not falling down

Update 0757 hrs: In response to any questions you may have about the show, the answer is “yes.” Whoo.

Three entries in three days is almost unprecedented. Maybe I’m trying to make up for the fact that I’m heading home forthe weekend–again–and when I get back I’ll commence trying hastily to ink this week’s toon. Ah, the jet-setting lifeof an unpaid cartoonist! Ha ha! See you Sunday.

Update 1353 hrs: But before I go, I feel I should mention that my roommate has purchased his very firstprofessional team from Yahoo! Shopping. I mean, with prices like these, who can refuse?

Ian got Richard. I got Hastings. Here’s the thing: it’s going to be a very good play. My glands are telling me to befrustrated, but I’m trying to be clear-headed about it (or anyway I think I am). Tony is a show director, not anactor’s director, and putting Ian in the role will bring out a lot of things that would have required more work withme. I still think that I have the bigger range between us, but Ian’s limits fall squarely on either side of where mostpeople want to see Richard. He’s very strong there, and he’s going to do very, very well with it.

There are other things, too, that I think I can see Tony doing (and that not everyone will). I’m being honest when Isay I have more friends in the department. Ian and I are both decent, friendly guys, but there are kids who think he’sarrogant (I don’t) and wanted me to have the role to keep him out of it. This casting is going to upset them, and thatwill draw out their venom toward him in a very realistic way. Instant Method.

I think I could steal this show; I’m not going to, because while it might be fun the play would lose out. Richard is an(the) antihero. Drawing focus from that would take something from the core of the play. So I’m going to be anensemble player, and I’m going to try to help David (who was also up for Richard, and who got Buckingham) do the same.There is this about performance: in the end we aren’t there for ourselves.

T-minus 9.5 hours.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM! Everybody sing to the world’s saintliest lady today if, for some reason, you see her. I am ofcourse not going to mention how old is, except to say it rhymes with “nifty-two.”

In other news, I got callbacks for Richard III. In “Richard III.” But there is just one problem, inthat I am up against my friend Ian for the role, and Ian has more chops than your average cleaver store. Wish me brokenlegs for tonight.

(Note that the Ian above is not to be confused with the fearsome Evaporator of ARG!, who just happens to be my brother.)

Happy Hallmark Day in advance if I don’t put up an entry tomorrow. After all, I may be too enchanted to do much but gibber.

pacify problems
with kisses and cuddles

Less than a week until Anne makes herpresence known on the Centre campus. It’s an event we’ve been looking forward to all year. Ken stuck a little portraitof Ms. Murray on our markerboard in August, and it’s been saying horrible and profane things daily ever since; now thatthe countdown has begun, she’s taken on positively demonic aspects. It’s only a matter of time until we see her inconcert, and I fully expect some kind of pyrotechnic battle between good and evil when the curtain opens. Ph34r!

Heading home for the weekend. This has disadvantages, such as the fact that I won’t be able to hang out or play videogames; it also has advantages, in that I will miss at least a day and a half of Rush Week. Ah, those crazy fraternityboys!

and if I had a gun
there’d be no tomorrow