New toy
I just got a new smartphone, a Treo 650, used from my buddy Alan. It came in the mail today, and since it does indeed work on the SunCom network, I'll be adding a data plan and now I have a coolio geek...
View ArticleMarriage is fun
No, really. I just spent two hours arguing with my sife about what we're going to fix in our house next, and how we're going to afford it. It's an odd thing, that money. We always have enough to do the...
View ArticlePeople at work are funny
So I walk into a co-worker's office a few minutes ago and comment on her new yo-yo."I told you I've been spending money.""Yeah, me too, and I'm wearing it on my belt.""Your new phone?""Yeah.""Does the...
View ArticleNeat and new
Did you know you can download video from Amazon? Me neither, but using this thing they call Unbox Video downloads, you can download TV shows, movies and other coolness to watch on your computer. And...
View ArticleComing home...
I lost my shit when I walked in the door.It was quiet. I was alone. There wasn't anyone hopping down off the bed upstairs to see if it was time to be fed, or to see if he could escape into the great...
View ArticleTransference
Isn't that what they call it when you move anger or love or whatver feeling you have from the real target to a surrogate? Well, that's sort of the theory here. I don't think transference is really the...
View ArticleGo ahead...
Order the new Harry Potter book. You might as well, everybody else is, and you don't want to be stuck in line at Borders at midnight AGAIN.Tags: Harry Potter
View ArticleAuditions...
I was surprised when I pulled into the parking lot and saw so many cars. Surprised, and a little nervous. I haven't done this in a few years, and hadn't really done it in closer to eight or nine. I...
View ArticleDance, monkey, dance!
Kinda. This week the NC Dance Festival has its annual stop in Charlotte at the UNCC theatre, and for the second year I'm their lighting guy. It's a little bit of a stretch to call myself the lighting...
View ArticleThe word is VAGINA, you fucking pussy.
This link goes to a news story in Jacksonville. I heard about it from my favorite writer of all time.I have produced the play The Vagina Monologues on a couple of occassions, directing it both times...
View ArticleScary shit
One of a technician's greatest fears is that something goes wrong and somebody gets hurt. Last night, during the dance concert, it did, and someone did. I wasn't involved and there was nothing I could...
View ArticleDance fest - fini
So I'm done with the NC Dance fest, and damn, are my legs tired. That joke never works. so over the course of six days I saw and designed or semi-designed better than 20 dances, many of which I saw for...
View ArticleOpera
Tonight I begin designing an opera for a department at UNCC that has never produced a fully-staged performance before. I don't read music. And I've never designed an opera before.At least it's in...
View ArticleIt's been a long time...
Since I spent 14 hours in one day working on a show. Shit, most of the gigs I get nowadays, 14 hours is about all I spend on the entire thing! I exaggerate a little, but yesterday was a long fucking...
View ArticleOpera fini
And after another two-a-day rehearsal that saw me at least leave the theatre prior to the clock turning on a new day, I am done with the opera. It looks really pretty. I'm quite pleased with how it...
View ArticleIt all starts again
I was three years ago the last time I walked across the stage as an actor. It was more like 16 the last time I carried the leading male role in a show. It's never happened in a Shakespeare play. To say...
View ArticleFirst read-thru
So the good news is that I think I can probably still do this acting thing. The better news is that it's a good cast. And even better, it feels fun again. It's been a long time since theatre was fun,...
View ArticleThe Crucible
Did I mention that I'm a bit of a masochist? In addition to taking the leading role in this little Shakespeare thing going on in April, I'm also still doing the whole freelance design thing. So last...
View ArticleDay 2 - read it again
In the second read-thru, people mostly know how to pronounce things, although we have a couple of folks who are shaky on some of the names, and my Latin is nonexistent. A few character things can start...
View ArticleGhosts in the hall...
Driving back to Rock Hill I can see them. One southern, one Oxford proper. Both gone, but not forgotten. One standing, coffee mug in hand, foot propped up on a chair with his cowboy boots on and...
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