{"id":32,"date":"2008-12-15T18:00:49","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T23:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2008-12-15T18:00:49","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T23:00:49","slug":"one-more-week-til-hannukah-shoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"One more week &#8217;til Hannukah, shoppers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Okay, apologies all.<span> <\/span>Not that I imagine you all sitting at your desks with bated breath, but still, I intend to write more frequently than I have been.<span> <\/span>(But hey, who noticed the pictures of me which now appear on the blog?<span> <\/span>Pretty sexy, no?)<span> <\/span>Anyhoo, the reason there\u2019s been so much time between posts is I was doing some real writing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I was mad-dash slapping together a play to submit to the Toronto Fringe\u2019s New Play Contest.<span> <\/span>I imagine it\u2019s quite the long shot, and I\u2019m kicking myself for a typo I noticed sadly an hour or so too late, but I feel good for having done it, and fingers crossed.<span> <\/span>The cast here was kind enough to indulge me in a reading, and while it\u2019s not where it has to be (definitely to mount, probably for the contest), it seems to have some potential.<span> <\/span>I\u2019ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Things of note that have happened since last I posted:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our producer, Nate DuFort, left us:<span> <\/span>It was sad.<span> <\/span>But, good producer that he is, he left us<span> <\/span>confident in where we were and what we were doing, so Godspeed to him, hope terra firma is treating him well.<\/li>\n<li>I experienced the very surreal goodbye song that the crew sings to the crowd at the end of the last Stardust theatre show:<span> <\/span>Just because a group of people happens to be from many different nations doesn\u2019t mean singing \u201cWe are The World\u201d won\u2019t be horribly ironic.<span> <\/span>(That\u2019s just one verse, mind you.<span> <\/span>There are more.<span> <\/span>I fully intend to commit them to memory, and share them with you in print, and upon my return, in constant spontaneous outbursts.)<\/li>\n<li>I saw Cirque Bijou:<span> <\/span>That\u2019s the Cirque-de-Soleilesque show onboard.<span> <\/span>The spoken word parts are deliciously campy.<span> <\/span>(We think there\u2019s an improv game in the pattern we\u2019ve discovered.<span> <\/span>It\u2019s essentially a mad-lib that follows the pattern: mythical creature, precious stone, phrase that ends rhyming with \u201coo\u201d \/ action sentence, \u201cat Cirque Bijou.\u201d, e.g. \u201cThe dwarf with the ruby, his words ring true. \/ He pays the fee at Cirque Bijou.\u201d)<span> <\/span>And the impressive parts are, well, impressive.<span> <\/span>It will bear repeat watching.<span> <\/span>(Especially as I make friends with some of the JARs, the dance company.<span> <\/span>It\u2019s gotten to the point where a few of them even come over to engage me!<span> <\/span>For someone who hasn\u2019t made friends in a decade with anyone who I haven\u2019t performed with or who isn\u2019t dating a friend, this is an exciting development!)<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ve done a bunch of shows:<span> <\/span>They\u2019re going fine, thanks for asking.<span> <\/span>No train wrecks, and our last show was our best show, so that\u2019s something.<span> <\/span>(I hate trying to describe improv, because it\u2019s never the same, but Ashley and I did a Sounds Like A Song, where I was the carpenter and she was the carpenter\u2019s long-suffering girlfriend.<span> <\/span>She sang a song about her biological clock, and then I sang a song about how I only wanted to have a child made of wood.<span> <\/span>Both songs had innuendo.<span> <\/span>It worked.)<span> <\/span>And the crowds certainly seem to be enjoying themselves, and we\u2019re discovering things, so good on us.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ve been to Miami twice:<span> <\/span>The first time, I discovered the Miami Library, which was having a big book sale.<span> <\/span>I bought eight books for two dollars.<span> <\/span>I can\u2019t help myself.<span> <\/span>(I also checked to see if they had Brave New Play Rites to lend, which is another thing I can\u2019t help but do.<span> <\/span>For the record, they didn\u2019t, but the New York Public Library does have it, so there.)<span> <\/span>Then I called home.<span> <\/span>I\u2019ll spare you the details, but suffice it to say, the politics junkie in me was very bitter at missing all the excitement.<span> <\/span>That Stephen Harper still has a job and Sam Mitchell doesn\u2019t makes me sad.<span> <\/span><\/li>\n<li>I finished <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">American Gods<\/span>.<span> <\/span>Fairly impressive tying together of loose threads at the end, but still, not recommended.<span> <\/span>That said, I think at some point, I\u2019ll want to check out some more Neil Gaiman.<span> <\/span>I have started reading <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk<\/span>, by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain.<span> <\/span>(One of my eight new books.)<span> <\/span>The idea is to switch back and forth between fiction and nonfiction for awhile.<span> <\/span>Plus, given the demands of my current vocation, I\u2019m feeling that my non-corporate side will need some private nurturing.<span> <\/span>So far, I\u2019m liking it, though I can see myself around page 200 yelling \u201cAlright, we get it already!<span> <\/span>You used to get stoned and act all crazy!<span> <\/span>Can\u2019t you talk about anything else?!?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>I moved: I\u2019m in a big crew solo room now.<span> <\/span>It\u2019s nice, but moving\u2019s a pain, and I imagine it\u2019ll be that much more of a pain moving back to the small room.<span> <\/span>Ah well, nature of the beast.<span> <\/span>On the plus side, I don\u2019t have to wear pants nearly as often!<\/li>\n<li>I snorkeled in Tortola:<span> <\/span>It was pretty awesome.<span> <\/span>Between my not having contact lenses as a child and never really having had much opportunity to be in natural water that isn\u2019t toxic, I\u2019ve never really gotten the whole snorkeling thing.<span> <\/span>But I will definitely be doing it again.<span> <\/span>Oh, yes.<span> <\/span>The fish haven\u2019t seen the last of me, and I certainly haven\u2019t seen the last of them.<\/li>\n<li>I wrote this blog entry:<span> <\/span>Oooh!<span> <\/span>Meta!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Oh, and I think I might be on a new Bad Dog Harold poster, so that\u2019s a warm fuzzy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Cheers, don\u2019t be strangers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, apologies all. Not that I imagine you all sitting at your desks with bated breath, but still, I intend to write more frequently than I have been. (But hey, who noticed the pictures of me which now appear on the blog? Pretty sexy, no?) Anyhoo, the reason there\u2019s been so much time between posts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}