first of all, i wrote a while ago about how randy finally got a new computer after his was hit by lightning and now he’s online a lot but he was dismayed when he googled himself and there were NO LISTINGS at all. so i’m just testing this to see if I write out his full name, Randy Dunham, that he will make it to Google and will no longer complain about the great injustice of being google-less. Randy Dunham Randy Dunham Randy Dunham.
Kynda is a woman who takes lovely photos and i have a link to her site over there on the right side of the screen, and last night i actually met her in person at my show, which was neat.
the show last night was FANTASTIC, because the audience was SPECTACULAR as well as TERRIFIC, plus there were quite a few of them. 152 to be exact, which is the biggest crowd we’ve had. this isn’t huge, but it’s gratifying that it was more than last week. they laughed a LOT, more times than they ever have, and they applauded a lot and it was really fun and i HOPE you make it to the show because there are only TWO MORE PERFORMANCES, tonight at eight and tomorrow at two. Hoogland Center for the Arts.
my friend ann (ANN BOVA) saw the show last night and afterwards she told me that she laughed so much that she washed all her makeup off. Patrick (PATRICK RUSSELL) said a friend of his laughed so much that her stomach hurt. i don’t know his friend’s name, except he had friends there named Ginger and Tasha and Fifi and Suzette and Luscious Lola and Trixie and he claims they’re not strippers or even exotic dancers and so i believe him even though i did see some audience members wearing even less clothes than me.
we have quite a few tickets pre-sold for tonight and hopefully this NIGHTMARISHLY COLD weather won’t deter others from coming out to see it.
i had to go outside a couple of times today and this morning my car didn’t particularly want to start and i couldn’t figure out why but of course it’s because it was ZERO when i went out.
yeah. zero.
damn.
damnitall.
up there in the title i also mention JOSHUA RATZ, and this is because he’s (allegedly) going to be coming to the show tonight, because his brother MATT RATZ is in the show along with matt’s fiancee BRIDGET O’BRIEN. i have been accused on more than one occasion of having a crush on joshua ratz, but that’s not really true. i DID see him two and a half times in “jekyll & hyde” at the theater center (performing on the very same stage where i’ve been lately) and he was really brilliant in the role and i don’t know when i’ve seen a finer performance.
but it’s not like i want to MARRY him or anything. he just happens to be very talented, that’s all. in real life he’s probably a scurrilous scoundrel and an impudent villian. because most men are when you really get to know them.
last night the cast party at linda’s was fun. except for the lack of meat. by the time the show was over i was ravenous for a change and wanted a juicy cheeseburger. i realized nobody would bring cheeseburgers to the party, but i was really hoping for something more substantial than the cookies, vegetables and chips that were offered. finally, FINALLY troy (TROY THOMAS PFAFFEE) showed up with his lovely wife Shirene (SHIRENE THOMAS) and an electric skillet full of bite-sized fried chicken pieces which were pretty darn delicious, especially covered with a little cheese sauce which luckily somebody else had brought. not cheeseburgers, but it helped satisfy my meat craving.
i don’t know how amy and jim manage to be vegetarians each and every day, day in and day out, year after year. i don’t eat lots of meat, but occasionally it’s really necessary.
anyway, besides the food, the party was fun. this guy named John who does our sound and i feel bad that i don’t even know his last name but i do feel good that at least i know his first name because generally i can’t even manage that with people unless i really focus on remembering it, but john closely pays attention when i smack my head against the window and then fall over the couch. he gives me honest criticism of the fall and he agreed with me that last night was the WORST EVER. other people don’t notice so much, but last night i don’t think i got very close to the window and then i ran in and stopped and then said my line and then just sort of dove over the couch and it was very VERY lame. i promised him that tonight would be really good, but i hope he doesn’t have his hopes up too much.
tonight i’m anticipating the ITALIAN BEEF that jim (JIM HEPWORTH) will be serving at his cast party. i’m making some french bread to take to the party and actually i should stop writing here because it’s been rising for a very long time and i’m sure i need to punch it down again.
i stayed up rather late last night, not entirely certain when i went to sleep, all i know is that i decided to nap about an hour and a half ago and just got up. and i could have slept a little more.
but instead i’m going to punch down the bread and then maybe i’ll have some caffeine.
as you can see, i’m having a dramatically fascinating saturday.
the next two saturdays i have to give massages which i usually don’t do but the people were all in desperate need and i might as well do it. so i’ll have to get up early SIX DAYS IN A ROW starting on monday. ok, yeah, i don’t really have to get up that early on any given day, but the thought of not having to get up at any specific time is always appealing to me. LAzY, i can’t help it. and don’t particularly want to.
randy was delighted today to realize that he doesn’t have to work monday, because then he gets to watch martha stewart because her show is going to be about springfield, and she took a friend to the presidential museum. hmm, if that’s true why didn’t we hear about her being here? maybe we did but i missed it. i’ve been known to do that, miss big HUGE IMPORTANT news stories like that.
like missing most of the olympics. i did see some of the mens figure skating the other night and i have to say that yeah, they’re very very gay, but even more than that some of them actually looked like women, but their costumes were all SO HORRIBLE. flouncy and ruffly and one guy’s jacket was tiger striped i think, orange and black in the back and black and white in the front with blue sequined sleeves and are these guys BLIND? they all seemed to do a lot of falling down, too.
last night matt ratz acted like i’ve been living under a rock or something because i just noticed the uber-gay poorly dressed figure skaters. i haven’t been living under a rock. i swear.
whew. no time for another nap now. must punch down bread…
ok then,
chilly grace.