Model Minority

Okay.  In a bit of self indulgency and recognizing that I am egotistical and attention mongering I am starting this blog here.  Will it last?  Meh.  We’ll find out.  So until I get into the rythm of actually talking to myself, the first few entries will be all over the place.

First, one of the primary reasons for this laughable bit of web media is that I am starting to get involved in theater again after a year hiatus.  It’s been over two years since I was involved in theater on the west coast.  Since I’m an out of the closet bi-coastal, I like to keep east-coasters updated on the goings on here and for reasons that escape me they seem to enjoy the updates.  So instead of en masse emails in the age of spams, forwards, and viruses, I decided a blog would be appropriate.

So here are the bullet points:

1. The show I’m doing is one I co-wrote with my good friend and esteemed colleague called "The Las Vega-Nauts".  It’s being produced by the Thunderbird Theatre Co. In a bit of further insanity, this is being directed by yours truly.  Now, this ain’t Chekov or Beckett. It’s a rather light hearted comedic farce but its a full stage play with fight choreography, multiple characters, and an overall higher production value than I’ve encountered before in my time with my other theater group, spurn.  There are an excellent array of adjectives available in your unused copy of a thesaurus to be synonymous with "oh jesus god and buddha…what the hell am I thinking?!"  Those feelings have mostly subsided but they do rise up ocassionally like bile or a geriatric penis.  They’ve now mostly been replaced with an eagerness to get started…again like the aformentioned male organ.  We’ll hold our first public table read next Thursday so we’ll see how that goes.

2. So I am an unashamed liberal but i hate rhetoric because god knows there’s enough of it and I don’t plan on making this into a soapbox but here’s something we can all appreciate…really bad commercials.  So bad it invites mocking on all sides of the political spectrum.  I speak of the new Moveon.org commercial that parodies the largest independent movie in history.  I enjoy a good star wars parody like everybody else but this bit of cheap flash animation is just achingly bad.  Just cause your a grassroots movement doesn’t mean you have to take in sh*t people.  Are we trying to reach the untapped political power of the raging star wars fanatic?

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