Another cold morning, another lazy me.
It Just Wasn’t The Same!
You’d think that going to Horizon Theatre with one woman would make it the best year ever, I went with two women last night. I picked up Betsy and Terri last night and we ate dinner at Wrecking Bar Brewpub before going to the Horizon. But alas it wasn’t, and it certainly wasn’t anything my fine friends did.
I’d heard from Betsy on Monday night that Horizon had changed up the play this year, having the lead actor speak all of the lines. Here is their official statement:
LOVE SANTALAND? It’s the same show you love, but this year with a new twist!
HO, HO, HO, THIS WAS WRITTEN AS A ONE-PERSON SHOW.
BUT WE FOUND IT WAS SO MUCH BETTER WITH THREE.
OUR ELFIN HELPERS STEAL THE SHOW AND GIVE US HO, HO, HOS
BUT THIS YEAR, THEY MUST DO IT SILENTLY.
THE AUTHORS OBJECTED, SO WE GENUFLECTED
AND GOT CREATIVE WITH OUR TALENTED CREW.
SO NOW, CRUMPET HAS THE WORDS, THE SIDEKICKS ARE NOT HEARD
AND THEIR COMEDY IS REVEALED IN WHAT THEY DO!
SO IT’S TIME FOR A FUN RIDE WITH LAUGHTER ON OUR SIDE
AND A SANTALAND THAT’S BRIGHT, SHINY AND SOMEWHAT NEW!This year The Santaland Diaries features David/Crumpet, played again by Harold M. Leaver, speaking all of the lines in the show! The sidekick elves, played by Lala Cochran and Enoch King, are back again in all of their hilarious roles, and their lines will be spoken, as in the original essay The Santaland Diaries, by David/Crumpet.
The authors of The Santaland Diaries conceived it as a one-person show, and have required that we revise our production to adhere to their original intention and the original script. So the comic antics of our sidekick elves are hilarious, but non-verbal this year.
I won’t return if this is the case next year.
ITP Flickr Pic From The Archives
1999: “Me And Santa (1999)” (Atlanta, Georgia, United States)
Ah my first year of hashing. Look at the hope that my younger and thinner face had back in those days.
ITP Flickr Pic
My intent today was to include a photo of something I’ve never seen before, which is not that hard to do but I didn’t get around to doing. Sorry, but it’s too cold out currently for me to go and take a photo of it.
When I was going out to the show last night I was somewhat flabbergasted as I sat in my car and watched the following. I saw a squirrel inching its way down a tree near a bush that appeared to have a fallen branch within it based on the color pattern I saw. And then I watched the squirrel jump onto this bush and proceed to strip a long stretch of bark from the bush using its teeth and then carry the bark to its nest. Apparently what I thought was a fallen branch was a branch of the bush that had numerous such strips of bark removed from it.
Here the damage that the squirrel managed to do:
One Day On
I’m going to have a very busy day.
I will be starting my day at LA Fitness, getting an hour in on a stationary bicycle.
From LA Fitness I will be heading to the lavanderia to do a ton of laundry.
I need to go to Lowe’s to recycle some old fluorescent bulbs, and to buy a new light switch to replace the one crapped out, appropriately in the bathroom, yesterday. Look at me! Fixing something immediately! Of course I say this before the actual fix is made. For all I know the wiring between the switch and the lights was gnawed to death by rats and squirrels and will have to be replaced.
Finally I will swing by a Dekalb Public Library and drop off the movie Meru, that I watched yesterday. This documentary was very well done and I recommend watching it if you like movies about mountain climbing and friendships.
One Night Off
Staying home tonight to watch Christmas movies, eat copious leftovers, and relax. I have something planned for the next four days/nights.
Christmas Cheers!
Paulie [eatl/ga]
I find it odd that the “licensor” would give a crap as to how the production was done. They got their money, let it go…
After a hard 35 minutes of suffering, we had dinner and then watched a special on the White House. Lots of behind the scenes from this and previous administrations. I have read several books on the workings of the WH and one especially interesting book about the Presidents and their support of future administrations, regardless of party (as it should be). I also realized as I watched it how I will miss the current administration. Just simply a class act.
Tonight, an engagement party for the son of some horsey friends- should be fun.
And since Stacy was AWOL from the blog yesterday, I advised her of pending bowling opportunities, but she had some lame excuse about watching Green Bay play Saturday afternoon (;-)
-FP
I watched that last night too Steve! I just happened across it and thought I would see what it was about, 90 minutes later I was still watching. Very cool to see all the behind the scenes stuff going on. Here it is on line if you are interested http://www.gpb.org/television/shows/the-white-house-inside-story
LOL! Hey now, Steve. A girl’s gotta stand behind her Packers!
Thanks for the link Bob – I was reading what Steve wrote and thought: oh, I’m sorry I missed that! Sounds really interesting. I may watch it tonight now.
That play sounds horrid as a “one-man” show. Why mess with a good thing?
They were forced to mess with it. I felt badly for Betsy and Terri who had never previously seen it.
Like the Packers game won’t be on at the bowling alley! 😛 oh that’s right, it may not be.
Lowe’s run done, about to start my workout.
Actually- when we were there a few weeks ago (when it was still Brunswick) they did have football on everywhere………..
Busy today here at work – was slow a few days & now I’m slammed today.
Last night our friends from NJ had a quick overnight stop – so good to catch up with them & plan our vacation out to Zion in May – in person was so nice compared to the usual way by email.
It blows my mind how quickly businesses change.
Lowe’s – ✔ï¸
LA Fitness – ✔ï¸
Lunch – ✔ï¸
Lavanderia – in progress
Library –
Huh, today was brought to you by the letter ‘L’
So then Libations will follow Library?
I like the way you think Bob!
If I said I thought Bob was wrong, I’d be LYING!! (I crack myself up)
Anybody watching the weather for Saturday? Will it even be nice enough of fry? Isn’t it supposed to rain?
If the weather isn’t nice – the Delkwood Grill is right next door, they have a pretty decent menu, and some pretty tasty pizza.
We could do that before (as they will be closing at 5pm – I just called)
Looks like a 60% chance of rain right now but it is 3 days away, weather people are never that accurate. I think we can make the call on Friday of frying or pizza.
possible cold rain & frying do not sound like fun……..
we will talk Friday! (or Saturday morning)
Libations is the only thing remaining on my To-Do list.
Funny, inside my mailbox today was the backup battery for my home alarm system – two days late, seeing how I have already bought and installed one on Monday. Oh well.
is it the exact same battery?
take it back to Batteries & More?
Haven’t opened the box yet. Since I have already installed the other one i don’t feel right retuning it, so I will keep both. Now I always have a spare on hand.