Blog-o-STIFF

I <3 the Lusty Lady

IMG_3836, originally uploaded by Clint Berquist.

I spoke with KEXP Comedy Bloger Corbett Cummings the other night and he told me that he had this image in his head about the person who puts the marquee up at the Lusty Lady as a lonely comedian who he would love to see get some stage time. In past years, the LL has been kind enough to give STIFF a shout out on their marquee, but this one is by far my favorite. With Moby playing across the street at the Showbox on Sunday night as part of STIFF, it couldn't have been any better. Thanks!

Get to Know your Program Director

We are coming up on the 1 year anniversary of our Program Director, Brian Shelley’s wedding, which means that I am running out of time to give a wedding gift.  It was my goal to finish editing their wedding DVD before then and since it just went out to the replicator last week, I think I’ll make it by the skin of my teeth. 

One of my favorite things to edit was the slideshow of his bachelor party.  A group of us went to the Austin City Limits Festival and while nobody wanted to bring a video camera around for the weekend, we did end up taking quite a few pictures.   This probably won’t be as much fun if you weren’t there, but it should give you an idea about the man who was in charge of putting together the STIFF 2008 Program.  Yes, as a matter of fact that IS a Grateful Dead tattoo that he shares with two other semi-regretful men and no, I don’t think I ever would have become friends with him had I known about it beforehand.  If you see him at the STIFF this year, please ridicule him ask him to show it to you.  Bass in your face,  Brian.

Who's a Hairy Bear?

One interesting thing about social networking sites is the ability to re-connect with people from your past.  Recently, one of my old friends sent this link to me

http://www.manpaper.com/ViewCelebInfo_18277.html

Before yesterday, I had never even heard of Manpaper but apparently they have heard of me.   After the initial shock of thinking that they had run across some photo from my past, my first thought was that Manpaper had some pretty relaxed standards for what they considered a “celebrity”.  My second thought was, “who in their right mind would seek out nude pictures of my big, hairy butt?”  I would think that gay men looking for nude photos of Tom Welling, Leondaro DiCaprio and Brad Pitt would probably be pretty disappointed to run across photos of me instead. 

Then, I started to put two and two together.  Manpaper must just be scraping data from imdb and Youtube.  It is kind of cool to see recent videos that I have shot posted in one place (despite the fact that they have been posted on several different accounts), but I’m not really sure how Andy Peters would like to see his face above a link to “Check if Clint Berquist has ever posed Nude”.  I guess he’d have a sense of humor about it at least.  Manpaper wants you to pay for the privilege of knowing whether or not there are any nudies circulating.  I’d love to just post the darn thing, but I promised my wife that it would never see the light of day ever again. So, this will have to do. Try not to get your keyboard too sticky J

"Back when drugs were cheap..."

Something fun I shot awhile back just landed on Youtube...