now…
i was going to post yesterday, but then i spent two nights ago not sleeping very well and having dreams that i wished i wasn’t having — and waking up on more than one occasion, specifically to end a...
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et cetera (and others)
i broke down and paid for a year of VPN service. now the IP address of my linux box is in stockholm, sweden, the IP address of my mac (which is in the same location) is in southhampton, england, and...
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wump
we now have four completed performances of the panto under our belts. it’s going surprisingly well, considering that it’s only the first weekend. our houses have been sparse, but energetic, and i’ve...
View ArticleKid vs. King Rat
The Fremont Players and an epic kid present Kid versus King Rat, 140105, 4:00 pm show. the entire 1½ hour video can be seen here, but this was the highlight of the whole run of performances. basically...
View ArticleSACBO, OCF et cetera
we have three snake suspenderz gigs next week. tuesday we have a gig at horizon house, which we played for last year to great acclaim. thursday we have a gig at the university house, wallingford, which...
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panto started yesterday. 4 shows in and it’s already the best show we’ve ever done, despite the fact that the two fairy tales that we mashed up (Hansel & Gretel and Goldilocks & The Three...
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the third of four weeks of panto performances finished today. i’m confident that Rapunzel Stiltskin is the best panto we have done in the fifteen years that we have been doing pantos. we’ve got one...
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drumpf continues to be a gold-plated asshole. his “muslim/immigrant ban” has been halted, temporarily, but he’s still building a wall, continuing with construction of two major oil pipelines, removing...
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"holiday" season
dont fuck with santa clausthis would be a good time to re-read the VEWPRF rant that i posted in 2008, because… well, it just is. that’s all. the panto started last weekend, and it was good. it wasn’t...
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it’s june. when it changes to july, we’re going to have to go to OCF and put on something resembling a show for the folks. usually, by this time, we’ve got a finished script that the cast has been...
View Articlei should update this thing again…
the most recent thing is that i have “volunteered” to help make the artwork that is going to be used for this year’s panto: the program cover, poster, postcard and banner. i put “volunteered” in...
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chris came over to talk about printing. he actually convinced me to make some minor changes to the back of the postcard: i changed one typeface to bold, and increased it by one point. it was more than...
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2019 panto banner
5’x7.5′ 2019 panto banner, normal-sized cat, for scale. i got the green light to print the banners on tuesday. this is thursday… i’m REALLY impressed: they took our artwork (me, norma, and mimi) and...
View Articlecalm, still no storm… weird…
still calm, still a few “false positives” which are easily dealt with, and forwardable almost immediately… ‼👍 but no “bitcoin sextortion” spam since 191202… and the record is currently held by...
View Articletoo many spoons this weekend
so i went white water rafting on saturday. it started with getting up at zero dark thirty so that i could leave at 6:30 to get to st. fred’s house by 8:00. then it was breakfast at st. fred’s (bacon,...
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monday
now that the second weekend of performances are over, i can catch up on my real life… while the servers were down, i got a business card in the mail from Mitnick Security Consulting, LLC… yes, that...
View Articlethe shows, the bobs, and not being home on xmas
the shows went amazingly well this weekend. i’m getting the hang of playing my saw with a bow, but i’m not that good at playing actual notes yet. it may take a while for me to be that good. we went to...
View Articleokay, 2010 has actually started now…
the busy season started about 2 weeks ago. i’ve had a rehearsal for the fremont philharmonic, and a rehearsal for the fremont players every week, plus i’ve had a banda gozona rehearsal every other...
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it’s definitely rehearsal season…
last week, monday i had a fremont phil rehearsal, tuesday i had a sousa band rehearsal, wednesday i had a players rehearsal, thursday i had a banda gozona rehearsal, friday i had a BBWP rehersal,...
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okay, i’m here…
i am totally exhausted from SACBO and surrounding festivities, and i’ve been pretty depressed most of the day (the morning after blues?), but i’m slowly coming around. it rained pretty much all day...
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yesterday i got up at an ungodly hour (6:30 am) and went to pick up my wanna-be-art-car from one repair shop, and drove it 15 miles to another repair shop where they’re allegedly going to fix it. on...
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OY!!
today was one of the most infuriating days i have lived through in a long, long time… i woke up this morning and turned on my computer, and it wouldn’t connect to internet… wonderful… and, of course,...
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wow²…
i got paid for the panto performances that i took part in from december 2010 to january 2011… the check was twice as big as i expected…
View Articlebusy busy busy…
let’s see… fremont phil rehearsals this week, monday and wednesday, tuesday was my 13th wedding anniversary, thursday held a fremont phil performance at a private “ice cream social” in richmond beach,...
View Article鮭汁
鮭汁 so i’ve been feeling really subdued since being cracked last week… despite the fact that it didn’t really affect me that much, and i recovered quickly and completely with no more hassle and upset...
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miscellaneous random
the entire Voynich Manuscript is now online, where intrigued people (like me) can pore over it, download pages and wonder what Emperor Rudolph II of Germany thought was worth 66.4 troy ounces of gold…...
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the first of december
a year ago, paddy was still alive and i was getting ready for a litter of new puppies. now, paddy is dead, the litter is gone except for one huge monstrostity of a dog who is now as big plus half as...
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another weekend of panto performances…
i keep meaning to make some hobo nickles for holiday gifts. they only cost a nickle and people really appreciate them. look it up. i may post pictures, if i get around to making some… eventually…...
View Articlebleah… but more from a mental standpoint than from a physical one…
yesterday was the one year anniversary of paddy’s departure. moe has a tribute over here. along the same lines, we just found out yesterday that ziggy, our youngest ancient cat (he’s 16) has three...
View Articleanother week of performances finished
we’ve got one more week of panto left this year. i say this every year, but this year’s show is probably the best show we’ve ever done: the jokes that are supposed to go over the kids’ heads do so with...
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i just received my check for one “panto” share… four digits before the decimal point!
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this weekend is the start of four weeks of panto performances. tickets are selling out quickly, but if you’re in the area, we are still accepting “friends and family” for the 15th december...
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things are winding down…
Hybrid Elephant has filled a number of incense orders in the last month, as well as dealt with people who order from outside the US and don’t read the shipping policy. i still haven’t figured out a...
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i got my first inquiry about the Incense Of The Month Club today, which is good, because i was beginning to think that nobody would respond. alledgedly, there will be something that i can actually see,...
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both blirgday &c.
on this day, in 2007, i started this blog, as a response to livejournal selling out to the russians, which means that this blog has been in existence for 15 years, in more-or-less the same place. i...
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last saturday and sunday were the first four performances of the panto during the winter holiday season, in three years. the last time we actually had a panto performance during the holdiay season was...
View Articleit’s already almost halfway through january…😒
moe is going to orlando on saturday. we finished with the panto last weekend, and, yesterday, macque tested positive for COVID, which means that he likely was exposed at the panto. moe sez she’s going...
View Articleless than a week until OCF… why am i paralyzed with anxiety? 😒
officially, less than a week until OCF, and i’ve been accomplishing a lot, but i feel like i’m headed for doom… my list of things to take to OCF is about 80% complete and prepared, and i’m already...
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immediatly post-OCF
microdosing the fair was successful beyond my wildest imaginations!! i took a .25 gram capsule, every morning at 0700 or so, so if i were to have some kind of major psychedelic effects manifest, i...
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misc. update-ish
i ordered some jewelry from an artist in poland. i’ve been tracking it for a month, now. from poland, it spent almost two weeks undergoing microscopic scrutiny in customs, in florida, and then it took...
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