Happy 75th Birthday, MVHS Drama Club!

Thursday, September 17, 2009, is the birthday of the Mount Vernon High School Thespian Society, which was founded in 1934.  Pretty exciting, huh?  We're having a party, so hopefully someone will show up.

All In the Weekend

This font they call Courier resembles the old typewriter fonts from days of yore, which is appropriate for this blog entry on this weekend's performances of All In The Timing, a six-play celebration of the works of David Ives. Times and dates are as follows:

Thursday at 2:30 PM

Friday & Saturday at 7:30 PM

Sunday at 2:00 PM

The typewriter part you'll have to figure out for yourself when you come to the show!  

What's That?

You're wondering whatever became of this blog?

Here it is:

I am currently directing a portion of the upcoming Skagit Valley College Drama Production, "All In The Timing," featuring six short plays written by Sir David Ives.

The production features such illustrious actors as Mason Eger, Nathan Hamer, Travis Confer and Stephanie Brisky.

Performances will be on May 27, 29 & 30 at 7:30 PM; on May 28 @ 2:30 PM; and on May 31 @ 2:00 PM. There will be posters about, so check them out.

They won't look like that picture up there.

All is Well

The opening weekend of Snoopy!!! went quite well, particularly Friday evening, when we were joined by many alumni, all of whom laughed and cheered appropriately.  It's a good show.  I hope all three of you, my readers, make it out to see it.  That is all.

Leatherheads, Furschlugginer, Lincoln's Birthday

Watched a fine film this evening on my brand new Samsung LCD television set.  The movie was titled Leatherheads and featured Mr. George Clooney, Ms. Renee Zellweger, and Sir Jonathyn Price, not to mention young Lord John Krasinski.  It's a cinematic ode to the bygone era of the 1920's, as well as a comedic football story.  I liked it.  The new TV is nice, too, even if it's only 22" measured diagonally.  Big enough for me, thank you very much.  I hear those 33 inch screens give you head cancer.  Cancer of the head!!

The cats are awake and making all kinds of noise.  But that's OK because tomorrow is Mr. Lincoln's birthday, so there's no school.  Did you know that old Honest Abe was born on the exact same day as Mister Charles Darwin?  Which one do you think would have been more fun to eat chips and salsa and watch football with?  Which one would you have do your taxes?  These are hypothetical questions of course.

Furshlugginer was a swear word in the old Mad Magazine, back when you couldn't actually use swear words in public.  I remember I used to use the word "furshlugginer" when I was really mad but didn't want to say a bad word.  The most notable occasion I recall using it was when the pigs I was raising for 4-H knocked my prized AM/FM/Shortwave radio off the fencepost and into the mud, ruining it forever.  I've never had another radio I liked nearly as well as that one.  Radio used to be something you listened to back then.  Now it's mostly a topic of conversation, i.e. "Remember when radio used to be worth listening to?"  "No."  "Oh, sorry."

Enjoy your day off and keep those cards and letters coming, kids! 

83 Views

It appears this blog has no impact whatsoever on the internets.  In spite of my attempt to create a viral video in my last post, the woefully underappreciated "1984 - What Really Happened" has only 83 total views.  I'm not completely sure about this, but I would be willing to wager that there are videos of 7 year old children taking off their socks that have ten times that many views. You've failed me, blogosphere, and for that, you shall be sorry.

Not really, I just wanted to sound kinda dramatic.  But I will say that if that "blogosphere" video gets more views than "1984," I will cry.