I am so lame. I was Featured User again over at Red vs Blue and I missed it completely.

OK instead of laying out the Belushi monologue of “Its not my Fault”, I will tell you I have been busier than a one legged man at a soccer match (wow! how sensitive is that?!).

I have been building a theater set for a play called “Die, Mommie, Die” by Charles Busch at Silver Spring Stage. Its a fairly simple set except for 2 things:

1) The main focal point of the play is a set of stairs the the main character likes to be ‘Dramatic’ upon (ala Scarlet O’Hara or any of the long grand stair entrances). Nice idea. Now imagine trying to build a stair case in a theater that has a ceiling of 8 and one half feet. Not so much a stair CASE and a stair…singular. I have worked it out to make a curved set of 3 stairs. I told the Director he wasn’t allowed to cast anyone 6′ 6″…So he cast 2 people…one 6’5″ and the other 6’4″ I told him I would not pay for band aids from all the bumped heads.

2) Building a set requires a certain need to actually be able to get to the stage to build the damn thing. That was next too impossible with the blizzard convergence we had a few weeks ago here in Washington DC. Oh the laughter we had…

I say laughter, but it was much more like that scene with Jack Nicholson in “The Shining”. The fact that I was carrying an axe, and I did say “Here’s JOHNNY!” did not reinforce that. Everyone else in the metro area was in full on stir crazy mode!

But we are almost caught up, I need to lay out some carpet and fix a door or 2 and the construction part is done.

Speaking of Crazy, here is my opinion of snow at the moment:

I say crazy also because this weekend “The Crazies” opens. It is a reinterpretation of the George Romero ’70′s film. I don’t know anything much about the film…except that IF there is a flamethrower in the movie…it is the same one as I have pictured. Its funny when you sit around a Christmas party and someone says “what I really need is to find someone with a flamethrower…” and its even funnier to actually have a picture of one on your blackberry and be able to say “You mean like this!” So yes I introduced the special effect guy from the movie to an acquaintance that happens to have a flamethrower.

I might want to see the whole original before seeing the new one…but then again I might never get the time.

peace and napalm grease