The scene: cnoocy, as part of a cassette inventory of the house, comes into his housemates' room to grab some cassettes to catalog. Cats T and K are in the room already, lounging on the bed.

T: Hey, Cnoocy.
K: Oh my god! A human! runs from room
Cnoocy grabs some tapes and leaves.

Ten minutes later:

Cnoocy comes into his housemates' room to grab some cassettes to catalog. Cats T and K are in the room already, lounging on the bed.

T: Hey, Cnoocy.
K: Oh my god! A human! runs from room
...

Repeat endlessly.

power came on again around 4pm
around 6pm call came in from my boss saying we were closed again tomorrow
back still hates me
and that's really all there is to report just now

Day 2 of libraries being closed due to coastal flooding

Day 1 of my power being out @ home (posting from phone)

Day 1.5 of my lower back hating me (dunno if it's DOMS from yoga or I did something evil to it at bjj noontime yesterday but it feels rather like my legs did after the half marathon save worse cause you can't just avoid walking on it so much)

Supposed to work this weekend we'll see how it goes & whether I or the library turn out to have power by then

Blah
I do love living at the beach

At least I can play online til the phone battery dies

Incidentally webpages look really fucked up on a blackberry

I remember as a kid not thinking too much about it when I truly learned that there was no Santa Claus. I think I kinda already knew.

But when I learned that Shamu wasn't a single killer whale, it was just what they named the whale performing for a given show? That was true disappointment.

jake has a new stem

old stem:


new stem:




acquired Jake with a 110mm stem with a 6 degree angle* ...too big
changed to a 90mm stem with a 40 degree angle (picture 2)
now 90mm stem with an 8 degree angle (picture 1)
...some day maybe I'll end up flipping it and have a -8 degree angle ...or not

tomorrow I'll run out and play and see how it feels


*hard to see from this picture but here's one with the original stem ( pic )

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Start Your Engines!  Tomorrow, I am off to the Big Easy.  The show I am directing is in a festival there and I am not going to miss the chance to help perfect the show and see the town.  

It's an 8 hour drive solo.  Just the set and me and in the car.  My partner in this matter is flying.  

Then? 6 nights.  Every single day I am there, there is show work, but I will NOT do the theater, bus, hotel, bar, sleep, theater, bus... routine.  


In the meantime, I am in Peachtree City about to do a completely different show...

 

The newest show I have produced opens today.  My other show opens in New Orleans next week.  It's high political season.  I have a public Laughing Matters show, and a murder mystery on Monday.

In some ways, I don't much care.  My friend Adam Mewherter killed himself Tuesday.  Though I don't have time for it to occupy much of my conscious mind, thoughts about his death occupy much of the back channels under the surface. 

Suicide has always confounded me.  I just don't get it.  The desire to not live, especially in absence of constant pain or inaccessibility to mental health assistance, is beyond my grasp. 

I want to live.  There are people and things worth dying for, but generally, I want to live. 

I will miss Adam.  He was clever, instinctually witty, and generally an interesting guy.  I cannot understand what drove him to despair especially since he apparently had been cheerful earlier that night. 

Live baby Live.  For the moment, that's my motto. 

You might think that the topic of baby names would only be of interest to you if you are actively in the process of deciding what to name a baby. You would be wrong. As the Baby Name Wizard, Laura Wattenberg uses the statistical study of baby names as a lens to look at a fascinating array of topics, from a three-part series on the racial context of baby-naming urban legends to a discussion of romance author pen names to an analysis of the New England Patriots' influence on the popularity of the name Brady.

If you find statistical analysis at all interesting (and I would give odds you've spent some time reading fivethirtyeight.com), her blog is highly recommended.