May 2013
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Gloria's Box
Check out this week’s Screen Shots on Peaches & Hot Sauce or… read below!
Jess here.
Each holiday season at my elementary school, we’d eagerly prepare for the ‘holiday’ concert. A chance to celebrate the joy and good tidings of the season and perform for our parents. It was called a holiday concert because there was one song about Hanukkah, which sounded much like the Imperial...
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An Open Letter to the Tourists of Michigan Avenue
Dear Tourists,
Thank you so much for spending your hard earned vacation time in our wonderful city. Welcome! As someone who lives in the neighborhood, I thought I’d offer a few quick tips and tricks to make sure you get the most out of your time in the Windy City. This is all based off of behavior I’ve noticed these past few weeks, so I hope you find it helpful. Enjoy!
Pay...
Mayor of Toronto in 'crack cocaine' video scandal... →
And you thought Toronto was all CN Towers and clean streets. Holy. Freaking. Crap.
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SHAKIRA IS LEAVING THE VOICE. CHRISTINA IS COMING...
Fine. US Weekly reported it first. Details, details. Well. We don’t know what to think or how to sort out our feelings quite yet. All we know is that we love The Voice to a fault. Feel free to leave your feelings in the comments.
Jess will be spending the rest of the day working out her emotions. I wouldn’t be surprised to see more from her later. WHAT A WEDNESDAY! WHAT A WORLD!
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Covered in Crumbs
This week’s Screen Shots are up! Check it out on Peaches and Hot Sauce here! (or… just read below)
As you get older, your hangovers get worse. This is something I’m learning. Over and over and over again.
In college I would go to the bar on Tuesdays for ”Mexican Night” (no joke) and drink all the $2 tequila shots my little heart desired! THEN I WOULD DANCE!...
Screen Shots | Peaches and Hot Sauce →
Screen Shots Who are we? One petite, loudmouthed, Canadian + one blonde, frequently drunk, Midwesterner = Dinner With Stu. These are some of our text messages and thoughts on life. Unfortunately… all of them are real. Check us out at dinnerwithstu.com.
Screen Shots is here! Read our first contribution to the article section on Peaches and Hot Sauce. Screen Shots will be out each...
April 2013
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Improvisation Course Catalog, by Matt Payton -... →
Our friend Matt wrote this. It’s… well… very true. Just go to Mullen’s in Wrigleyville or Corcoran’s in Old Town between 10pm and midnight any night of the week to see just how true this is. What a cold harsh look in the improvisational mirror (good thing Dinner With Stu has nailed improvising how to look in a mirror). YAY MATT! YAY SPLITSIDER! YAY COMEDY!
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March 2013
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Upstairs Gallery Chicago: TONIGHT! SICK ADVENTURE... →
Hey readers! What are you doing tonight? Drinking vodka sodas in River North? Having a craft beer in Lakeview? Sipping some whiskey in Wicker Park? OH HOW ABOUT LAUGHING IN ANDERSONVILLE?!??! BYOB MOTHA FUCKAS!!!!!
Sweet Kisses will be playing at the Upstairs Gallery at 8:30 tonight. 5219 N. Clark St. IT’S GONNA BE A SICK ADVENTURE!!!!!! Come see us do some jokes with our friends...
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Deep Thoughts on Women who don't help Women (or......
Mal here.
I write this post with a heavy heart as listen to Taylor Swift’s Speak Now album. It was only a matter of time before I felt the need to weigh in on Taylor Swift’s twatiness, huh? Like don’t get my wrong folks. I listen to Taylor Swift once a day at a minimum. But goddamn, what a self righteous fuck. I actually think at this point I hate Taylor Swift more than...
February 2013
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TONIGHT! Sweet Kisses and Friends in February
HEY READERS. It’s your last chance to see our Sweet Kisses show at the Upstairs Gallery. TONIGHT! 8PM! BYOB! FREE (but we’ll take your donations because improv gets shockingly expensive).
Super amazing openers Squall and Fanny will be there. Ugh gosh it’s going to be so deliciously good. We love it so much. We love you so much. We love each other so much. We have so much love to...
