Faire, non-faire and the in between.

So, I only have a little time to write up the entry that should have gone up on Monday. Forgive any lacking that you may, therefore, perceive. I encourage you to supplement my account with your own additions.

The weekend was a cavalcade of awesome. That is, if you except the rain related injuries which marred the whole weekend. Amie from the fight cast and Jeremy from KK both managed to damage themselves in the early hours of Saturday. Jeremy slipped on the KK stage and managed to hurt a tendon in his lag which is bad. Compared to Amie though he got off easy. There are a few things that one tries to avoid in the average life. leaping unsupported from a great height without some kind of mat below is one of those actions. Unfortunately, due to the rain, the ropes used for the rope stunts were very wet so when stunt call began and Amie leaped from the balcony of the Cheshire Chase her descent was unexpectedly quick. Usually the friction of the rope would slow her descent and allow her to gracefully arrive on the stage. instead she simply fell holding onto a useless rope and arrived on the stage with no way for the spotters to save her.

Therefore, what was otherwise a great weekend was a bit darkened by concern for damaged friends.

The show has gotten tighter and tighter with every run. What was once a 23 minute production is now about 15 minutes long. The fight scenes are really sticking and the flow of the lines has been corrected now that I've picked up my, usually languorous, pace. I cannot say enough how much I love working with Angela and Char on this production. There was also a wonderful experience for both Angela and myself last weekend as children redeemed themselves by being both adorable and complimentary. A little boy told me how much he enjoyed the performance and then went on to tell me how I must be a great baker. After the final show of the weekend Angela was called back onto the stage where an adoring mass waited for her with flowers from the verge of the stage and compliments. The best among them being "you're pretty". I don't like kids, but I'm coming to the conclusion I like entertaining them.

Bernard had a great weekend as well. Though I need to work on getting out on the street more I did get to have a bunch of fun with Bernard. Among the usual Bernardisms (prostration upon the street, looking for goats and telling women they are pretty) were a slow motion chase with Molly O'Reilly, a run in with a drunk patron woman's bum and, to top it all off, he found Geraldine. I managed to borrow a goat from the petting zoo (surprisingly easy, actually) and for about an hour and a half in the late hours of Sunday I had a Geraldine to carry about and present to the Queen. Geraldine, as it happens, is a young goat of a few months, still nursing and, despite my descriptions up to now, black and white. She is also the cutest thing on four legs. Her real name is Nala and she was the perfect accent to Bernard's character. I got to walk around being pleased about my goat and everyone flocked around to see her and pet her. Good times.

As for non-faire activities; yesterday I held the first session of my D&D game which went well and tonight I'm going to watch the final performance of Neil Arsenty's show at second city, "Big City, Small World".

I also recently had the pleasure of viewing "Death at a Funeral" which was a riot. Absolutely amazing performances all around and unpredictably outlandish at all points. The compounding series of events is cringeworthy and awkward but also fully hilarious.

The tip top of the non faire activities has to be my recent excursion to Medieval Times with Shane and Derrick to see Carrie who is a wench there. I refuse to comment on the lack of historical accuracy which rode rampant over the joust pitch. History was not the point. It was a fun show to watch full of well done fights and dramatic music. I've never seen so many sword sparks in one evening, what's more the actually very talented combatants seem to have performed tirelessly throughout the night. Kudos to them. I did enjoy that there is no silverware at Medieval Times, there is, however, Pepsi. This was followed by one of the most amusing car rides I have ever taken part in. Thank you Carrie. We did not die but we definitely should have.

Today's Gem of the internet- Watch it before it goes away. Here is Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog. Acts one and two are out now. Three comes out this weekend and they all disappear on Sunday. so you have a narrow window to catch them.

http://drhorrible.com/

you can also buy them on iTunes. Like I did. Sigh. That's right. Mr. Whedon finally forced my hand. I had to have it and the only way to get it was to incline my head slightly to the evil of Apple. You win this round Mr. Jobs. I'll just put it on my...iPod.

I'm disappointed in me. Apple is creeping in on me. Next I'll have a Macbook Air and an iPhone. items I hate with all of my self.