Cooper: Diane, last night I dreamed I was eating a large, tasteless gumdrop, and awoke to discover I was chewing on one of my foam disposable earplugs. Perhaps I should consider moderating my nighttime coffee consumption.
-- "Twin Peaks"

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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Willy Wonka Musical

This should show my true colors as far as how much I enjoy performing. Maybe test my limits. I'm Mr. Salt in the musical version of "Willy Wonka" running from June 5th to June 22nd. That's 15 performances.  Is that a lot for a community theater? It is in my experience. The most performances of a show I've been in was 9.  And that's only happened with 5 shows -- out of the 41 I've been in before "Willy Wonka".  In fact, more than 5 is pretty rare.  Here's how many shows I've been in broken down by number of performances.

Number of performancesHow many shows had that many performances
95
82
72
63
513
48
38

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Reading in 2013

It didn't take much ciphering to come up with this year's list. In my defense, time does fly like an arrow. The full list of what I read in 2013:


+----------------------------------------+-----------------------------+---------------+----------+
| title                                  | Authors                     | yearpublished | Finished |
+----------------------------------------+-----------------------------+---------------+----------+
| Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The | Philip K. Dick              |          1965 | 2/2013   |
+----------------------------------------+-----------------------------+---------------+----------+

I gave it 4 stars on Goodreads.  I'm not sure what the title means.  It's disturbing how quickly things pass from my memory -- but I don't think better (total?) recall would help with that title. However, I don't think it had much to do with the story, which was about people escaping their dreadful future life through a socially acceptable escapist drug.