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Turning the Page

January 14, 2012 Leave a comment

I worked as a CBS page for about a year (October 2010 through October 2011), and now that I’ve been officially hired in a new job, my page days are over. So as a farewell to my friends in the page program I made this video, which includes me trying to play piano and sing, which I can hardly do one at a time, let alone together. If you aren’t a page, some of the references may be a little confusing. But here it is anyway.

I will sorely miss being a page, and I will look back fondly on my time in the red blazer. I included some pictures and another video after the jump.

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Well After We’re Crushed Under Priuses

January 8, 2012 1 Comment

A realistic projection of what it takes to become a professional TV comedy writer coming from someone barely in the infancy of his writing career. Read on if you’re tired of the same generalizations and cliche statements about how making it in showbusiness is impossible. (It’s not… you’ll just be very old if/when it happens.)

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True Story: The Blazer

August 16, 2011 1 Comment

Here is the video of my performance at the True Story: Risky Business event last Thursday. My friends may recognize the story about some risky behavior from my past… though the names have been changed. Thank you to Debbie Friedman for being such a great host, and to the audience for being so receptive. And make sure to catch future True Story events in September!

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The Boys’ Prank

January 28, 2011 2 Comments

This weekend is the one-year anniversary of the most well-executed prank I can claim to have participated in. Whatever pranks you have pulled or fallen victim to in your lifetime, I doubt any of them can compare to the ingenuity and obscenity of our spectacle. Read on.

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My favorite search terms

January 24, 2011 2 Comments

To celebrate this blog’s 10,000th page view, I have listed below some of the most intriguing/bizarre search terms that people typed into search engines and discovered eavoss.com as a result. So many questions over what was running through people’s minds as they typed these, but even more questions over what these say about my blog. Oh well. Happy 10,000 Page Views, everyone!

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Youth-sized

January 21, 2011 1 Comment

I recently discovered an old shirt soaked in a memory from my innocent past. Here, a cautionary tale of misdirected admiration, the slow journey into manhood, and why keeping your mouth shut is often the safer option.

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The Rise and Fall of the TSF House

December 27, 2010 4 Comments

Normally at the end of each year I write a top-ten list or an epic narrative recap of the whole year. This year, one theme has been featured more prominently than any other: redefining one’s notion of home. Below I tell the story of a house, which, despite serving as my home for only two months, was nevertheless the primary setting for a dynamic year within a group of friends.

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What’s in a laugh?

October 11, 2010 1 Comment

An analysis of the various sounds of human laughter, and a personal case study that asks why it seems that some people have multiple different “laughs” that they use on a regular basis.