The Twelve Daze of Christmas

Some of the pics this guy used make no sense... but it's so funny!! i've been singing this for days!!!

Lame video, great remake of my fav xmas time song :)

K.T.Tunstall - 2000 Miles

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

A little Lighting Humor...

A running joke...

Q: How many actors does it take to change a light bulb?

A: None. Complain to the director at notes.

Q: How many directors does it take to change a light bulb?

A: None. Give a note to the stage manager to fix it!

Q: How many stage managers does it take to change a light bulb?

A: None. Pull the technical director off of a set installation to deal with it.

Q: How many technical directors does it take to change a light bulb?

A: None. Call the master electrician at home to fix it.

Q: How many master electricians does it take to change a light bulb?

A: We don't change bulbs, only halogen lamps. It's a props problem.

Q: How many props masters does it take to change a light bulb?

A: Light bulb?! When did they even get a lamp?

My new favorite song! so sweet!!

Official Jason Mraz - I'm Yours video

WTF

The day after thanksgiving, a person is trampled to DEATH at a Wal-mart because of greed. Is that irony? I dont know... but is incredibly depressing. The story from he New York Times is below.



A Wal-Mart employee in suburban New York died after he was trampled by a crush of shoppers who tore down the front doors and thronged into the store early Friday morning, turning the annual rite of post-Thanksgiving bargain hunting into a Hobbesian frenzy.

At 4:55 a.m., just five minutes before the doors were set to open, a crowd of 2,000 anxious shoppers started pushing, shoving and piling against the locked sliding glass doors of the Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, N.Y., Nassau County police said. The shoppers broke the doors off their hinges and surged in, toppling a 34-year-old temporary employee, Jdimypai Damour of Jamaica, Queens, who had been waiting with other workers in the store’s entryway.

People did not stop to help the employee as he lay on the ground, and they pushed against other Wal-Mart workers who were trying to aid Mr. Damour. The crowd kept running into the store even after the police arrived, jostling and pushing officers who were trying to perform CPR, the police said.

“They were like a stampede,” said Nassau Det. Lt. Michael Fleming. “Hundreds of people walked past him, over him or around him.”

Mr. Damour was taken from the Wal-Mart to nearby Franklin Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:03 a.m., the police said. His exact cause of death has not been determined.

The police said that three other shoppers were injured and a 28-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant was taken to the hospital for observation.

One shopper, Kimberly Cribbs, said she was standing near the back of the crowd at around 5 a.m. on Friday when people started rushing into the store. She said several people were knocked to the ground, and parents had to grab their children by the hand to keep them from being caught in the crush.

“They were falling all over each other,” she said. “It was terrible.”

Crowds began building outside the Wal-Mart at 9 p.m. Thursday and grew throughout the night, as eager shoppers queued up in a line that filled the sidewalk and stretched toward the boundary fence of the Green Acres Mall.

At 3:30 a.m., store employees called the Nassau police to report that the crowd was growing quickly, the police said. Officers came by to try to organize the line, but were called away to a Circuit City, a Best Buy and a B.J.’s Wholesale Club nearby, to deal with crowds there.
A half-dozen Wal-Mart employees lined up in the entryway trying to hold back the crowd by pushing against the locked sliding doors, but they were overwhelmed by the force of the crowd, Lieutenant Fleming said.

As the doors snapped open and people streamed in, several people fell on top of one another. The 34-year-old employee who died was at the bottom of the pile, the police said.
On Friday, Wal-Mart released a statement saying that the man who was killed had been working for Wal-Mart through a temp agency. The company called the death “a tragic situation,” and said it was working with police.

“The safety and security of our customers and associates is our top priority,” Wal-Mart said in a statement.

Lieutenant Fleming said that the store “could have done more” to prevent the melee.
“I’ve heard other people call this an accident, but it’s not,” he said. “This certainly was foreseeable.”

