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Day 76: what the beginning of romeo and juliet might look like if written by a high school student

April 28, 2009 / / 0 Comments

The Prologue walks out.  He’s dressed different from the other actors.  He wears a robe or toga or something.

PROLOGUE: In the town of Verona, there are two families that don’t like each other.  Anyway, two lovers kill themselves and by doing so, they teach an important lesson to their parents.  And…that’s what this play is about.  If you pay attention, we think you’ll like it!

The Prologue leaves and two petty thugs, Sam and Greg enter.  They’re blinged out.

SAM: I’m not gonna be a gofer!

GREG: No, because then you’d have to live underground.

SAM: Oh, snaaaaaap.

GREG: The only thing I hate more than living underground is that damn Montie Gang!

SAM: Damn straight.  I’d totally mess ‘em up if we came across any of them.

GREG: Well, they ain’t ever seen a gun this big

Greg draws a large revolver and shows it off.

SAM: That’s what she said!

GREG: Oh, snaaaaaaap.  Oh, snap.  Seriously, here come some Monties.

SAM: Let’s flip ‘em off as we go by, see if they take it.

Abe and Caesar enter.  They’re blinged out too, but in a different color.  Like red, instead of black or something.  As they pass, Sam flips them the bird.

ABE: Did you just flip me off?

SAM: I extended my middle finger.

ABE: Did you extend it at me?

GREG: Don’t do it, dude!

SAM: Uh, no.  I am not flipping you off, but I am flipping it.  Just, in general.  For practice.

GREG: You wanna go?

ABE: No, I don’t wanna go.

SAM: ‘Cause if you do, I’ll all about it.  I’m as good for it as you are.

ABE: Not better?

GREG: Dude, say better!  Our gang leader is coming!

SAM: Yeah, better!

ABE: You lying mofo!

GREG: Bring it on!

They start to draw their guns and run behind cover.  Oh yeah – there should be cover here.  Some benches or bus stops or something.  Ben enters.

BEN: Hey guys, what’s going on – Oh, snaaaaaap.

Day 45: a day with malvolio

March 28, 2009 / / 0 Comments

We spent the day in the city today with my high school friend Dan, who played Malvolio senior year in our school’s production of Twelfth Night, and a friend of his.  Malvolio didn’t really come up at all, but I thought I’d give you some point of reference, and that felt as good as any.

Katie and I took BART into the city, whereupon we discovered that there was a Greek Independence Day parade going on down Market street.  We even saw a boy on a tiny horse!  That may or may not be Greek, but it is undoubtedly cute.  Here’s a mediocre picture I took with my phone:

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We met Dan and friend a bit after lunch at the Cartoon Art Museum, a small but fun little place with a bunch of comic and cartoon images throughout the ages on the walls of the six or so rooms they had.  There was an exhibit about Usagi Yojimbo, a cartoon samurai rabbit drawn by Steve Sakai.  Here’s a picture of Steve Sakai I found on the internet:

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There was also a bunch of Watchmen stuff.  I found the recreated props the most interesting.  I haven’t yet seen the movie, so it was nice imagining that someone had just meticulously recreated items from the graphic novel for kicks.  Or attempting to believe that we lived in their universe and that these were donated or confiscated items from the actual masked heroes.

Afterwards, we drove around the city for a bit and headed over to Absinthe for dinner, where we ate some delicious cheese and saw Jamie Lauren, who was on a season of Top Chef that we hadn’t watched.  She’s the executive chef for Absinthe.  Here’s a picture of Jamie I found on the internet:

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Then, we got shakes at In’n’Out and parted ways.  There’s actually a picture of Dan playing Malvolio in our senior yearbook, but I’m too lazy to dig it out and scan it, so here’s a picture of him I found on the Internet:

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He’s the guy, as Dan is not short for Danielle or Dantooine or some hippie girl name.  This was also taken almost a decade ago, when we all looked like, well, high school students.

Day 18: lazy sunday

March 1, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Woke up in the almost afternoon.  Went to Arby’s for lunch.  Been cleaning the house and checking my work email and bugs since then.

Arby’s now serves “Roast Burgers” which is weird.  They’re essentially the same roast beef sandwiches they’ve always had but on a different bun and served with lettuce, tomato, and sometimes bacon.

I think cleaning a pile of old stuff always takes longer than it should because you find things that you don’t expect and spend a few moments reminiscing on each found object.  Even with only 26 years of life behind me, there’s already a lot of history on the floor of our study.

For example, here’s a random old picture that I took of Shady Side Academy (where I went to high school) back from when I was but a teenager.  It’s not a great camera and I think that’s my finger blocking the lower-left corner, but still.

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I’m not sure what I was thinking when I took this picture.  I was probably attempting to capture the serene snowy landscape and a piece of SSA history.  I’d guess it was probably taken senior year.

Snow wasn’t uncommon in Pittsburgh, so this isn’t too extraordinary.  Except that the same picture now wouldn’t be the same.  A new performing arts center has been built in the middle of the hill and a new path has been put across the quad.  So, that picture above could never be taken again.  And, of course, there are students in it that have long graduated.

Something else we came across: the Kudos Award we got right before I proposed to Katie.  Notice that Theresa put a cute paw sticker on the bottom corner.

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Time is relentless.  I wonder what new Kudos awards S’n’S has instituted and whether they’ve dropped any of the old ones.  I doubt they’re still using the web app I wrote for Kudos proposing and voting.

There are also a few props I swiped from various S’n’S produtions, which one of the best morally ambiguous things I’ve ever done.  Any people still in S’n’S reading this: take a small piece of a production you’re in.  It’ll be the best way to keep a memory of the shows that mean that most to you after you graduate.  I was told that by Hunter Howe, and I wish I had begun to do it earlier.

To finish off, here’s a young Katie with some friends.  And a blue man.

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