College Football: USC over Oklahoma 55-19, Orange Bowl, January 4, 2005
Superbowl XXXIX: New England Patriots over the Philadelphia Eagles 24-21, February 6, 2005
World Series:
Highest Grossing Film: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Best Picture: Crash
Even though, by this time, I was firmly entrenched in improv and the Un-Scripted Theater Company, this year was marked by my trip to Italy to see my play The Lake performed in Bologna. There I learned that it's possible to cringe at my own bad writing even in a language I don't speak. Still, it was a fabulous production that the audience seemed to really enjoy. I took a week or so to tool around Italy. The trip was highlighted by a drive to a castle in the Italian countryside while listening to Emmylou Harris, and few days at Cinque Terre:
2006
College Football: Texas over USC 41-38, Rose Bowl January 4, 2006
Superbowl XL: Pittsburgh Steelers over the Seattle Seahawks 21-10, February 5, 2005
World Series: St. Louis Cardinals over the Detroit Tigers 4 games to 1, October 27, 2005
Highest Grossing Film: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Best Picture: The Departed
I spent the better part of this year writing my novel, The Deadworks. I was able to do this because in March I left MerryMakers after almost 8 years and spent the rest of the year generally unemployed and enjoying it. I went to Woodstock, NY for a month on a writing retreat at Byrdcliffe where I finished the first draft of the novel. Then in the fall I worked a whole season of Ren Faire and followed it up with an award-winning turn in the Crummles at Dickens Faire. While at Byrdcliffe, the other artists nicknamed the spot on the lawn where I did most of my writing "Boggy Hollow". Then one of the painters made me this lovely sign:
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