The menu of the 1st Thanksgiving

The Pilgrims' Menu

Foods That May Have Been on the Menu
Seafood: Cod, Eel, Clams, Lobster
Wild Fowl: Wild Turkey, Goose, Duck, Crane, Swan, Partridge, Eagles
Meat: Venison, Seal
Grain: Wheat Flour, Indian Corn
Vegetables: Pumpkin, Peas, Beans, Onions, Lettuce, Radishes, Carrots
Fruit: Plums, Grapes
Nuts: Walnuts, Chestnuts, AcornsHerbs
Seasonings: Olive Oil, Liverwort, Leeks, Dried Currants, Parsnips

What Was Not on the Menu

Surprisingly, the following foods, all considered staples of the modern Thanksgiving meal, didn't appear on the pilgrims's first feast table:

Ham: There is no evidence that the colonists had butchered a pig by this time, though they had brought pigs with them from England.
Sweet Potatoes/Potatoes: These were not common.
Corn on the Cob: Corn was kept dried out at this time of year.
Cranberry Sauce: The colonists had cranberries but no sugar at this time.
Pumpkin Pie: It's not a recipe that exists at this point, though the pilgrims had recipes for stewed pumpkin.
Chicken/Eggs: We know that the colonists brought hens with them from England, but it's unknown how many they had left at this point or whether the hens were still laying.
Milk: No cows had been aboard the Mayflower, though it's possible that the colonists used goat milk to make cheese.

ugh.

Pictures from my latest show

Below are some pics i took from my latest show, Endgame. I did the scenic, lighting, and sound designs... and of course did some of the construction.... my favorite item is the wheel chair shopping cart. HEB donated a perfectly intact shopping cart, and I spent about two days turning it into a wheel chair.

I would love to know what everyone thinks of this design, it's my favorite thus far...

sunrise over the highway

the view walking out of my apt this morning. so pretty...

Bush is drinking again! (Late Late Show)

omg this is funny!!

a little Tegan and Sara

The Con

I listened in,
Yes, I'm guilty of this, you should know this.
I broke down and wrote you back,
Before you had a chance to.
Forget forgotten, I am moving past this,
Giving notice.
I have to go,
Yes, I know that feeling, know you're leaving.

Calm down, I'm calling you to say,
I'm capsized, erring on the edge of safe.
Calm down, I'm calling back to say,
I'm home now and coming around, coming around.
Nobody likes to,
But I really like to cry.
Nobody likes me,
Maybe if I cry.

Spelled out your name and list the reasons.
Faint of heart, don't call me back.
I imagine you and I was distant, not existent.
I followed suit and laid out on my back,
Imagine that.
A million hours left to think of you and think of that.

Calm down, I'm calling you to say,
I'm capsized, staring on the edge of safe.
Calm down, I'm calling back to say,
I'm home now and coming around, coming around.
Nobody likes to,
But I really like to cry.
Nobody likes me,
Maybe if I cry.

Encircle me,
I need to be taken down.
Encircle me,
I need to be taken down.
Encircle me,
I need to be taken down.
Encircle me,
I need to be taken down.

Nobody likes to,
But I really like to cry.
Nobody likes me,
Maybe if I cry.

Nobody, nobody, nobody,
Nobody, nobody, nobody,
Nobody, nobody, nobody.


Encircle me,
I need to be taken down.
Encircle me,
I need to be taken down.
Encircle me,
I need to be taken down.

so silly...

"I Love My Cat"

A wonderful quote

...that a friend posted in a blog and that i would like to share with you all! i wish knew who wrote it.

'Rosa sat so Martin could walk. Martin walked so that Obama could run. Obama is running so that our children can fly.'

At the end of Holloween night...

i looked like this....

Seriously?!

Why are americans putting up with this ---> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081030/ap_on_bi_ge/earns_exxon_mobil_3

Exxon has the highest profits to date within its own history. This means to me, that gas prices could be lowered to like $1.00... that's all i'm saying...

Dr. House sings!!

Hugh Laurie-The Sophisticated Song

to sum it up...

