Break a Leg

I was born in San Francisco. I’m a San Francisco Writer. It’s a long lineage of awesome people that I’m not even going to try to name. Anyways, I’m a San Francisco Writer, but I’m not in the San Francisco Writer Club yet. Alfred Hitchcock would eat me alive (funny story about Hitchcock – the security guard at my old job used to PA for the Big Studios, and whenever Hitchcock was on set, his job was to open the elephant doors so that Alfred could get inside a stage. I’m not kidding. Elephant doors to enter and exit. Weird. He made The Birds). So when I heard that Yuri and Vlad were doing Break a Leg in San Francisco, thus began my quest to go out to lunch or some other nonsense with them. Also, I for some reason got a little upset when I saw that, when David says “That’s San Francisco” in episode uno, it was San Jose. There’s a certain…. San Francisco—ness…. to San Fran that is native to San Fran and cannot be replicated. I’m rambling, maybe, sorry.

I’m writing this on the eve of Comic-Con, where I tried to pull for a Guild/BaL screening and meet up. Needless to say, it didn’t happen. Next year maybe. I also frequent APE and WonderCon – both in San Fran – my friends improv group from New York, Olde English, does the Comedy Festival every year,and my dad and some graduated and now more recently graduated friends live there. So I go to the city-by-the-city-of-fog a lot. That would be Daily City, the fog city. But something always happens when I city-hop.

I never meet the guys.

I’ve left countless messages on Yuri, Vlad, and even Drew’s FaceBook’s telling them of my arrival (okay, so one message on Drew Lanning’s, but let’s try to make this sound epic). I talk to Yuri and Dashiell all the time about maybe meeting up with them.  I am at the end of my rope. At some point, Yuri is going to say “cut it out, stop following us, stalker; oh, by the way, we’re no longer going to be involved in that Super Smash Brothers Brawl tournament of yours” (which would give The Guild an instant win if they say ‘sure’ at Con).

As I look to the new episodes, as we trudge towards the Babylon that is the season (series?) finale, the hope of meeting the cast and crew of this astronomical series grows dim. I at least got to know them as people, and will forever hold a place in my heart for the champions of the internet webshows (which also belongs to The Guild, God Inc., and yes, even Ask a Ninja – even though what Kent did was overboard).

So thanks, Yuri. Thanks, Vlad. You guys have brightened my life with your joy of storytelling.

David Penn is the chosen one.

~ Bryy Miller

P.S. - If I could ask one more favor of the BaL fanbase, I was wondering if we could do a little sticking-together type deal for a sec. My friend, Josh Alves, has a comic up in DC’s online webcomic competition, Zuda. It’s called Arachnid Kid, about a superhero in the old West that talks in symbols.  As of now he’s currently in sixth place, and his comic is really good, and deserves to win a DC contract. I only ask that you go to http://zudacomics.com/node/139 and vote for him as well as favorite the comic (I’m not sure if you need to sign up first). It would really help out another creative dude in the world. Let us show the world what BaLer’s can do!)

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EDITOR'S NOTE: If you guys ever want to contact any of us Break a Leg people, you can always IM Yuri: BreakaLegSitcom, Vlad: Ante31337, Justin: Jus10m82 or Dashiell: SomeonemanR