Wild] Improv Challenge, and a mysterious new show that I have yet to announce here. Yay for being productive!

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Yay!

Extreme Improv Challenge #4

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On January 31, 2012

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Ann-Lisette Caveny takes the extreme improv challenge where she has to guess as many spooky characters as she can in five minutes. The challenge becomes an endurance for everyone to keep the monsters coming as the clock drains down. Watch the hilarious video to see just how many and what monsters Ann-Lisette guesses while waiting for her ride in a dark alley under a full moon.

Dennis’ Commentary: Ann-Lisette was supposed to say “wild” improv challenge like in the first three videos, but instead she said “extreme.” Instead of correcting it, I ran with it and from this video forward, I had improvisers make up the description describing the challenge. That’s how the show’s name changed from wild to [wild]. Adding the counter and timer to the video took hours, but was totally worth it. I also didn’t expect this challenge to become a fast blast of monster guessing game. Instead, I thought it would’ve been slower with the characters being fleshed out more. Overall, I love how this challenge turned out and I hope you enjoyed it too.

P.S. This challenge was honestly filmed during a full moon night.

Wild Improv Challenge #3

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On January 23, 2012

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Alyssa and Bryan Buckley of Red Letters were challenged to be in a buddy cop film by pulling out cop archetypes from my hat and then venture out to “bust some punks.” Bryan played a hyper-active cop while Alyssa played the stereotypical black cop. Wade Martin and Kenny Madison of Good Cop/Nice Cop end up on the receiving end of Red Letter’s justice crusade.

This is the first challenge where I used a hat and pulling out the suggestions live. This was a great video and everyone played their characters wonderfully.

Rock Paper Scissors Interview

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On January 22, 2012

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Friday night I interviewed Denise Duong and Matt Seikel on their new show, “Rock Paper Scissors: Based on a True Story,” on display at Science Museum Oklahoma. Today I published the video along with a few pictures and the press release at Uncovering Oklahoma. The full article can be found here.

On the subject of Uncovering Oklahoma, I am writing a Date Guide book! Looks like I’m going to have a book published in February after all. 🙂 I’m working hard to get it done in time for February, when everyone is looking for date ideas. I’m going to get back to work on the book now, so I’ll share more about the writing process when I’m finished.

Wild Improv Challenge #2!

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On January 16, 2012

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Sue Ellen Reiman and Jonathan Shane McClure (both from Everybody and Their Dog) perform an improvised Birthday song for Raychel Winstead. They had to include two topics in their song, which Raychel chose from numbers 2 (zombies) and 8 (the government is watching us). The numbers made up the date of her birth.

Missed last week’s challenge? What to know when future videos will be published? Visit the [Wild] Improv Challenge page.

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