Sarah Mania! Sarah Palin's Greatest Hits

a horrible storm and...

a little House

Hugh Laurie on The Late Late Show

Queen Rania of Jordan speaks about women in Islam

Queen Rania of Jordan interview with CNN. Part 1 0f 2

Amusing little roast

Obama Roasts John McCain Alfred E. Smith Charity Dinner

The Dark side of Miss Piggy

whoever edited this video was amazing! dont mind the bad language... just check out the artistry in how well she synched everything!! it's hilarious!!

When Cats Attack

dun dun duuuunnnnn!!! meeeeooowwww

Palin and Clinton speak together...

but not really. soooo funny!!


Sarah Palin, Tina Fey on SNL

Palin interview

ok.. not really... but freakin' hilarious!


SNL Palin Interview Couric

Eve Ensler on Palin

Drill, Drill, Drill

-Eve Ensler

I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.

I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.

I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity.

Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, "It was a task from God."Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion.

She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or not.She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes.

Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air.

Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.

I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.

If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, "Drill Drill Drill." I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain.

Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?

what happens to evil giraffes...

Robot Chicken Giraffe In Quicksand HD

Posing Bar Kitty

the deaf kitty i met at a bar... she posed for me even!!

Dennis Kucinich * WAKE UP AMERICA!!!* Dems Convention 2008

OOooOOOO!!! I AM SOOO EXCITED!!!

It's coming to theatre's on November 21st!!

[OFFICIAL] Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Trailer

Faces of the world...

if you wanna see some more funny... and oddly eerie... images, click here ---> http://flabbergastedly.com/?p=96

A different take on S...E...X... hilarious!

"i feel pretty... oh, so pretty..."

building stuff NOT in a theatre... weeeiiiirrrrrd!

oh my freaking god!

Scuba Cat

what else is there to do on a thursday night but go to a drum corps competition??

A country song i actually like!

Gunpowder and Lead with lyrics

For Dena and Jamili and Ziad...and any other Sushi Lover

A $1,000 Sushi Roll!!

the High Roller sushi roll that sells for $1000 will be ll be served at Koi restaurant in New York : It starts with marinated and poached fois gras that is covered with succulent Langoustine (lobster). Then the roll is brushed with saffron/vanilla bean butter and encrusted with caviar. Finally, when the roll is served the Chef comes tableside to shave white Alba truffles and drizzle them with 100 year balsamic.

Are you guys drooling??

Dance of the Censor Bars!!

this is pretty darn funny!

let's put on our Freud Hats...

....paint gloves and corndog... the psychology of carpentry....

Pics of the True Colors Concert

So, last night i was randomly invited to the True Colors Benifit Concert ... at first, i wasn't too excited - it was just something to do... then i realized what it was! OMG!!! it was soooooo awesome!!

Basically, it is a benifit concert which was begun by Cyndi Lauper to raise awareness and money to support the GLBT community... "From day one, the tour has sought to raise awareness about the discrimination the GLBT community still faces and raise significant funds for the organizations that work everyday on their behalf." Please click on the link above to read about it!

Unfortunatly, the pictures i tried to take on my phone sucked. BUT, i found some online! Here they are!!


The Host was Carson Kressley of the Fab 5!

The Comic... Wanda Sykes!


Opening Act (and my new crush) Lili Haydn!

Special Guest Andy Bell of Erasure singing with Cyndi Lauper!


First big act (and my old crush renewed) Joan Jett!!!! love that cocky smile she tosses around!


Best Party Band EVER!!! The B52's!!!! and yes... they performed Rock Lobster, Love Shack, and Roam if you want to!!!


And finally, the woman who put this tour together... Cyndi Lauper! She was beyond awesome!!

wtf!!!

"Politico.com broke a story Wednesday that two Muslim women wearing head scarves were prohibited from sitting behind Obama at a rally, so as to prevent any unintended photo ops. The campaign issued a statement and contacted the women to apologize, but the message was clear: Obama can't afford to seem too outside the mainstream."

MadTV - Wizard of Oz (Alternate Ending)

Hilarious!!!! Exactly how i thought it should end...

New to me artist

My friend Sara introduced me to this Colorado singer. it's a friend of hers... love her sound!! Her silliness is sweet and endearing! Check her out!

