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.