we rehearse and rehearse...

Rehearsals continue. Brain currently full, needs time to absorb.
The new team is great.
Joe, Gemma, and Lynn from the Golden are rehearsing in the studios as well for their new contract.

Need coffee.

In which your blogger finally endorses a candidate and say inflammatory things

It's time.

Yes, I am aware how many legitimate news outlets and also FOX News have speculated as to when I would FINALLY come forward and endorse a candidate for the upcoming presidential "election."

Well, in most presidential contests since my voting life began, it's been a choice of the lesser of two evils without a lot of difference. Of course, when Bush ran for a second term, that was different - many, many people were idiots and did not vote because - I actually heard this - "it's not like anyone is going to vote for Bush again, so I think we're safe..."

Um... yeah. You need to VOTE, dumbasses.

This time it seems even more clear. Everyday people are, for the first time in my life, getting excited about a candidate. OBAMA!

Anyway, even my dyed in the wool usually Republican parentals and I see eye to eye this time. It seems like another no brainer, but let's not anyone be idiots this time and see it as a gimme. honestly, I've yet to hear any convincing arguments for his opponent. The primary reason people seem to have for voting for him is that they are Republican. That is not a reason. His opponent's campaign, to me, it so far not about why you ought to vote for McCain but what terrible fears you should have about an America under Obama. I would not, to put in perspective, eat at McDonald's because they'd run ads telling me that my children's children would suffer if I ate at Wendy's.

There are more differences between Obama and McCain than between McDonald's and Wendy's, by the way. That's a new idea as well, having the candidates be different enought to matter.

I used to like McCain, but he has so thoroughly changed his public persona in hopes of securing the far right that he's lost touch with the great masses I think. That said, even if he were the McCain I once said I might one day vote for, there's little hope I'd vote for him when faced with someone like Obama.

If you're middle of the road or respond only to the reactionary media, I encourage you to go out and find some of the full Obama speeches - his speech on race in America from March or his speech on classism from sometime shortly after - and listen to the man. Watch him as he speaks. Don't listen to the soundbites. Give both men your due consideration - not the media's coverage of them, but the truth of what's out there. Not what sensationalism has uncovered about McCain's alien baby or Obama's hillbilly brother, but the real stuff that matters.

Give it thought, and THEN vote for Obama.

heh.

Anyway, I am back in LA... Missing all the great people back in Kansas and elsewhere, but readying to begin another (shorter) adventure.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar, revisited

Part one had an actual entry attached to it.

Here in part two, I find myself having just happened across that entry again after checking my tracker to see who read what. Somehow reading it now, almost a year later, I find the title ironic. Given all the happenings between then and now, I could stand to remember that observation in a way entirely more substantial than I meant it then.

I was deeply amused when I discovered how many friends had "fan pages" up on facebook, so following their lead, you can now find me there as well. I'll do something more with the page there soon, but for now click on through and there it is... join me, and together we can rule the galaxy.

This has all happened before, and will happen again...

I haven't had a lot to say lately. The vacation has been good, and has slipped through my fingers like so much poorly made Jell-O. It won't be too terribly long before I head back to LA to being rehearsals anew, this time getting ready for the big Adrian Zmed extravaganza, amongst other things. "Zmed" is apparently not in my blogging software's list of recognized words.

Since last we left our hero, there has been... a trip to Vegas! The possibility of a couple of new projects on the horizon! Reconnection with old friends, and meeting some great new people.

I've been spending a lot of time with my friend Nick, lately, who is in town living with his fiancee Tara in a ...famous sitcom star's home. I am doing them all a favor by not mentioning names specifically. Not being one to drink to excess too often, still wound up with the Best Drunk Story Ever involving waking up and not being able to find my pants in said famous person's home. Nothing untoward happened - it's just exactly what I said, and I wish I could be more specific, but I don't want to post it here. You can ask me personally and I'll tell you.

I went to Vegas shortly after my birthday, met my good friend Matt out there. We hadn't seen one another in something like four years, so we spent a good deal of time catching up while we caroused through Vegas. I wound up ahead some small amount, like $150, Matt did not do so well. We did the Star Trek Experience for the better part of one day, paying homage to the franchise as the attraction is about to close or possibly just be moved.

I'm in talks right now to return home to do Hamlet mid-next year, after my next contract. It'd be my second time in the role and a nice change from the lack of substance in my work lately. The role would be bundled with Billy in CAROUSEL, I'd be directed by my mentor from college, my family would be able to see it all... It'd be a nice change to do something more for the heart instead of the wallet.

My birthday was a blast, an evening of Japanese barbecue, Laser Tag, scotch, and Harry's Uptown.

Did the Cosmosphere and Space Center a week ago, seeing all the cool Apollo 13 stuff and whatnot while enjoying astronaut ice cream and such...

the only real reason I'm posting right now is because I realized I haven't in a while - two weeks, since my birthday... I'll close with a couple of random pictures, which you'll already have seen if you're on facebook. tired. bed now.


It was ridiculously hot and a long walk to this sign, where we has to wait behind a thousand people who were there for some high school basketball thing. Isn't it JULY? High school basketball in July? We were primarily bitter because we'd walked and everyone else had driven and stopped along the side of the road.

I've had a lot of free time ... so photoshop happens, and what's more interesting than Vegas is Cthulhu giving Vegas what it deserves.
And a dramatic retouching of an already staged photograph which I call "The Creation of ROCK"
Michael and Dustin, guy I just met and oldest friend in the world, photoshopped at the Cosmosphere. Apparently reality isn't enough for me, I have to photoshop it to be more interesting. This was a planned shot, I told them we'd add the props and fire later... dear lord I am becoming George Lucas....

Bespectacled and nerdy with a photon torpedo at the Star Trek Experience. That one isn't photoshopped, I really am that big a geek.