Cuz I havent posted in a while...

Simon's Cat 'Fly Guy'

12th Night Pics

the director asked for 2 moving staircases... and my response was "uhh..."

so, i looked at the play for inspiration (go figure). I really attached myself to the gender play within 12th Night... i looked at art for shapes and color and styles, and then i found Georgia O'Keefe. Below are the fruits of my labor (ahh... forced creativity)

Pterodactyls Pics

i havent blogged about my shows in a long time... so i thought i would! well, kinda.. it wasnt really my idea, initially. but, whatevah!

Pterodactyls, by Nicky Silver, is about a really screwed up, abusive, denile ridden family that all end up dead, usually by their own personal modes of denile. The show turned out pretty good.. i hope you all enjoy!

*Lighting/Scenic/Photography: Kalliope Vlahos

guard turtle?

how fun is this?!

what the f#ck year is this?!?

Look at the article i found...

Amazon.com has sparked outrage after removing books the online retailer deems "adult content" from its sales rankings to make the site more family friendly. The problem? Gay and lesbian books, including the children's tome Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman and a biography of Ellen DeGeneres, were de-listed.

Uh, I'd hardly slap Heather Has Two Mommies or anything written by or about Ellen DeGeneres as adult content, but clearly, Amazon.com simply labeled any book with gay or lesbian content as being adult in nature.

FYI: Titles such as Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson; The Dictionary of Homophobia: A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience edited by Louis-George Tin; and Radclyffe Hills' The Well of Loneliness were also among the hundreds of gay and lesbian books that were de-listed.

Now Amazon.com didn't stop selling these de-listed books. As noted above, the online retailer removed them from its sales rankings, which is not only a slap in the face to the LGBT community but is actually quite damaging for book sales as shoppers are oftentimes influenced by sales rankings.

Amazon.com insists that it didn't intentionally remove gay and lesbian titles from its sales rankings. A spokesperson for the company blames a computer "glitch" and says it will be fixed.
I believe that Amazon.com didn't purposely set out to censor gay and lesbian books. Still, the incident is disturbing because apparently someone at Amazon.com somewhere along the line must have plugged the keywords "gay" and "lesbian" into the program that removed adult content from Amazon.com's sales rankings, and it went unchecked.

Meanwhile, heterosexually-themed books with explicit sexual content including Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds and the graphic novel Lost Girls by Alan Moore were not de-listed.
So readers, what do you make of this controversy? Do you believe Amazon.com's claim that it unintentionally rated gay and lesbian books as adult content, and even if you do, does that make this incident any less upsetting?

Stonewall, part two

from The Advocate:

The Gay City News reports that at least 27 men were arrested for prostitution in eight porn shops in Manhattan in 2008. Since 2004 there have been 52 such arrests in eight difference businesses.


According to a statement by the group, the arrest is usually set up so that an attractive younger officer is sent out to approach middle-aged gay men. The officer allegedly entices the man to have sex. If the man agrees, the undercover officer says he wanted to pay the man for sexual favors, and then, before the man can accept or reject the transaction, he is surrounded by police to make an arrest.

powerful words

"Missing:" A message video by UNICEF about Maternal Mortality from Big Yellow Taxi on Vimeo.

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lol slightly graphic... well, if blown up condoms can be that...

Durex Get it On Viral

The Great Turtle Race

Fucking funny!!

What are we to do?

I am all for change. I mean really, do you know me?? I am all for fixing our economy. I am all for helping people stay in their homes. But.... how? How is the problem going to get fixed if all we're doing is throwing money (we do not have) at the problem? It's much like when a theatre production comes across a problem: the theatre with tons of money will just throw some at the issue until it goes away; the theatre with no money will figure out how the problem began and what steps need to be done (or re-done) to solve it.

Unfortunately, our country is not a theatre (although, sometimes....). But I do not see why we can't take the time to really see what went wrong and how we can fix it at the core level, and not just superficially (our economy is not a bum caster on a platform).

I don't really have an answer. I hope that our new people at the top do.... but.... i'm not really all that confident.

poor ella... she's nervous about her annual exam. i hope they warm up all the tools...

Holy Crap this is funny!!!

MADtv - I Kissed a Girl Spoof (Season 14 Episode 2)

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.