It's Monday!

Spent the majority of last week out in Western Mass with Lara and her parents. It's nice to get out there admist the trees and vistas. The trip up was eventful, since Godsteve came with us in his cat carrier and, we soon discovered, could not "hold it" as long as we needed him to. After a washing of his carrier, blanket, mat, and my pants, and things were back to normal. Remind us to perform our interpretation of "Godsteve tries to show his disapproval at being cleaned and eat a handful of treats at the same time" for you.

We also discovered a magic stick, found out my favorite coffee placed had burned to the ground,  took a not-quite hairpin turn, went to the chocolate Mecca (Chocolate Springs Cafe) , and I managed to plow through all the Batman comic compilations Lara's uncle had left there ("The Long Halloween" is awesome). 

We hit a used record store called Turn It Up and came up with some great finds, including Chris Jericho's "Fozzy" CD, a VHS of Weird Al videos, "Monster Squad", "Karate Kid II" and  "Evil Dead II"on DVD. Lara also found a The WHo live DVD, and a good deal on "The History of the WWE Championship", which has matches from Bruno Sammartino and Killer Kowalski (which Lara's dad much appreciated) up through Hulk Hogan and John Cena.

We returned home Thursday and spent the next two days reorganizing ourselves. Saturday, it was off to Taunton for the fight festivities at M & V's place. Since we just wrapped a show with swords, crowbars and claws, Lara and I decided to just have some fun and bust out our lightsabers for the occassion. Lara's double-bladed lightsaber may be one of the most difficult weapons there is to fight with, but we came up with a fubn 3 phrase bit that maybe we should film and youtube ;-) It was great to see folks again, especially a surprise cameo from the USMC's finest! 

Right afterwards, we drove to Raynham to visit my grandmother for a nice chicken dinner and pleasant conversation :-) Sunday i had planned to have dinner with my mother, but somehow that didn't work out and we'll be raincheckin' for Friday. Instead, Lara and I blasted across the cosmos for Star Wars Battlefront 2 fun. We killed a lot of Ewoks and Gunguns. Then, we hit the supermarket and picked up all the necessary items for nachos and tacos, then proceeded to make said items and consume them with gusto. :-)

Today, we are about to put together my new desk! :-)

4/25: Tonight's performance of "Demonslayers" has been cancelled. 

If you were planning to purchase tickets for tonight's show and would like to reserve tickets for Saturday's show, please contact the box office at 978-281-0680.

Thank you!

 

Come on down to the West End Theater in Gloucester, MA for a night of fun, fists and fangs!!! www.thewestendtheater.com

 Hey everybody everybody!

My hotmail account is pretty much kaput at this point, so if you need to (or want or care to) get in touch with me, you can send an email to me via: dminkle at gmail dot com

Happy Birthday to captain_quint!

Looking for Action, Excitement and Fun this April?

Then you'd better make sure and plan for...

DEMONSLAYERS 

That's right, it's coming back! With all new surprises and laughs!!! 'Demonslayers' is headed to the WEST END THEATER in GLOUCESTER, MA for five performaces!

Friday , April 18 at 8pm
Saturday, April 19 at 8pm
Sunday, April 20  at 2pm
Friday, April 25  at 8pm 
and
Saturday, April 26 at 8pm

Tickets are just $12 and a portion of ticket sales will go to charity!

Synopsis: Ryan Cross is a professional vampire hunter who has yet to meet her match.... but now, Ryan finds herself the only thing that stands between a young girl and an evil vampire lord searching for the key to ultimate power!  'Demonslayers' is a sci-fi action/comedy that will please fans of vampire action films and TV shows, and anyone else who enjoys exciting fight scenes, stories of intrigue and betrayal and lots of laughs!!!!

If you haven't seen this show before, get ready for a night of excitement and fun!!!!
If you saw it last time around, you won't want to miss the new surprises and action!!!

go to the West End Theater website for more info!

Cast includes: Rob Borkowski, Mauro Canepa, Lincoln Centeio, Apolonia Davalos, Laura DeCesare, Nellie Farrington, Hannah Husband, Lara Jay, Travis Joyce, Will Keary, TJ Lamanna, Andrew Lebrun, Dan Minkle, Wendy O'Byrne, Whitney Owens and Alexandra Retjos

Happy birthday empheliath!!!

This post serves only to note that I feel pretty silly having "Brain Sister" by Limozeen stuck in my head.

If you don't know why that's silly, I don't know if I have enough time to explain... ;-)

"She was only twenty-seven-teen!"

The Rules
1. Leave me a casual comment of no particular significance, like a lyric to your current favorite song, or your favorite kind of sandwich, maybe your favorite game. Any remark, meaningless or not.
2. I will respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in your own post.
5. When others respond with a desultory comment, you will ask them five questions.