Algea as energy??

Why, yes!!

Re-claiming the table

....all she needs is a flag lol

not dead yet!

i moved the couch... and found a massive cat toy grave yard. i ask you for a moment of silence.... .... .... .... .... .... thank you.

SOOOOO TRUUEEEE

It's like a morning with Nelly!!

Simon's Cat 'Cat Man Do'

The Cabaret is....

...starting to look like the real thing!!!

Bahahah!!

Heat Fozzy

fruit

i love me some fruit! doesn't my phone take great pics?!?

just getting started...

what i'm working on for the cabaret... just splashing light around

do i look like a boy?

focusing side light... self portrait...

Effect change...

we all can do it. words, action, thought. we can do it.

[Magiclab] Amnesty International

if i were a dog....

:D

Lookit what i can do!

Here are some pictures of the lastest Dance Concert the college produced... The lighting and photography was done by me... i'd love to know what you think!


Intense solo to Precious Things by Tori Amos. The dancer wanted to look like she was dancing in fire... what do you think??


OMG this piece blew my mind! I am very impressed by how well this student dancer handled such a difficult piece. It was in complete silence and the emotional charge of it was crazy!!

Fun piece to light...

i did the lighting for most of the concert...except this one (and two others, not pictured in this blog)... this is one of the very first student designed ANYTHINGs at Kingwood... i was the student's Advisor... yeah, i pushed some lighting buttons - i couldnt resist...

cuz she deserves a repeat appearance...

KT Tunstall - I Want You Back (Jackson 5 cover)

Fantastic

Sarah Kay - Hands - With HBO's Def Poetry Jam

Pussy Revolution

I went to the Bitch and The Exciting Conclusion concert last night. it was a night filled with the energy of strength and revolution and woman... in the end, i was surrounded by a chanting mass of beautiful and empowered women screaming the words "MANifest this Mother Fucker!"

For weeks and weeks, and months and months I have been so sad and frustrated with the LACK of protest and the overwhelming feeling of apathy. Last night eased me... Last night i was reminded that WE are here, still fighting. We cry for justice. We cry for movement. We are at WAR... right here, on our soil... if only the "masses" could wake up and smell the fires burning. Let's add more fuel to those fires and come together (male and female) and breathe the power of pussy!

((i know you my not have heard me speak like this and that some of you will cringe at some of the words i have chosen to use... but, get over it! when i refer to the power of pussy, i refer to the power of change, of birth, of REgeneration, of kindness, and of passion... come with me on this ride to freedom from patriarchy and capitalism and a sudo-DICKtatorship.. come with me and be strong!))

Here is a pic of Bitch singing Red Roof... if you wanna listen to it, check out my myspace!

Annddd... here's a pic of one of the autographs i got... th other is on the CD i bought... and yes - it says All Witches... as in remember all of the women who died because of the falsities that were used to oppress women...

Gloria Steinem speaks...

... i generally listen...



In this article, she talks about McCain and her thoughs on is POW time... and gives her thoughts on Clinton...

http://www.observer.com/2008/stumping-clinton-steinem-says-mccains-p-o-w-cred-overrated?page=8

here's a snippet:

"“Suppose John McCain had been Joan McCain and Joan McCain had got captured, shot down and been a POW for eight years. [The media would ask], ‘What did you do wrong to get captured? What terrible things did you do while you were there as a captive for eight years?’” Steinem said, to laughter from the audience."

Gotta watch the whole thing!!

Evolution of Dance

Norah Jones - Rosie's Lullaby

Had to run the board...

head-set hair... it's a bad bad thing...

powerful

Spoken Word Poetry THE MALE EGO

The kid in me enjoyed this very much!

lol


Banana Mascot Scares People To Death

Have you ever had a moment like this...?

see more loldogs ask - i can has hotdog?

It was in my head...

Now it's in yours!! HA!

Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen

closeup of a bloody gate of hell

they asked if i could tie a noose....

yes... i can tie a f-ing noose! the things you do for theatre