On Friday night Erin and I when to see a live BriTANicK show at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.

The theater, which is this small, dark, underground, crappy sort of place, is actually really awesome and really popular. It was founded by Amy Poehler among with some other legit people who are part of the Upright Citizens Brigade comedy troupe.

The show was great too. Brian & Nick, the two guys of BriTANicK, are both NYU alums. They did some stand up, some improv, and previewed their upcoming new YouTube video (hilarious).

Anyway, they have a show every month, so Erin and I definitely want to go see another one.

WATCH BRITANICK VIDS:
http://www.youtube.com/BriTANicKdotcom
They’re all hilarious, forealz. 

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It’s been like blizarding today. If someone could enlighten me as to wtf is going on that would be awesome.

The past few weeks we’ve had some really nice fall temps. It’s been in the 60’s, a few rainy days but mostly pretty nice. It’s been awesome! Then, all of the sudden it’s 35 and snowing. How is that even possible?? Usually it doesn’t start getting this cold until like December or even January.

Travis is here from Florida this weekend. And the second he stepped off the plane this morning, it started snowing. So obviously I blame him.

At the same time however, the Floridian in me is still pretty excited… until I try to go out in it.

I’ve seen some cool celebs around NYC over the past week:

This is Guy Fieri and Mario Batali (in the convertible) right outside of my apartment. I could literally see this from my window. No idea why they were shooting on my residential street in the Village, but I’ve been told it was for Diners Drive-Ins and Dives. I was on my way to class when I noticed this so I wish I could have stuck around to watch for a while.

Then, as I was leaving NBC on Tuesday I saw Simon Cowell out front. I was amazed at what a nice guy he is! Like okay, he walked out of the main door at NBC. He didn’t have to do that. There are plenty of other more discrete exits that he could have used and chose not to. Then, he didn’t go running for his car. He stopped and chatted with all the people on the street who immediately recognized him. Made some jokes with people, took some pictures, signed some autographs. Totally not the Simon we all know from American Idol.

I mean, I didn’t talk to him, but I could have if I wanted to. That picture isn’t zoomed in.

Footage I took from the 9/11 Memorial, the Tribute In Light, and the memorial at Battery Park. 

So I came here to Vermont because my sister is starting college at UVM next week. The fam has been here since last Tuesday, but my plan was to fly up Thursday from NYC, be there when Kristi moved into her dorm yesterday, and then fly back on today, while my parents were supposed to fly back to SoFla on Sunday.

Hah. Then Hurricane Irene happened.

The storm that was supposed to give some South Florida kids a few days off of school has turned north, gotten stronger, and is now ready to distroy the east coast. My flight today was cancelled, and all flights on Sunday and Monday have also been cancelled.

At first, my parents and I were going to try to get on the last flight out of here and ride the storm out at my apartment in New York, but is it really worth trying to get on a flight that may or may not get cancelled just to fly to a city that may or may not be destroyed by a big storm?

So we’re staying here in Burlington, Vermont until Tuesday, which is also scheduled to get hit with Irene, but will probably just get some heavy rain and wind. I didn’t bring enough clothes (or even my laptop) but it’s probably the safer choice. I mean, the pic above is the view from our hotel, so there are worse places to be stuck.

Here’s to hoping my first floor apartment still exists when I get back.

Actually I didn’t feel it at all.

I was walking down 14th Street at the time and nobody on the street even noticed anything. We were finding out via text, not via earth vibrations.

They were saying on TV that, in NYC anyway, people on the ground weren’t really feeling it, while people in buildings, especially high rises, were seeing some small shaking. So all the local channels went into all out news mode, and were trying so hard to turn this into something significant. But really it was nothing. This girl sums it up nicely:

http://yfrog.com/np90lz

What we really have to worry about now is a hurricane headed directly for NYC. Sweeeeet.

That picture I posted earlier was featured on CBS2 News here in New York tonight!

PS. It’s Dee-Uh-Gah-Tee, but nice try Lonnie.

Lightning over New York City.

I took this during tonight’s lighting storm from my friend’s place downtown. It was so cloudy that you can’t even see the skyscrapers that would normally be in the picture. It took a few tries but I ended up with a pretty cool shot (courtesy of my new camera!). The colors were adjusted a little bit in Photoshop.

So! Couple things.

1. As I briefly mentioned with a link to my Facebook in that last post, I found out last week that I got the internship with Saturday Night Live! I’ll be working in the Post Production department starting early next month. As with the other internships, I won’t be allowed to talk about the details on my blog, but I really appreciate all of the people who support me and are interested in what I’m doing. I’m really excited to get started this semester.

2. In sadder news, the summer is coming to a close and I’ll be heading back to NYC on Wednesday. I’ll probably be doing a summer wrap up post kind of thing soon.

3. And finally, I am turning 21 on Monday! Whattttttt.

(Picture courtesy NBC Universal)

This post is a week late… but last Wednesday was my last day interning at Late Night with Jimmy Fallon!

It’s been quite a few months, I can tell you that. And overall it was a really great experience that I’m glad I got to be a part of.

Definitely going to miss some of the other interns over there. The Late Night Spring 2011 interns were a great group. Many of them have now graduated and are heading off into the real world, which is so crazy. (Good luck to everyone! lolliketheylleverreadthis) And even the Summer interns who came in for our merger week last week were all really cool. It’s too bad I won’t get to know them.

As for me, I’ve still got another year of college left, so I’m pursuing some other potential internships within the NBC Family. We’ll see where it goes :)