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9/21/2005 01:04:00 AM
Rock And Roll The Funny Show
Yes Yes Yes!!!!
We had a really funny and fun show at Second City tonight, which was great because the big cheese from Chicago was in the audience. I'm very proud of my castmates. Scriptless kicks ass.
For the rest of the post I will write like I'm a pirate.
Yar, avast and ahoy ye scurvy dogs. Thar be a busy week ahead. Watch ye the televised programmin' on the morn of Thursday and ye may catch a fleetin' glimpse of the dread Klingon, Voqha! Me friend Doug and I were singin' the Karaoke till 5am on Monday night. Arrgh, twas a mighty wind of song did flow through the Golden Palm Casino. I be missin' Anne and thar be no cure for me ache filled heart 'cross all the seven seas save her sweet return to me harbor. I'd give all the treasure in Davy Jones Locker just to see her with me one unpatched eye. Arghh aaaa noo tis the great white shark! Get 'em off the deck ya swabs! noooo! That were me one good leg ye demon of the depths!
ok that's enough of that
the pirate was completely eaten by the shark though, kind of sad.
TFP
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9/12/2005 03:56:00 PM
Party Over
So Todd and Sin are leaving for real on friday. Boo.
The party last night was a nice one. Very chill and fun, no ass clowns fucking up my Christmas. Doing lots of little bits of housework today. Just not terribly motivated for some reason. Summertime blues perhaps? Well it is almost fall so I don't know. I was able to put plant outside today because the Vegas devil heat has finally subsided. I am going to get on my eliptical trainer today. I think that's really what I need just some good brisk physical activity. That, and like a million dollars. Work has been boring lately cause this time of year is slow and I have so many little projects I want to do and......argh I just get a little nuts. Well My show tomorow night is canceled so I sort of have a free night, still have a meeting to attend but that's less taxing than preformance, I hope. Maby this work week will be a bit smoother and I can get back into a groove. We shall see.
TFP
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9/09/2005 04:22:00 PM
OHHH Scary
Hello from sunny Santa Clara!
I'm here visiting Anne, she had to work for a while today but soon she will be back. I have been flipping channels for a while and kept coming across the Haunted Hotel's specials on the Travel channel. I think they should call the Travel Channel the Haunted Place Channel like they should call the History Channel the Hitler Channel. All day today they are playing haunted this, and ghostly that. They are even advertising a commercial for a Favorite Haunted Places countdown tonight. That's right, Favorite Haunted Places. My favorite Haunted Place would be one that is not in fact haunted. I have had my brushes with the "other side" as it were, nothing too terrifying, still I would never count those experiences on any list of my favorite anything. Boo, indeed. Memo to travel channel people, it ain't even October yet!
So we cleaned the hell out of stuff this week. It was fun, mostly. Then we watched the O.C. season premier. It was cool to see jerry Ryan on the O.C. One more example of the six degrees of Star Trek. I hope Julie Cooper Nichol gets assimilated this season. tee hee.
Firefly is on now. It's the Janestown episode. Damn funny stuff. Can't wait for the Serenity movie!!
We went to see The 40 Year Old Virgin. I have not laughed so much at a movie in a long time. I highly endorse this film. It receives the 5 Paul rating-the highest rating available!! Go see it. All I'm saying is the hero has lots and lots of toys still in the boxes. Let's go nerds!
I have eaten lots of sushi and cheesecake
I went down one size in my jeans from a 38 to a 36 waist. I am holding on. Now that I am finally over my cold from last week I intend to resume my workout regimen.
Honk, I will call you soon
Leen and Phill, Love ya nice photos, good to see Aunt Mary
Todd And Sin farewell party is this Sunday the 11th-8pm at the Cherokee house
BYOB and something nice for these soon to be Hosers!
TFP
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9/04/2005 01:08:00 AM
KAHN!
So its time I wrote about the star trek convention last month.
OMFG! Crazy town is the word. But it was all very exciting still. Guests began arriving as early as the week before. We start to see a trickle of familiar faces make their way down to Quarks bar. I was able to finish my commercials and trivia video bits for the que line just before the con really took off on Thursday. Friday I spent the whole day doing the Backstage Tour at the experience. We are finally telling the trekkies that it's all fake! It's actually kind of cool to do these as a change of pace and get the chance to interact with people when I am not covered in Klingon garb. I really know way too much about Trek now. I guess I have just osmosed it all over these nearly 8 years of service to the Klingon empire. Friday I hit the con.
So at the convention itself we walk around the dealers room, which is a kind of heaven on earth for a geek like myself. I always see some rare piece of Simpsons swag or a Darth Vader figure that flips my lid. Lots of cool people to talk to also. Many are dressed up just like we are so the "ha ha, fuck you you stupid Klingon" stuff is kept to a minimum. We respect our own. It really is like no other time of the year. It's geek Christmas and our lord and savior William Shattner was there too. You really have to go to a couple of these things before the subtle nuances begin to sink in. Some dealers are there just to sell and not there to chit chat. Others hate whatever wares they have to sell and all the geek crap associated with it. Some of them are there mostly for social interaction or trying to pawn off some crazy new gadget or a salad shooter that looks like Spock or some such hoo ha. Some of the "Celebrity Guests" are the coolest people you would ever want to meet. Some of them barely remember what episode of TOS they were playing Romulan Commander no. 2 in back in 66 and could give two large rat turds about trek. The room is full of all kinds of trinkets, old TV guides, movie posters, autographed lithographs, t-shirts from every tiny niche geek corner of the world. I'm still in need of a "smeg off" t from Red Dwarf. The best of the best are the fan fiction books. So many little paperback stories of Kirk and Spock and their forbidden love. "I didn't know you were an author, Voq'ha!", said my Ferengi friend Quan as he held up a particularly tawdry copy of "As I Do Thee", Kirk and Spock locked in an embrace on the cover. It was all I could do not to giggle myself silly. No we save the giggles for the breaks we take off the floor. We came up with new trek shirt ideas like one with Nelix's face on it that just says "Now we're cookin'". Oh lord I think that is so funny, and so do about sixteen other people in the known world.
Saturday was busy as well. I got to go meet and greet a few folks out of makeup finally cause the bar stays open late at con time. A big shout out to my pal Robert, a newly minted Marine. I met him as Voq'ha a year ago and we talked for nearly an hour at the bar about military stragety, the code of bushiddo and how it all relates to the Klingon empire and their need to remain independent of the United Federation Of Planets. It was awesome. Truly this man is a Klingon, even more so than I. Finally meeting him out of makeup was great fun. It reminds me of why I love my job so much to make just one persons day brighter because they got to meet a "Real Klingon".
Sunday was bittersweet as it was Todd's last day as Bleeg. Voq'ha was helping to mc the trivia contest and in the middle of the bonus round I began to sing "Faith of the Heart" the theme from "Enterprise", dedicated to Bleeg. The whole bar was singing. I got misty. If you have never heard 200 drunk Star Trek fans sing "Faint of the Heart', your life has been missing something.
There was much more to the con that I did not get to see because I was working, but what I always see at this time of year is love. Love for a failed television show that only lasted three seasons and went own to spawn an entertainment empire. Love for dreamers and visionaries crazy enough to design the future thirty years before it happened. Love for all kinds of humans, be they white, black, gay, straight, blind, extroverted, crippled, introverted, Vulcan, Klingon, what have you. Star Trek is still a great symbol of understanding and embracing diversity. The Enterprise may be limping a bit right now, but the fans of Trek are boldly going at warp factor 9 straight ahead. Good Luck Star Trek, Happy 39th Birthday.
TFP
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