Hello Old Friends

[Mikey]

I am writing this e-mail as a thank you to the entire Philadelphia Improv community. It was less than 2 years ago that I started doing improv and during that time I was lucky enough to get to know many of you very well, at times way too well. I have a lot of great memories and stories to tell the folks up here. I consider many of you to be close friends of mine that I hopefully will not lose contact with. I guess this e-mail is a little out of character for me. With my rugged good looks many think that I am some kind of insensitive iconic "Marlboro Man" type figure, I am just like the rest of you, except for the rugged good looks God blessed me with. I guess my point is that I feel truly blessed to have shared the stage with, shared a bill with, watched and been watched by all of you. Most of you are welcome to come up and stay with me anytime you are in New York just PM me on here, all of you are welcome to come up and watch my two new projects when they launch later this year. I will be back to perfrom with Industrial over the next couple of months until I get up and running here and then I will only come down to make sure they are still on my special diet of cocaine and vodka.
I was very happy and proud to be in Philly when it got on the national radar as a new improv city, there is nothing but an upside to everything that is happening there now.

Thanks to everyone, see you soon! and as a great man once said. . .

"We keep the stage open, there's always something being offered to our guests. No glitz, no tits, just quality entertainment. "-Rip Taylor

 

[NathanLee]

You big lug!

Oh mikey...you marlboro-man-looking SOB. Seems like only last spring we were often facing the sunrise while finding means to maintain the INTENSITY! Wait. It WAS last spring!

Oh, those awkward moments when I thought you were hitting on me only to realize it was merely a ploy for me to steal booze from my housemates basement stash. You'll be missed!

The excessive sentimentality is returned two fold.

 

[Alonzo Mosley]

Wow. I had heard he was dead.

 

[Loki]

Yeah, I can't believe all that has happened in two years. Feels like so much longer, doesn't it?

Between being in a couple of groups together, planning two festivals, taking workshops, promoting shows, building the scene, working two blocks from each other, having countless lunches... I'm probably one of those you spent way too much time with. But in all that time, it was pretty remarkable to go between confident, excited, intense, worn out, frustrated and everything in the middle all the while never having the laughs stop. They were good times.

You are probably one of the most outspoken, frustrating, narcassistic and passionate friends I've had and I wouldn't have it any other way man.

It was apparent that you were bound to outgrow this place fast, and I hope that things work out for you there like they did here. You were a big part of what's happened here, and it's been a blast!

 

[ick1019]

Mikey

I have been replying to sentimental posts all morning, so I just cannot squeeze out even just ONE more.

Good luck man. You miss us already, this community with rugged good looks.