1) For real, you live in the Star Wars universe. They've found that you are Force sensitive. Everything about our lives is roughly the same, you are approached by a Jedi and a Sith and must choose: Light side or Dark side?
- You’d think this would be an obvious choice for me! But, an important part here is that the Jedi forbid you to be in love or have any family attachments. I couldn’t accept that. They’d also probably try and stop me from teaching it to you, which I would totally do. At the same time, I don’t think I could use those powers for personal gain without feeling like a terrible person. So, I guess the choice would be up to them; let me live my life as I see fit and I’d make a nice Jedi, but try to tell me what to do and face the full power of the Dark Side!!!

2) You are allowed to change one thing about yourself, physical, mental, whatever. Nothing meta-human, but what do you change?
- I would definitely do something about my memory and awareness. The reasons for which you certainly know!

3) Quantum Leap. Sam jumps into your body to make right something that went wrong. No negative repercussions. What is it?
- I think Sam would go back to my early twenties and try to get me and my dad to actually talk about the things that bothered us. I still can’t help but feel that the way we always approached our relationship made it hard to come out and say how we felt. It means we never fought, true, but it also means we didn’t ever really connect, either, and now it’s too late for that.

4) You are given one day, with all the money you could ever want to spend doing whatever. Figure that travel is immediate, you are wherever you want to be instantly, and the day begins there. However, it is only one day. How do you spend it?
- Well, the first thing that comes to mind is a one-day-whirlwind tour of all the world’s greatest sights. However, places like the Pyramids and Paris and Rome and anywhere else I want to see; I would want to spend days exploring and enjoying. Jumping from place to place would feel like a waste. So, instead, I would zap us both to Key West and spend a whole day living in filthy disgustingly rich luxury and enjoying the tropics. That way, we get an awesome memory to keep for years to come as opposed to snapshots that feel like they didn’t happen. 

5) You can own one fantasy weapon, from any Sci Fi or Fantasy movie/book/comic/TV show, whatever. What is it?
- Any fantasy weapon? *evil grin* The Death Star! Can you imagine owning that thing? We could cruise the cosmos! Bring the galaxy to its knees! Heh, ok, maybe not. I can’t even conceive of how much it would cost to gas that thing up. At $3.00 a gallon, we’d be in to poor house real quick and end up having to sell it to Richard Branson.
So, on the cheaper side, I would say a lightsaber. It really is the ultimate comfort weapon. If you have that little cylinder on your belt, you know you are safe from everything that might want to hurt you. Just need to learn how to use it properly so as to avoid embarrassing dismemberment.

Whew!
Ok, so once again a whirlwind of activity passes I post absolutely nil Let’s see how much of the past few weeks I can remember…
On 1/26 Lara and I went to the "flashing steel" stage combat workshop Cliff and Rob put together. Lara and I worked together for the broadsword fight, then I crossed sword with ronsonbeck for the first time in a long time (just remembered, mike, we did rapier/dagger together at the seminars a few years ago!) then boarded a bus out to NYC to meet actingsuz, who we would be staying with for the weekend. Got to hang out with her and her guy and have dinner at a nice Thai place (the name of which I have forgotten). Our breakfast plans with pjainey ran into trouble :-( , so Suz and John brought us to a place (whose name I have also forgotten) with some tasty French bread and spreads… but sadly, none of their famed French donuts.
Then, met up with Lara’s family who were, by coincidence, also in the NY area. We stopped off at the Virgin store in Union Square and picked up a bunch of DVDs and CDs that were mega on-sale. We had some tasty smoothies and then packed off to the movie theatre to see "Cloverfield". Very cool to see this film in NY, since we stepped out of the theatre directly onto one of the streets the movie was filmed on. Then, on to our MSG adventure for the Royal Rumble! We hit TGIFriday for dinner (since it was right across the street). This place was full of WWE fans, so it was a good choice. Also, fortunately, the Rumble was so much fun that I wrote a post about it and forgot to actually post it. ( Royal Rumble! )

Then, as often happens, the bad comes with the good. Monday morning we made our way back home on the bus and hurried into work for a half-day. At home that night, Lara suffered an allergic reaction and we rushed to the ER. It was not an easy night, but she had a good doctor (who looked eerily like Ethan from "Lost") and was released that night. The poor girl has really just had enough of terrible medical situations! She's been stuck at home the past two weeks, but a visit to her favorite PCP lifted her spirits and her new medicine is definitely helping; so hopefully she'll be back to normal in no time!
This weekend we headed out to Western Mass to celebrate a family multi-birthday party at Lara's grandparent's house. It was a nice time with lots of snow, cake and cute dogs :-)

Tonight, it's another round of "Demonslayers" auditions. To any of you who are interested in perfoming in the show; it's not too late to be considered for one of the roles we have left! Right now we need people with stage combat experience for vampire-y fun and fighting. Let me know if you have any questions, and don't be shy! You can't come out and play if you don't raise your hand! :-)

Mark your calendars! "Demonslayers" goes up April 18, 19, 20, 25 and 26 at the West End Theater in Gloucester, MA!