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TONIGHT Sweet Kisses and Friends in February
Aw yeah. Only 2 more chances to see Sweet Kisses perform at The Upstairs Gallery! Tonight, Alto Valley (Bass Mountain) and The Lost Boys will be opening. It’ll be a whole lot of laughs. A whole lot of sexy. A whole lot of sloppy wet sweet sweet sweet kisses. MWAH.
8pm. Free. Donations Accepted. BYOB. 5219 N. Clark St. Be there. Or be an asshole. The choice is yours.
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WE NEED AN OFFICE!
Hey readers! We need your help! We’ve got a fucking awesome idea for a video. It’s probably going to skyrocket us to fame, fortune, and multiple stints in Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. The only problem is that we need an office to film it in.
If you have an office we could use for some filming on an evening or weekend, let us know. Ideally your office has cubicles. Ah cubicles would...
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TONIGHT! Sweet Kisses and Friends in February
Yep. Us again. Doing a Valentine’s Day show. So grab the one you love. Or love the one you’re with. Or if you’re single, maybe tonight is the night you meet that special someone. Or maybe you’ll meet someone who is just special for tonight. We don’t know. We don’t care. This is a judgment free zone. FREE LOVE EVERYONE! SAVE FERRIS!
Ugh. Come to the Upstairs...
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The Impossible Is The Greatest Movie Of All Time...
Hello. Mallory here. I’m using my given name in its full form because that’s what I do when I’m upset.
On Monday night I saw The Impossible. It was one of the greatest movies I’ve ever seen in my entire life. So great that I went into a deep dark Wikipedia black hole afterwards and like now I know everything you could ever know about Maria Belon’s family and the...
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Tonight! Sweet Kisses and Friends in February
HEY! We are in this show! This is our show! Come see this show! Every Thursday in February at 8pm at the Upstairs Gallery in Andersonville! COME SEE OUR SHOW!!!!!
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Thursday- February 7, 14, 21, 28- 8pm, Free (Donations Accepted), BYOB
What better month to get your fill on Sweet Kisses than February?
Join us Thursdays to enjoy a totally romantic or platonic night of improv...
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January 2013
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THE MIDDLE SCHOOL CHALLENGE! (Please like us on...
The day is January 31, 2013. The time is mid afternoon, depending on your timezone. The Facebook like count is 147. That’s good. But it sure ain’t great.
SO HERE’S WHAT WE’RE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT.
For every 25 likes we get, we will release photos of ourselves from middle school. And I can promise you, we were both funny looking in middle school. So tell your friends to...
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An Open Love Letter to Amy Poehler
Mal here.
Amy Poehler will be releasing a book in 2014. I am so excited. Excited enough to share this open love letter to her with all of you. We should probably start thinking about changing the name of this blog to “Mal’s Blonde Lady Crushes” huh?
Dear Amy,
Hey old friend, what’s up? Congrats on the book deal. I’m really looking forward to reading it because...
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Conversations with Women: Date night →
(We had a conversation. Our friends at Conversations With Women graciously posted it. You should all follow Conversations With Women cause it’s fucking awesome.)
conversationswithwomen:
Friend: OH MY GOD me: what happened what happened Friend: i am going on a date tonight me: yay Friend: i just googled him the first result me: and Friend: IS HIS ARREST RECORD me: WHAT WHAT WHAT ...
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Sweet Kisses Show Tonight!
Sweet Kisses will be performing TONIGHT! At the Upstairs Gallery! 5219 N. Clark St! Opening for the tall and talented duo that is Nnamdi Ngwe and Tyler Parker! 10:30pm! BYOB! Donations accepted but otherwise free! Lots of laughs! Lots of kisses! Lots of fun! COME ON!!!! WE WILL BE THERE WITH JOKES AND KISSES!
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JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE IS MAKING NEW MUSIC!
Mal here.
I was in middle school in the late 1990s during the height of the boy band craze. Although I was like pretty into O-Town (if you haven’t danced to “Liquid Dreams” you haven’t lived) *NSYNC was my number 2 favorite. I was like supaaaa into JC Chasez. He was classically handsome. And I couldn’t understand why my friends all liked Justin. He had the...
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Sweet Kisses Show Tonight!
