I know several of you are concerned about the Winter Storm Warning expected for tonight and tomorrow.
As of right now, the show will go on. I am playing it by ear, but I expect to start the writing process tonight at 8 as scheduled. The arrival times for actors and crew tomorrow morning may have to be made a bit flexible, if the roads are in bad shape. But everyone is still expected at the scheduled times, and I recommend starting WAY early if the storm is bad.
I am leaving work at 3:00 to go back home and get supplies, and then I expect to be at the theatre to start setting up around 6 at the latest.
Once again, this could get interesting.
Especially since I just got recruited to be the Mercury Players "Hall Monitor" from 1am to 6am.
This means:
1) I'll have a set of keys. 2) They'll show me where everything is. 3) I'll have some numbers to call if if I have problems/questions. 4) Everyone else in the building will know to go to me with problems & questions.
It also means that, since I woke up at 6:30am this morning, it's a safe bet that I'll be up for twenty-four hours.
Just got this email from Doug Reed (titled "Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night..."):
I just wanted to say that you are all slimy, beautiful bastards, and I can't wait to have hot sex with each and every one of you at some point in the next 24 hours.
God, I love Blitzkreig.
Love,
Doug
Which was followed immediately by this reply from Buck Hakes:
Just so you know, they've issued a winter storm warning for midnight tonight through noon Saturday, so we all may get to know each other a LOT better than we really wanted to over the next 48 hours.
Cannibalism may also be involved--which, depending on your point of view, could make the experience that much kinkier.
Dave Pausch then added:
Should one of us bring a shotgun--probably Rob--in case the wolves try to get into the theatre?
Buck:
Wouldn't work, unfortunately--all of Rob's guns are fake. (Except one, and I can't remember which one that is.)
I'm playing it by ear. Expect more info as the day goes on.
Which one is fake is on a need to know basis.
Doug:
Wow. What are the criteria to decide who is eaten and who lives? What does the Boy Scout manual have to say on the topic?
So today might get more interesting than we planned.
Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I'm gonna write for Blitzkrieg!! Nothing to do, Nowhere to go, I'm gonna write for Blitzkrieg! Just get me tons' a Red Bull, Then make it burn and bleed, Hurry hurry hurry I've gotta buy some speed! Then get me Matt Cibula, And then go get Doug Reed, Oh no oh no oh NO...
Ba-ba-BA-baaaaa Ba-BA-ba-b-baaaaa... I'm Gonna Write For Blitzkrieg!
In other theater news, here's some stuff you should know about the new play at Broom Street Theater:
Judge is inspired by a murder that took place in La Fayette County, Wisconsin in 1985, in which the sitting judge murdered a lawyer in the county seat of Darlington. Being originally from the county the story always appealed to the writer, Harty. His first note about the possibility of creating a play from the story was written, he said, in September of 1989. Over a decade later the finished play will be presented to the public. He is careful to note, however, that the case was only the inspiration. "I had no intention of creating the actual story," he said.
"While certain incidents from the actual case are recreated the play is in no way an attempt to portray the people from that case. The few facts taken from the real story are merely the skeleton upon which to hang the flesh of a fictional drama. The characters in the play are not intended to represent those people. The story was merely a convenient way to explore the concept of judgement in our society, to look at who is given or has the right to judge whom, and why."
Judge will feature a large cast for the Broom Street stage. Included will be seven Broom Street veterans and six Broom Street newcomers. The veterans include some very familiar names. Among these are Scott Feiner, Mark Gapen, John Harmon, John Sable, Robert Moccero, Karl Reinhardt, and Brian Wild as Judge Folks. Newcomers include Christine Callsen, Tim Condon, Josh Hobson, Dana Pellebon, J. Schwartz, and Josh Thomas.
This is Harty's twelfth original play for the Broom Street stage. His first was the drama, Dream Quest, in 1993. Most recently he wrote and directed Count Fagula, a contemporary retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Other works include Pictures at an Exhibition, The Last Thief, and The Color of Dust.
Technical assistance on the production includes lighting design by Luke Delwiche, sound design by Brian Wild, and set design, art, and construction by Matt Grzybowski and Ryan Larson.
For more information about Judge contact writer/director Callen Harty at (608) 222-9086, Broom Street Theater at (608) 244-8338, or go to Broom Street Theater's website at www.broomstreet.org.
So now you know.
Of course, both this and Blitzkrieg open this weekend...but together...they fight crime.
(In case you're wondering what an "aside-link" is, you just saw two of them.)
I've been having trouble FTPing to my webspace (which I'm keeping the Spudnuts mp3s on)--my webspace is with Charter Communications, who I have my cable modem service with--so basically, I'm paying for it.
I emailed tech support about it, and I got this back:
You are allowed 10 MB of webspace on our servers, it looks as if you are exceeding this.
Thanks
Ten?
Ten?!?
This didn't sound right to me (and I spent most of last night looking for an indication as to how much space I had--and couldn't find it).
To put this in perspective, Geocities gives away fifteen meg for free.
So, I send another email to the same Charter Rep, asking if there's any way to get any more space, and I get this back:
No, unfortunately we only offer the 10Mb of webspace.
Thank you
Uh...huh?
You'd think they'd want to sell me some more web space, but no, it's "you'l take your ten meg and like it."
The fuck?
As I've said, Charter is like the University Of Wisconsin-Madison, in that every dealing with either of them guarantees a splitting headache.
Basically, the only reason anyone deals with Charter in the first place, is that we don't have a fraggin' choice.
Anyway, now I'm gonna shop around for webspace.
Click here for a brilliant essay on the film Say Anything.
I was the only one working on a PC, and I was writing in Final Draft (which I swear by), and the only printer available was an ancient dot matrix printer that was bought at a second hand store--
("Dot Matrix Printer...the kind you'd buy, at a second hand store...")
--anyway, it took nearly an hour to print one page.
I am not making this up.
So I had to remain half asleep, one eye open, to listen for the printer to stop printing, and when it did...
I'd get up, pull the page out, set another page in, line it up, press "online," hit "enter," and go back to half-sleep. I kept this up for at least five hours.
Four more days 'till B3d, B3d, B3d, Four more days 'till B3d, Silver Shamrock!
I've added a new store section to the site, where you can buy t-shirts and stuff relating to the shows I've done. I don't really expect to make a lot of money with this, but I can't really lose money either, so I figured what the hell. It's not really a formal addition yet, as it's nowhere near done, but check it out anyway. Some fancy cool RobShwag.
Also new is the renamed Visuals section (formerly Personal Stuff). I've added some pics from Computers In Love--more to come later, hopefully.
Oh, yeah, for those of you fans of WWDN in general and Spudnuts in particular, there's a new mp3 in the Spudnuts area called "Spudnuts' Vacation."
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