Weekend Hi-Jinks

Well, this weekend was incredibly productive.  Rick made Jared take his shirt off without ever setting foot on stage:

 

Anne portrayed a lisping turkey who, for some reason, forced Michele do to all the mud worm digging:

 

Jared, Trayse and Craig(e) explored the world’s longest, uh, "smoking apparatus" and its effects:

 

And we bid a fond farewell to dear, sweet David Ryan… our first 07-08 Journeyman to depart!

 

I’ll be posting videos soon… probably after I return from beautiful downtown Monona, WI.  So stay posted… and see you this weekend for our final two shows of the season! 

Gestures

You know what I love?  Amusing photo captions that had no intention of being amusing.

 

"Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, gestures in the direction of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen during a news conference at the Pentagon"

Okay… first of all… you couldn’t get a better picture than one of someone "gesturing in the direction of" someone else?  Second of all… you couldn’t give it a more active caption… speaking, explaining, arguing, glaring, covering up a fart… anything?  Third of all… when I "gesture in the direction" of someone… I don’t usually use that many fingers. 

Platypuses… Platypi…

This has nothing to do with anything.  I’m just amused with anything regarding the Platypus.  And really, how often do they make headlines?

Now make sure to go reserve your tickets for Cloud 9 at The Warehouse.  I watched a preview on Tuesday, and it is well worth the watch!  Fun and raunchy and insightful and just plain important!

 

New Ideas for a New Carolina

Guess what?  We at The Distracted Globe have ideas.  Yeah!  Sometimes that happens!  Weird, huh?  Well, even weirder, sometimes we tell people about those ideas!  And this year, we submitted one of those ideas to New Carolina’s New Ideas for a New Carolina competition.  And now, it’s sitting on the ballot in the wildcard category, waiting to be voted on by normal people like you, so that it can be passed on to Stephen Colbert’s wife for judging.  And… since Stephen never responded to any of our challenges during his short-lived campaign (big sissy), I’m pretty sure she owes us.  But here’s the thing… we need people to vote us into the top five ideas.  So head on over to the website, click on the vote button, and vote for this idea:

"A performing arts organization that will build working partnerships between community amateur groups and professional performing arts groups to focus statewide attention on South Carolina artistic resources."

It’s a rather dry way of explaining that we want to do a progressive theatre festival, bringing productions from all over the state through each other’s venues.  It’ll be awesome!  Vote for us!  Voting closes May 14.  So get out the vote!

And… I promise not to slam any of the other ideas, or demand 27 debates with them, or call in a bunch of way more important South Carolinians to try to overturn the vote, or dig up completely irrelevant people from the ideas’ past to discredit it…  So really… this election (as stated by Ms. Kluge) is far less painful than that other one. 

There.  That’s us campaigning.  And that’s really it!  Even if you don’t vote for us, do vote for someone.  This is an important event for an important organization that is doing a lot of good stuff in South Carolina (for sake of transparency… I know about New Carolina because of the work we do for them at Brains on Fire).

More Stereotypes

Since people so enjoyed the Garden & Gun post last week, I thought I would go ahead and stay on the stereotype train.  Check out these blogs… perhaps the best pieces of insightful internet sociology out there today… other than this blog, of course.

Stuff White People Like

Stuff Christians Like

Read… and be enlightened. 

Thanks to Billy for turning us on to these blogs!  (And also… to the new Distracted Globe uniform… making its appearance in shows this fall.)

UPDATE: Aforementioned Billy stopped by to say howdy (I’ve been googled!  Woohoo!) and mentioned in the comments that the links I posted are actually slightly inferior knockoffs of the original Stuff Christians Like… and I have to admit… it’s funnier.  Enjoy!

You Won’t Believe This

You know, the universe doesn’t usually give you second chances.  But this morning, that’s exactly what it did.  I was driving to work this morning, and what should I see in front of me?

 

That’s right.  Apparently, the Crackheads Gone Wild are hanging around Greenville for a while.  I’ll keep you posted on more sightings. 

And by the way, I watched a preview of Cloud 9 at The Warehouse Theatre last night.  Do yourself a favor.  Go see it.  Be ready to have a great time.  And be ready to leave thinking lots of big important thoughts!  They play this Thursday-Sunday and next Thursday-Saturday.  And we’ve got improv Friday & Saturday.  So much fun, you won’t know what to do with yourself!

I Wish I Were Kidding

This morning as I was driving to work (before I realized that I should have been driving to my Doctor’s office… JUST barely made that appointment, oops!), for about a block I was next to a truck pulling what appeared to be some kind of ATV/Dune Buggy thing.  Both vehicles were plastered with magnets and decals.  Not several different magnets and decals, mind you.  No.  It was all the same.  I fumbled for my camera, but he turned down a side street and I decided not to try to follow him… which is a good thing.  I never would have made my doctor’s appointment if I had spent the morning following around a truck plastered with:

"Crackeads Gone Wild South Carolina."

There was something about a top-selling DVD… and there was a phone number… that I did not write down… since I was too busy looking for my camera and trying not to run off the road.  But a little Google searching showed me that this is an actual, real, underground thing that people are doing.  "Crackheads Gone Wild."  

First of all… WHAT??!!?

Second of all… Way to go SC, getting on the "Crackheads Gone Wild" map.  Movin’ on up! 

Third of all… how much do you think it’s going to up the hits to this blog, now that I have said "Crackheads Gone Wild" four times? 

Not on the Test

Remember when you were in school, and you got to study theatre and art and music and stuff?  Remember how totally useless all that artsy-fartsy crap is?  Well, this morning Miss Traysie sent on Tom Chapin’s love letter to teaching to the test.  Enjoy!

 

And then… call legislators and teachers and everyone you know to remind them that those silly artsy-fartsy things are what make us human! 

I’ll post something more trivial and less socially responsible later… I promise. 

Stereotypes ‘R Us

Today a coworker of mine brought up an article in a new magazine he had discovered:

That is correct.  GARDEN & GUN magazine.  Even scarier is the subline:

21st Century Southern America

Apparently that sums up the South.  Gardens and Guns.  Why not just call it Little Old Ladies and Rednecks? 

{sigh} 

There is a Cure!

An email from Jared today.  This drug might actually cause The Distracted Globe to cease to exist!  Make sure to click on it to get the full effect.