About the Project

To best understand the Interregnum, one first has to travel all the way back to 1991, when Home Alone was the best movie ever, and I thought the birthmark on Mikhail Gorbachev's head looked like a map of Italy, which confused me as to which country he was in charge of.

It was in this year, technically, that Allan Johnson and Sarah Zucker first met in the living room of their boisterous piano teacher, who had enormous pendulous breasts which we suspected of helping her play gracenotes and an eternal coughdrop that she would click against her teeth in rhythm. Though the two precocious children rarely to never interacted, the serendipitous truth is that their half hour lessons were situated back-to-back for years. In an effort to win over the most of our teacher's affection, we entered into an epic crafting battle which still continues to this day. After Allan's "Melted snowman in a jar" clearly beat out Sarah's fantastic plastic dangly fashion earrings for most-prized student-hewn gift, a rivalry was sparked which would one day develop into a legendary friendship.

After years of running into one another in various odd places (After all, Canton, OH is only so big, and there are only so many artsy things to enroll Bougie children in), Sarah and Allan made their friendship official one day in 2002, by sharing a cheese pizza after a particularly stressful Acting class. The rest, as they say, is History.

But now the two friends find themselves divided by the greatest physical separation they've ever experienced (We lived 5 minutes from each other our whole lives, though this was not discovered until our late teens). Living on two separate continents, Sarah and Allan have found their communications falling prey to the usual burdens of trans-Atlantic communication. Differences in Time Zone, pricey long-distance, and that pesky human inclination towards "Out of site, out of mind," have plagued the two, and they find themselves suffering, in the most poetic French ennui sense of the word, without one another. The solution?

THE INTERREGNUM.

Thanks to recent advances in technology, and our card-carrying membership in the Church of high-falutin gadgetry, Sarah and Allan have pledged to communicate with each other solely through daily video blogs, which they will post on this site.

"Our rapport is such that people often find us amusing when they overhear us talking. So this site is a way to sort of take that real-life effect, and enact it on the internet," Sarah says.

Yes, besides their ultimate goal of amusing each other, Sarah and Allan have decided to make their friendship global.

Why call it the Interregnum, you ask?

"The term itself- The Interregnum- means a time period between monarchs, the most well-known probably being Oliver Cromwell's reign in Britain," says Allan. "The name is intended to be a bit tongue-in-cheek."

The two have assumed this portmanteau for their project to highlight the liminal period that it is documenting. Now is a time after the original "reign" of their friendship, and who can say when in the future they will be officially reunited? All that can be certain for now is that the opportunity is ripe for some serious, serious, telecommunication.