rich sommer: the blog

settlers of catan: the book

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:46:45 -0800

Board games based on books or movies, I get.

Movies based on board games… You’re pushing your luck.

A book based on a board game? Especially this board game?

Um.

…maybe not.

i like games.

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:40:45 -0700

So I started a sub-blog called, “rich likes games.”

This is where I will discuss games, as well as other games.

Here: games.richsommer.com

This is the first of what I hope will be a series of segments...

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:18:19 -0700

This is the first of what I hope will be a series of segments featured on G4’s Attack of the Show, where I talk about board games.

I cannot say how excited I am that this exists.

I accepted an invitation to discuss “sports” on The...

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:57:00 -0700

I accepted an invitation to discuss “sports” on The Next Round with Scoop Jackson.

Why did I accept the offer, you ask, considering I know next-to-nothing about sports?

That is a question I may wrestle with until forever.

To their credit, they edited it well, and it almost (almost) sounds like I am saying sentences that make sense in the context of the questions being asked.

A special thank you to my brother-in-law, Joe, who provided me with some opinions that I could attempt to pass off as my own. And thanks also to Scoop and Adam for going easy on me.

I have almost never been this nervous on camera. At one point you can see me chewing — CHEWING — my lip.

Sigh.

Kiiiiind of amazing. erockappel: Holy shit! This “Rob Lowe...

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 08:33:02 -0800

Kiiiiind of amazing.

erockappel:

Holy shit! This “Rob Lowe Goes Nuts” promo for the new season of Parks and Rec is fucking AMAZING!

Coupla things regarding last night: Our show has been lucky...

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:42:53 -0800

Coupla things regarding last night:

Our show has been lucky enough to be nominated for lots of stuff. Each time we are heading into the arena, I am expecting not to win. Hopeful that we will, but realizing that there’s a TON of great TV happening right now, and we have had an amazing and ridiculous run so far.

As for Jon and Lizzie, I think they should win every single award that exists, because I think they are amazing actors. Plus, I happen to love them, and want to see them win. Mainly because I paid them each $20 to say how awesome I am in their speeches, and now I’m out $40.

Just kidding. They paid me back.

All that being said, we had a great time last night. It was so good to see my coworkers after not having seen many of them since September. My Lovely Wife and I have basically been quarantined since Kid #2.

Now to much more important matters: Please do not think for a moment that I am enjoying this “beard” any more than you are. It is for a job, and will vanish almost immediately upon said job’s completion. I promise.

Just saw your two Committee videos. I have not laughed so hard in quite some time. I do hope there are more in the future.

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:17:19 -0800

Good news! We are trying to nail down shoot dates now. I am excited to do more.

Concerning that whole Delta clusterfuck - have you officially complained to them yet? Are you going to? You should!

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 13:27:27 -0800

Nah. I mean it when I say that it wasn’t (all) their fault. I was just a surly dad with two young ‘uns.

I have no memory of this incident, but I love the picture.

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 07:39:00 -0800

I have no memory of this incident, but I love the picture.

I'm calmer now.

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 05:31:40 -0800

I don’t hate Delta anymore. It wasn’t their fault, really, except for the rerouting-us-to-a-flight-we-would-probably-miss part.

I can’t hate them, because I am heading back to the airport right now to fly them again, and that would be a bummer of a way to start my day. I am being very zen about them.

I have instead chosen to focus my rage on one of the other passengers in this SuperShuttle, who brought his cat in the van.

I am allergic to cats.

THIS is a bummer of a way to start the day.

Update: OH MY GOD SOME OTHER LADY JUST GOT ON AND IS TALKING TO THE CAT AND LOVES IT AND ITS NAME IS BLUE AND IT’S GOING TO ORLANDO AND KILL ME PLEASE

holyfuck

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:46:04 -0800

We are now in California. Our bags? Not so much.

Where are they?

No, seriously, I’m asking: WHERE ARE THEY?

Because exactly zero are where I am.

HAHHHHAAHAHAHAHA

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:07:06 -0800

Welp, we don’t have to worry about Delta anymore!

Because they shook us off their boot, onto a US Airways flight!

So now we’re somebody else’s problem!

Do you think we’ll ever get our bags? The ten we checked? Because we were here for six weeks? Me neither!

Laugh! Laugh!

Dear Delta, I usually love you. I do. I use you whenever I can,...

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:27:13 -0800

Dear Delta,

I usually love you. I do. I use you whenever I can, I have your SkyMiles Amex, and I request your flights whenever I am being flown for work.

However, I’m not quite as excited about the reroute boner you pulled on me, My Lovely Wife, our two kids, and our five billion bags.

When you send an email changing our flights, rerouting us through a different city, and shortening our layover, it’s one thing. When you include in that email a note saying, “you may miss your connecting flight,” it’s another.

But THEN, when you delay our “new” flight, thereby guaranteeing that we miss our second flight, and stick us in Portland for four hours, following the almost-two-hour-delay in Minneapolis, well, that’s a bummer.

I realize people have had a shit travel season, and that this is probably the smallest type of inconvenience we could have encountered, but I am sitting here right now, and it’s annoying.

Love, Rich

Major clarification.

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:06:00 -0800

Hoo boy. Sometimes I forget about the Internet.

What I tweeted:

“I have no idea if there will be a season 5 of MM. I am operating under the assumption that there won’t be, until I hear otherwise.”

What I meant:

I am aware that all parties involved are currently negotiating the next season of Mad Men and beyond. Nothing official has been stated yet as far as a pickup, although it is a safe bet — very safe bet — that the show will return in its usual fashion.

That being said, as an actor who used to be unemployed a lot, and as a father of two, I choose to operate under certain pretenses, until I hear otherwise. Meaning: until I get my official pickup, I am squirreling away money and seeing a shrink to help me cope with being in this business. I will return to calm when we get the official word.

In the future, I will try to remain a bit more clear on statements like this. I did not intend to start the shit storm I’ve clearly started, and I did not intend to ruin anyone’s day, fans and coworkers alike.

That is all. Retreating to my hole now. Goodbye.

1)Why is your character on Mad Men so awesome? 2) Was your character in The Devil Wears Prada supposed to be gay or just metro?

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 15:36:42 -0700

1) Because the Mad Men writers are awesome.

2) I don’t think it matters, but no, not supposed to be gay.

Dear My iPhone

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:56:56 -0700

Fuck you for freezing up this morning, and forcing me to do a full restore.

Fuck me for not backing up my phone for 1.5 months, so that I lost 75% of the photos ever taken of my infant son.

Hate, Rich

In the event of a zombie apocalypse... which character from the Mad Men universe do you think would be the last man or woman standing?

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:04:45 -0700

Paul Kinsey. I’ll bet he has some weird survivalist training. He would do something like that.

Audio

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:04:41 -0700

Desert island book?

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:00:54 -0700

Either Replay by Ken Grimwood, or In the Lake of The Woods by Tim O’Brien. Tough call.

funnyordie: Ving Rhames Wins Oscar for Piranha 3D Elisabeth...

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:45:43 -0700

funnyordie:

Ving Rhames Wins Oscar for Piranha 3D

Elisabeth Shue presents Ving Rhames with his long-overdue Oscar, and he proceeds to go totally nuts.