Tommy Karr

Category: Life

  • Tennessee Homecoming… and the Thing on the Wall

    I went home to visit family a few weeks ago and to help get the house in order, in the hope that we can sell it sometime in the next year or so.  The trip was good… if not exhausting.  But the house is looking great and just needs a little T.L.C. to get it…

  • Tuba-Ruba (or How I Got Cake)

    Tuba-Ruba may have been one of my favorite games… for about four hours. And then I transformed it into a room-to-room communication device. See, Tuba-Ruba came out in 1987, just as I turned 12 and I was at that age where a) I didn’t particularly want to be tangled up with a girl and b)…

  • There’s a hurricane a’comin’!

    Well NYC… here it comes. Hurricane Irene is heading our way and the city is on high alert.  There is a mandatory evacuation for all residents living in Zone A, sandbags are being lined up along parts of Staten Island, Queens and Wall Street, and stores are being emptied of paper products and emergency supplies.…

  • The Knee Bones Connected to the…

    Today was my first full physical therapy session. For those that don’t know, I somehow destroyed my knee and have been hobbling around for nearly two months. My doctor thought I might have a meniscus tear but after an MRI he ruled that out. So, he prescribed physical therapy for two months hoping that it…

  • Answers to the Young Patrons Theatre Trivia Quiz

    As promised, albeit late, here is a link to the answers from TDF’s Young Patrons Trivia Night at Hurley’s. From TDF Stages: Answers to Our Theatre Trivia Quiz. To read more about the event visit this previous blog post. And if you are interested in learning more about the Young Patrons Committee at TDF click here…

  • The Captains (Part 2)

    My friend Mike emailed me about a week ago with information about a free screening for William Shatner’s documentary The Captains.  He is upstate stage managing Cooking With The Calamari Sisters: Mangia Italiana with our friends Steve and Jay so he couldn’t go.  But when I mentioned it to Quincy she froke out.  “WHAT TIME ARE…

  • The Captains (Part 1)

    This is just a sneak peek at the hilarity that Quincy and I had at last nights screening of William Shatner’s “The Captains” on the deck of the Intrepid. Full details on the ridiculousness to come shortly.

  • …and the Case of the Missing Rockets

    In the eighth grade, after busily trading Garbage Pail Kids card and drawing Archie-inspired cartoons of my best friends, I joined our 4-H club and excitedly planned out how I would raise my pig and what tricks I would teach it. However, being a small school in Goose Creek, primarily occupied by Navy brats, and…

  • TDF’s Young Patrons Theatre Trivia Night at Hurley’s

    Marie Osmond, Elaine Paige, Sandy Duncan, and Betty White have all played the female lead in what classic 1950’s musical? This was just a taste of the trivia competition that so engrossed nearly 40 players last night at Hurley’s for the inaugural event of the Young Patrons Committee (YPC) at Theatre Development Fund. The recently formed…

  • How my old Nintendo games will support “It Gets Better”

    I recently found a collection of well-preserved Nintendo games when cleaning out some old boxes.  Truthfully I have been watching Hoarders and felt compelled to avoid any chance of future trashiness by going through my closet and getting a late start on some Spring cleaning. So… I found twenty-four games that I haven’t played in…