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(i’m sliding in a little late here as i just made it home.)

so, the last time i was at musical filming (like 2 weeks ago) i had crazy ass nightmares about filming all night long. and in one of them birthday boy figured prominently. the script called for a character to walk away with a twinkle in thier eye. and you, gene, couldn’t figure out how to film this. i was trying desperately to explain the look and the backwards glance over the shoulder with a close up on the face concept to you, but it just wasn’t flying. finally i was like, “we’ll just add a twinkle in po-pro, ok?!”

why we had to have an actual twinkle for a metaphorical “look,” i don’t know.

my point here is that, even though you’re a whole quarter of a century now we can always edit some things out with po-pro. so when you get those wrinkles and grey hairs, have no fear. po-pro will help you if you fall and can’t get up. po pro will be your walker with tennis balls on. po pro will be your pee tube.

happy slightly late birthday!

cirque du soleil fired an acrobat in april of this year for being HIV positive. on thursday, nov 20th (today) there is a community protest going on outside the big top in the pac bell parking lot, current home of the alegria tour.

i went and saw alegria the other day with my free pass. like a get out of jail free card, only the circus. and, i have to say, that the circus does not pass muster. i take back every word of encouragement i have made to go see it. totally not worth the millions of dollars you have to spend on tickets and parking. liggity LAME. well, except for the music. i am a huge fan of the music. it is in my head constantly. i will hate it within another 2 weeks, i am sure. but the circus itself is kind of boring. there’s all this shit with clowns that just goes on much too long. and there’s this whole 10 minutes before the intermission that is a complete waste of space and makes no sense. stupid clowns. some of the acts are really good. like the russian bars, the trapeze artists, and the hula hoop bendy girl. hmm, and the trampoline people. but the juggler i saw kept dropping balls! and there’s just no storyline to follow. and the strong man is dumb. although, yes the fire dancer is both muscle-y goodness in a speedo and talented, the circus as a whole is not as entertaining as it could be.

i think this is because it’s one of the older shows and is suffering from its antiquity. because varekai which i saw last year was AMAZING. and it’s only like 2 or 3 years old, whereas alegria is like 10 years old. liggity old. (ha ha! i just re-read my varekai post. it’s awesome. ah, what a year can do.)

tonight while waiting for the tent to empty of people so i could go home, a boy in green/yellow track pants was experimenting with a hula hoop. velma, xandri, pretty girl whose name i don’t know, and i almost died because he was doing the whole hip-swivel-thrust hula hoop action and the boy had no underwear on! it was scandalous. i laughed so hard. and we all had to kind of turn our backs to him. except velma who just watched outright with no shame. xandri had to leave the tent and was frantically whispering into her walkie talkie in gloating glee.

also, i just realized today that i have to work on thanksgiving! now, sure i don’t eat most thanksgiving foods, and can no longer eat turkey, but still. liggity you know.

the two songs of “getting old…take your clothes off!” and “i am so hot in here, i’m gonna take my clothes off,” are currently getting a little mixed up in my head. but either way i think it’s a message. a message to you jason, to strip down and dirty to your birthday suit best. happy birthday! let’s be naughty! sorry!

so you’re like what? 24 now? i think you’re 24. if you’re not 24, well then….you should be. join the ranks. i mean really. get with the program.

how’s it feel to be potentially 24? good? kind of indiscriminate? 24 is a dumb year, i’ll tell you right now. i don’t have much left to go in mine and so i’m speaking from experience. soon though i’ll be able to rent a car without the pesky service charge, which i can then hold over you who is always renting cars and paying thru the nose.

jason you are a great friend. you always make me laugh and sometimes i get to visit you in jersey. there’s used book stores and family guys and some truly terrible movies. there’s watching you fling mac and cheese into bill’s tuba (TUBA) and watching you eat rice and peanut butter from the jar. there’s listening to you coo at kittens and listening to you expound on middle eastern literature with a map to back you up. we’ve been thru a lot, a lot and i love you. happy birthday!

see the station agent. the station agent is good. gooooood.

kris, i took pictures of ellie’s stomach for you. at one point during the movie she grabbed my hand and put it on her belly and i freaked out. lucky for me the baby didn’t kick at that point because s/he had already stopped. freaky little parasite zygotes.

first night at the circus? fun. lots of standing up, standing around, standing standing, smiling, standing, being asked the prices of things that i sure as hell don’t know the prices of, having to ask nathan to scan things for me to learn the prices, getting shot at with rubberbands by nathan, talking to erin, standing, laughing at dante, standing, 30 minute break!, standing. you get the picture. i worked from 12:30pm to 10:30pm. and except for that half hour break, i stood the whole time. i can tell you right now that all i want to do is work the VIP tent which is heated and has tasty food and rich clientele. i can also tell you that at some point there’s an employee discount day and everything is 40% off. so if you want any hella expensive circus gear, lemme know. also if you get a chance and have money to burn you should def go see the show. and if you come, maybe you will see me standing there!

i’ve kind of missed the boat on getting my act together to see the premiere of matrix revolutions. this makes me sad. i was so excited last time. there was themed underwear and friends to wait in line with. what happened this time around?

recently i re-watched the princess bride. that movie makes me so happy. but at the same time it also brings up a lot of childhood good and bad memories. shona, robi, neela, and i used to pretend to be wesley and buttercup and roll down the hill in front of their house over and and over again. say i was wesley and shona was buttercup. she would push me down the hill and i would scream, “as you wish!” and then she would roll after me. once we both reached the bottom there would be the crawling over and making out section of the event. we did the whole thing where you put the back of your hand against your mouth and then fake kiss with your palms. that shit was hot.

the bad memory i have associated with this movie comes about in relation to the sand traps in the forest. i had this dream after an early watching of the film wherein i was buttercup and i fell thru the sand. the thing was that it took a while for wesley to reach me and in the meantime there were a lot of skulls and bones and really disgusting sand fish in there. every time i go a while between watching this movie i’ll become convinced again that they show buttercup in the sand pit and you see the bones. but then, that never really happens. i still find it really traumatic though and hate to be reminded of it. ugh.

knowing as i do that you have all been terribly nervous and terribly irritated by my lack of job, i wanted to let everyone know that no longer must you curse my name every morning when you get up and work for 8 hours a day! because i got a job!

yes, it is true and i start on wednesday. and i will be working for the circus! circus people!

before you begin calling me a carnie, i would like to clarify that i am not working for just any circus, oh no, but the top tier french canadian cirque du soleil circus. so you should make sure to throw in some aboots when you pronounce “car-nay”.

this is admittedly a job which will only last me thru dec 22. but at this point i don’t care. money money money. circus circus circus.

the show i am working on is alegria. you can read more about the little circus kids going to school in trailers here. ahhhhh! it’s no zumanity, but that’s ok. (why did we never go to that? let’s go!)