So I’m leaving Portland soon for 14 weeks of field research. I’m studying the wild long form improviser in its native habitat, an urban center. I picked up my Portland State University business cards which read Brad Fortier Anthropologist I giggled a bit picturing myself in a pith helmet in Rochester finding an interpreter whoContinue reading “Business Card reality.”
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The Last Laugh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJdeSOo-rasHere’s that film I linked to earlier
My first big film role
Well, not that big, but fun nonetheless. Take the four minutes to check it out.
Brody Theater hits cable access.
Sooner or later, you hit it big……on cable access.
Brody in the News
Check it. Some props for the Brody Theater, yo.
24 hour play at the CoHo.
This is what a lack of sleep can lead to……
Cowboy Limbo
So I was stuck in Pendleton, OR (Home of the “Round Up”, the world’s fourth largest rodeo) over the 4th of July. It’s about 200 miles east of Portland up in the high desert. There’s a short in the wiring of my truck somewhere that won’t let me get more than 30 miles from anywhere. Continue reading “Cowboy Limbo”
Out on my own.
Well, I’m setting my own deadlines on school work these days. It’s disorienting suddenly realizing that I actually need to get to preparing my first serious ethnographic project. I’ve got the next couple of weeks to firm up all of my ideas and methods for my research in Rochester this fall. Then I have toContinue reading “Out on my own.”
Seattle Int’l Improv Fest
So I was part of the Seattle Int’l Fest this year. Usually this festival is challenging, fun, and even sublime in the caliber of work that comes out onstage. It also usually has a fairly even spread of Europeans and Canadians to Americans. That wasn’t the case this year. I did have a great timeContinue reading “Seattle Int’l Improv Fest”
Grad Student Curse
So I have absolutely no plans until 10:30pm tonight when I’ll do an improvised radio show. The only thing I can think to do is homework. This is a good thing, BUT I have lost all semblance of a social life because of two years of grad school. Because I have had to refuse soContinue reading “Grad Student Curse”