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The Pippin Project: You Decide!*^

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

My audition song will be “Happily Ever After.” Check out the YouTube video of Carol Burnett singing it in the original. People always tell my Mom she looks like Carol Burnett, and everyone tells me I look like my Mom. I don’t really see a resemblance between me and Carol, though, except for maybe the big facial expressions.

So, I’m near being done with this “project.” I have a LOT of homework to do, and the audition is Monday night. I’m going to be rushing there from school, so I won’t have time to be nervous. The last logistical thing is, I need a headshot. The only non-retouched (because why would you not let them airbrush you if it’s an option?) professional photos I have are the ones a photographer friend from college took as a gift after he crashed on my couch for a month. They’re two years old, but they still are close enough to what I look like that it’s what I’m going to use.

So, dear readers, which one of these should I use? Leave your vote in the comments. Thanks!

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*And a random afterthought: I might be able to use this article in my class on sight in the fall. Thanks again to everyone who sent me great suggestions for the syllabus. I post the article here because I’m procrastinating on finishing the syllabus while I think through what I want to include, and I don’t want to forget about it.

^ All photos © Ryan Burke 2007

New Story on Brain Harvest

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

There’s a new story up on Brain Harvest. And I was totally instrumental (in a non-instrumental, legally binding, or at all helpful way) in getting it there!

 Read it!