The ongoing odessey of Dave Pearce - working for Second City on the high seas...

Gem Day 115 - Goodbye and Thanks 

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The ship is being slammed about by high winds and waves above 12 feet as I attempt to type this.
Not to be melodramatic, our lives are not in danger, but it is surprisingly hard to type when the ship pitches and yaws around like a drunken, well, sailor.
A final blowout at the Bliss Lounge last […]

Times Square Toys ‘R Us 

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If I were a kid, it’d be paradise…
If I were a parent, it’d be hell…
I’m neither, so it’s just….cool…..

NYC, Times Square, Toys ‘R Us, Holidays, Dave Pearce, Jennine Profeta

The Best Place in New York City (Holiday Edition) 

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We found this place in Times Square during the Christmas Holidays…absolutely the greatest place ever!

If you’re in New York during the 2008/9 Christmas Holidays…maybe you’ll see it there!
NYC, Dave Pearce, Charmin, Jennine Profeta, Times Square

Gem Day 93 -Resolutions 

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Merry Christmas! Season’s Greetings!

And, of course, Happy New Year!
A time for celebration (we’re still alive! The ship didn’t sink! I’m gainfully employed!!)

…for contemplation (what am I doing with my life? How can I top this past year? Where do I want to live? Is that mole something […]

Gem Day 82 - New York Christmas 

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We’re pushing south, with Jersey on our starboard side, max. loaded with passengers, including 600 children.
The Norwegian Gem is off on its first of many regular, New-York-based runs, and for now, Jennine and I are hiding in our cabin, enjoying a run of great flicks on Turner Classic Movies: Night of the Hunter, The Hustler, […]

Pompeii 

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This is one of the OLDEST videos I shot, dating from our first swing through Europe. If you check out “The Vesuvius Journey” from June 2007, you can see the first part of the same day…
Ruins ruins ruins, people!

Dave Pearce, Cruising, Pompeii, NCL, Second City, Vesuvius

Gem Day 79 - Winter 

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Remember when I said that Jennine and I were really excited to see snow? To feel a brisk winter wind? To experience a season other than summer for the first time in 18 months?
Well we got it.
In spades.
As I’m sure all of you from the mid-West through the Eastern Seabord did too. […]

Ship Shape 

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Gregg Hess and I shot some footage for a longer concept in February 2007. We just ran out of time to complete the idea, but this bit stands alone…
Enjoy!

Dave Pearce, Greg Hess, gym, comedy, Second City

Gibraltar 

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We hit the British territory and explore the REAL “Rock”…
Views and monkeys…check it out!

Gibraltar, Dave Pearce, Second City, Jeff Bouthiette, Jennine Profeta, NCL

Istanbul Part Two: Topkapi 

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A quick tour of Topkapi Palace, former home to the Ottoman Sultans.
Featuring yours truly, Jennine Profeta, David Keaton, Bettina and Denise from the Jean Anne Ryan Company, the juggler Edge, and his uncle Vedot.

Second City, Edge, Jennine Profeta, David Keaton, Jean Anne Ryan, Edge, Topkapi, Istanbul, Dave Pearce