btw

I watched CNN at a hotdog bar called Teo's. It sure had a lot of stuff about Iraq and insurgents, but it suuuuuure as heck didn't cover this story.

Doesn't the word N-E-W-S mean "stuff that matters"?

blood vessel spider

For the last year I've had a blood vessel on my nose, and never knew it. It was growing, spreading little capilaries like spider legs and widening across my crown, but all this time (thanks to the superb doctor-like advice of Dr. Chow) I thought it was a cyst. For 6 months I scrubbed it with Rosac cream to appease the doctor-like wisdom of Dr. Chow, thinking that it would magically one day disappear.

Today I saw a dermatologist, whose first words to me past 'Hello' were: "Oh, its a hemoglia." A BLOOD VESSEL, Dr. Chow! BLOOD! Not a cyst! )(@@)IHJRI#RJL. Dermy (as I like to call him) whipped out his magical electric wand and ZAP! the body of the blood spider was no more! The legs, he said reluctantly, might remain. That, dear readers, is the price of listening to the doctor-LIKE spewings of Dr. Chow, 30-somethingish practicer of medicine...sort of.

If the body stays away and the legs fade, I will post a picture. Until then, everybody cross your fingers and legs that they scrizzam!

Helldorado, i mean, THE RUNDOWN

Last night, I caught Z's new piece, 'The Adventures of Pussy (puh-see) and Cordelia', a host of other puppet shorts, and the man who WAS Snuffalupagus shook my hand.


SNUFFY SHOOK MY FREAKING HAND!!!

AHHHH!!!!!! Then he went back to directing his 30-minute slam of Sesame Street, 'Pidgeonholed'. It was great! The set/characters were parodies of classic SS stuff/scenarios; it even had a giant bird and a trash monster. Everything that apparently sucks about working with weirdo puppet people was played up and put on the shoulders of the show's one human character, who desperately wanted to distance herself from Children's TV and do MacBeth. Z had a pretty big part, as the voice of reason / a gerbil who humps a chair and has an on-stage orgasm. NEAT!!



I can't really explain our trip to Block Island (besides that Mideval Madness is officially the best pinball game, ever), but here's a story for ya. SO THERE I WAS, 11 hours straight driving from Baltimore two Sundays ago, just outside Atlanta when it starts to POUR. Rain is coming down so heavy it's horizontal. In 5 minutes, poof - it dissapates to nothing and the sun beams down on my car...causing . . . .

A rainbow! It was massive. In my rearview I saw that it started way off on the horizon and ended...in my trunk! Mist coming off the car must've had some crazy effect, because for about 60 seconds, the end of a rainbow was in the trunk of my Mitsubishi Mirage. Can anybody top that rainbow story??

brb

First of all, take the imagerical journey...with pictures - or just read along. I have a couple hours to shrink/post everything, so it's gonna be brief.

I just had the best vacation ever. Albany -> Atlanta -> Block Island, RI -> Albany. ROAD freaking TRIP.

Cool things done: Stone Mountain, Coke Museum, Oakridge (i think) Cemetary, 'Give Peas a Chance' + 'Brer Rabbit & Friends' puppet shows, Center for Puppet Arts Museum, Truckers Chapel, Block Island, and Medival Madness Pinball, which is apparently the BEST PINBALL GAME EVER.

Gotta scram to Willard!

The vacation continues!

vacation

To the two loyal readers (including one girlfriend and .. you know who you are):

I am taking a break.

This upcoming week I'll be road-tripping down to Atlanta to see Z, afterwhich I'll be at Willard the following week.

Two weeks off of..Albany. Two weeks off from Academy work...hopefully when I get back they'll actually have some more for me to do. Two weeks of avoiding weirdo neighbors, two weeks of not eating pasta every night, two weeks, yes, 14 days and a lot of minutes.

If I'm not seeing you on the way to or from: expect pictures.


See you in dos semanas, suckas

even my Mom won

Saw SWIII for the third time, enjoyed it a little bit more than last time, again.

Afterwards, on one dollar each (with one exception) my ENTIRE FAMILY and newcomer Jimmy won at the Geneva Theatre skill crane. That's right, we are a family that is skilled in the crane, bitches! My prize was a giraffe from the new movie, Madagascar, which reminded me of Lindsey but wasn't cool enough to steal away from the needy kids it'll eventually be donated to.

we RULE.