Welcome

by admin on January 20, 2011

Thanks for stopping by to check out my blog. My name is Robert Britt, and I’ll be your host for the remainder of the flight. I am a writer, actor and comedian and for fun I like to do consulting work for manufacturing facilities.  Feel free to book me for any of the above. This blog is filled with my observations, rants and soliloquies. (I don’t even know what that last one means)

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What happened to my favorite t shirt?

by admin on May 9, 2013

For many years I wore my Ramones “Rockaway Beach” t shirt. It wasn’t anything too special in appearance, but it evoked memories of seeing the Ramones at a small club in Texas. So small in fact that there was no stage, but a velvet rope separated the band from the audience and I was standing right next to that rope only a foot or two from Joey and Dee Dee.

Enjoyed the show and escaped to the parking lot only to find one of my side mirrors broken and blood splattered across the hood of my Samurai. Guess someone was having a bad hair day. But I digress.

The crux of the matter is, what happened to my Rockaway beach shirt? And all my favorite t-shirts? I’ve fluctuated between having only tshirts and having hardly any t shirts worth wearing – nothing of interest anyway. A plain t-shirt is pretty much boring isn’t it? Or it’s classy. Not thinking I want to be either of those necessarily.

But the Rockaway Beach t shirt is gone. Gone to T shirt Hell perhaps, or more likely just worn to bare threads and discarded. But I have no memory of throwing it out. Or my old Scorpions t shirt. Man I loved that t shirt with Klaus leaning over the mic and glaring (positively glaring) at anyone who dared to make eye contact.

Concerts come and go and so do t shirts I guess.

Facing facts I know that many of my old favorites just probably fell apart from being worn way too often. But I still wonder, did I give those to goodwill during a purge? Could they have fallen into a crack or been stolen?

Now that I am thinking about it I am pretty sure I lost that Scorpions t shirt on the Salt River when I was tubing. Lost is the wrong word. I “traded” t-shirts with a pretty girl floating the river. In my head I was going to see her topless (that was the point of the trade) but she did one of those girl tricks and managed to get my shirt while retaining hers. Kind of like someone taking off their bra through contortions while leaving their shirt on. Woman magic. Houdini would be proud, and his brother Hardini would be jealous.

I used to have a home-made Clash sweatshirt, but that’s another story…

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Charleston International Film Festival

April 28, 2013

It has been a pretty interesting weekend filled with interesting people and interesting places. (can you hear me channeling Bugs Bunny as he’s doing the monster’s hair? Can you? ) But seriously being involved with the Charleston International Film Festival as a volunteer has been fantastic. It gets my creative juices flowing seeing other people [...]

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Folly Beach, Surfing and Biker Chicks

April 2, 2013

Glad to see the weather getting nicer. We went down to the beach last evening after I got home from work. 65 degrees sounds like a pleasant temperature, but with the wind it wasn’t especially comfortable. Much better once I put on a sweatshirt. May sound a bit odd being on the beach with a [...]

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The Mousetrap

March 7, 2013

Been really busy for the past few weeks. Between working at MUSC and stage managing Mousetrap at Threshold Rep my time has been too full and I think I might be sleep deprived. Luckily the show will be starting in another week and then time will be getting back to nearly normal. currently I am [...]

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Stop Waiting, Start Doing

February 17, 2013

So I was putting off watching a video on procrastinating (True story) and when I went to take a look it turned out to be an article and not the 20 minute video I was expecting. Why was I expecting a video? I guess wires got crossed inside my brain. It happens. But the one [...]

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A resolution and a challenge

February 12, 2013

You never know how much you can do until you push yourself. And once you realize what you can do, are you willing to make the ongoing effort to push on until you have accomplished your goals? And once you have accomplished those goals, do you reevaluate and set new goals? A few heavy thoughts [...]

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A new dawn

January 17, 2013

Well, it’s a new year and things have changed pretty dramatically since last year. Just celebrated one year at MUSC. 6 months in my temp position and now six months in the full time “regular” employment. Also turned 50 this year and not really sure how I feel about that. Seems like I should have [...]

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The science of reincarnation

December 8, 2012

So Zack was looking for a book to read, but wanted non-fiction, so I had to think what I had that might interest him. I have a bunch of psychology-type books – one of my favorites is “when rabbit howls” an account of multiple personalities.. But he wasn’t looking for something like that, so I [...]

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Inspiration and Motivation

December 5, 2012

Over the past weekend we were lucky enough to have a houseguest. The strange part was that she was a stranger to us. The first we had heard of Rachel Lynn Sebastian she was less than a voice on the phone. Her aunt was calling to see if we wanted to host a house concert. [...]

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Folly Beach and Thanksgiving

November 21, 2012

Another year has rolled around and here we are at Thanksgiving again. I am grateful for many things – family, a good job, enough to eat, great city to live in and proximity to Folly Beach. Get a free Folly sticker here.   Folly is just one of the things that make us happy. It’s [...]

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