Addendum!

Hector Berlioz was obsessed with an Irish actress, Harriet Smithson, for whom he wrote Symphony Fantastique. Which is a really freaky-deaky symphony, telling the story of an artist who is filled with ennui until he sees this woman who becomes the idee fixe for the rest of the symphony. Then the artist in question:

• Goes to a ball, where he broods
• Goes out to a field, where he broods, and decides she's betrayed him
• Gets all hopped up on opium, and hallucinates that he's killed her (best movement EVER) and is condemned to be executed. His final thought is of her, which is interrupted by the orchestra playing the WHUMP chord to represent the guillotine falling, then the timpani rolls to represent the head rolling around, and meanwhile everybody's playing triumphant "BA DA! BA DA! Dadada!" stuff. It's great.
• And if that's not enough, he imagines a witches' orgy, which is his funeral (the Dies Irae is in here), where the girl shows up and joins in.

How awesome is that?

And then you've got Obsession, the perfume or cologne, or whatever. Right? Get it? Get it? Anybody? Damn.

Bob Bob Bo Bob, Bananna Fanna Fo Fob...

I was driving to work today, and I saw a group (gaggle? mob? flock?) of Mormons in a Saturn Ion. At least, they looked like Mormons. I didn't pull close enough to them on the expressway to gauge their theological beliefs, really. ANYWAY, I thought "Saturn Full of Mormons," was a good name for a show or team. Especially if edited to, let's say "Volkswagen Full of Mormons," or something. Which leads me to post the old ideas for team names. So, here:

-[Vehicle] Full of Mormons
-Pope Urban, the Urban Pope
-Purple Line Express
-Lower Wacker
-Hector Berlioz's Obsession
-Toby/Betty
-Hey, Socrates!
-Death By Circumlocution
-Disfluencies
-Deo Gratias
-Hippos Go Berzerk
-Book of Bob (duh)
-Yo' Mob is So Fat...
-Que?

Any of these work as a show title? (i.e. Book of Bob presents "Hector Berlioz's Obsession")

Anybody want to add funny things?

Oh, the Office Fun...

Mike and I at work:

Mike> Are we the only ones in the office?

Tom> Yeah.

Mike> Great! Let's improvise.

Tom> Yeah, right. Your suggestion is 'Shut up.'

Mike> Ha ha! Oh, that's precious... trails off

Tom> Let's never speak of this again.

Prologue: The Hell?

Hello! Welcome to the inagural post of the Book of Bob weblog. Book of Bob has thus far been a two-person improv team/show/whatever. The future of Bob is sketch/improv/animal husbandry. Maybe not the last bit. The plan is to chronicle our ideas/experiences/flyaway thoughts, both good and... less good here for God and the world to see. Plus, bookofboblog.blogspot.com is hilarious to say. And Bobslog.blogspot.com? We're coming for you. PLUS, you can say Book of Bo Blog, and it's really weird. But I thought it was easier than saying bookofbobblog. Two bs? Weird. I should get that url and point it to this, anyway, shouldn't I? Anyway, enjoy, and wish us luck.

[Edit: I like this title better. 7/14 9:05 AM]