Good Morning! Happy Friday! The sun is shining, the birds are in Florida, and if you live in Chicago, it’s a balmy 16 degrees today! So come warm up at the Crocodile Lounge in Wicker Park tonight with some Sweet Kisses at 9pm. We’ll be there! Doing some jokes! Along with our friends Nicole, Tom, Tyler, and Drew! Ohmigosh how fun is that!
AND we’re extremely pleased to announce...
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ME. PICK ME. (or... there's going to be a biopic...
Mal here.
This is by no means a Hillary Clinton blog there’s just a lot of Hillary Clinton happening right now including a new biopic about a young Hillary Clinton. I just read about it in Politico. It’s called Rodham and it’s a role I’m destined to play because of my youth and talent and also my love of Hillary Clinton and also she and I have similar coloring and did I...
December 2012
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On Dreams Coming True (or... Hillary Clinton may...
Mal here.
Do you guys remember my post from a few weeks ago about Hillary Clinton (and Gilda Radner, and Gloria Steneim, and Amy Poehler, and basically all of my lady idols?) Well my Aunt Susan remembered it. She remembered it so well that she sent an excerpt of that post to a contact of hers who happens to know someone who happens to know Hillary Clinton. (She edited the excerpt for profanity...
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Grief Bacon
Jess here. Last night, Mal and I were hanging with the talented and wise Kaitlin Scully, when…BAM!!! She changed our lives forever. For so long, Mal and I haven’t had the words for our coping mechanisms. Last night, Kaitlin gave us the gift of “Kummerspeck,” a German word that literally translates to “Grief Bacon,” meaning excess weight gain due to emotional...
Bughouse. Tonight. Watch Us Play!
Sweet Kisses (of which DWS makes up 1/3) is playing tonight, December 7 at Bughouse Theatre at 10:00pm.
2054 W. Irving Park Road BYOB Free though donations are encouraged.
See you there, right?
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Mal guests on Slights of the Roundtable! (Or... on...
Mal here.
This week the lovely gentlemen of Slights of the Roundtable allowed me to guest on their podcast! I told some terrible jokes. Don’t worry. Their jokes were great. Er. Decent. Er. Fine. Er. The podcast is only 30 minutes long.
You can listen to it while looking at spreadsheets. Or commuting. Or running. Or cooking. Guys, the cool thing about podcasts is that you can listen to...
November 2012
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CYBER MONDAY DEALS FROM DINNER WITH STU!
Just kidding. Our social media “experts” are telling us to use current events to stay relevant on the tumblr and the twitter and the internet and what not. Which is why I was all “CYBER MONDAY DEALS AHHHH!!!” We actually only have one Cyber Monday deal for you (singular). And it’s FREE.
Our producer/editor/BFF Jimmie has a new podcast called Static in the Attic (not...
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Happy Thanksgiving!
This Thanksgiving we just want to say how thankful we are for YOU! Yes! YOU! You reading this right now! YOU!
We’re thankful that you watch our internet movies. That you liked us Facebook and shared a video you thought was funny or a post that made you laugh. That you give up your spare time to help us make our videos. That you come to us with ideas that we don’t listen to. That you...
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Dave pasquesi and a game of chess (or... I'm the...
Mal here. I’m at starbucks. obscenely early for my class at second city. Killing time. alone. To my left is a table of 8 huge black men playing in a timed chess tournament. To my right is a table of chicago comedy legend Dave pasquesi. I can’t decide if I should inch closer to the chess men to see if they’ll teach me how to play. Or if I should inch closer to Dave pasquesi to see if he’ll tell me...
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I'm Home Alone (or... On Everyone Leaving Me)
Mal here.
Just Mal. I’m the only one here. Literally just me. For awhile. Jess is in Argentina on her honeymoon for basically forever (okay another week). Right now she’s at a winery. Reading spy novels or something. I actually talked to her yesterday. She actually is reading a lot of suspense thrillers. Weird right? Jimmie left for Michigan for like a week. So there won’t be...
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But I Made Flashcards! (or... an overachiever goes...
Mal here.
My drivers license expires on Friday. Basically everyone else whose Illinois license expires in their mid twenties gets to renew their license in the mail. Even my brother who drives his car into an inanimate object at least 4 times a year was able to renew his license in the mail.
But the world is an imperfect place and about a month ago I got a notice from The Secretary of State...
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