Posted By Kathleen David on August 22, 2010
And it didn’t suck as bad as I thought it was going to. Also, unlike other films recently of this ilk, it sticks to skewering the source material with fewer topical references that will fall flat in less than 5 years. You do need at least a rudimentary working knowledge of things Twlight but it is still pretty funny.
I had a nice visit with the in-laws. Caroline had fun with her cousins. Ariel spilt her time between the adults and the kids. We got up to our usual silliness where someone comes up with a funny idea and then it kind of spirals into absolute hilarity that had us holding our sides we were laughing so hard.
Today is split between the creative and the mundane. Things that need to be done to keep hearth and home together and things that I want to do for DragonCon. We slept in a little but then we needed it because we hadn’t been sleep particularly well. So now I have to make up the time I lost in slumber.
I am grateful for fun time with family.
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Posted By Kathleen David on August 21, 2010
Today we are off to Connecticut since both my father-in-law and my mother-in-law and my sister-in-law have birthdays falling within a two week period in August. (Ariel, Peter and I have ours all in September within 3 weeks of each other). So we are going up to celebrate their natal days.
Caroline is excited to see her cousins. It is going to be a day trip because we have a lot coming up in the next two and half weeks including Caroline starting the 2nd grade, Ariel going back to college, Peter going to a convention in New Mexico and also we have DragonCon (not necessarily in that order). Once Peter gets back, he may have to head back out for a project. And then we have MadCon. I don’t think we really slow down until October and maybe not even then. Which is good busy is better than waiting for the next thing to come along.
I finished up one project for DragonCon which I will show pictures of after the convention since it was a commissioned piece that turned out quite well. So now onto the rest of the list.
I am grateful for how the project turned out.
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Posted By Kathleen David on August 17, 2010
I have been stymied in my current project for several reasons including having to order some materials that I thought I had, but I didn’t. That and I have been spending time with my family which we all needed to do. Especially since Summer is almost over for the girls and they will be back in school.
So today I am going onto another project and a set that I can do and do well. By the time I am done with them, I’ll have the missing pieces for the other project and will be getting back to them.
Resetting my noggin so I can go back to the thing that I am feeling uncomfortable with right now is the best way I know to give me a fresh perspective on the whole project.
I know I can do this. I just have to get over the “it has to be perfect” hump and work with what my hands can make from the pictures in my head.
I am grateful for family time.
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Posted By Kathleen David on August 16, 2010
Yesterday we went to the New York Ren Faire in Tudexo New York. We try to go once a year. This year Caroline was wearing a dress we got Ariel many moons ago. She looked like a little lady. She joined Robin Hood’s Merry Band and got a cool bracelet that she worn with great pride (Unfortunately, it was lost on the way home and she is rather sad about it. We searched the car but think that it came off when she was walking across the parking lot.) She had a picnic with the Queen and led a discussion about Dragons: Friend or Foe. She had a grand time.
We had a good time too. We saw some great shows. I highly recommend the aerialists who are set up next to the chessboard and the camel ride (Yes, Caroline did ride a camel and she loved it.) We saw a number of other street performers and the various shows.
The weather was pretty nice with intermittent light rain which either cooled things down or humided them up to a rather sticky day. We were about to leave when we walked by the Pageant Wagon where I saw a sign that the Ded Bob Show was one of the shows available. And at that moment I didn’t care if the skies opened up, I was going to see the Ded Bob Show.
Ded Bob holds his existence to a friend and professional theater jack-of-all-trades Jeffrey Watkins who runs that Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern who encouraged Clark Orwick who created this insane puppet named Ded Bob. This was back in 1986 and Bob was part of a show called “Shakespeare Shorts”. Then Ded Bob took on a “life” of his own and has been seen across the country at various ren faires. I have seen Ded Bob perform a number of times through-out the years and have always enjoyed my encounters with him.
Now there are three dummies who travel with Ded Bob, Smuj (the original dummy), Puj, and Sluj (who is helping him at the New York Ren Faire). So things are a little different but still the same. The phrases that we all know like “Look into my eye sockets” and “You’ve been Bobmitized” along with that famous call and response “Hey Audience!” “Hey What?” The songs and the jokes are familiar with a few new ones sprinkled in. But the voice was a little different. Close to the original but just a little different. Kind of like when a Muppet gets handed off, it sounds pretty much the same but there is something that you can’t put your finger on.
But that didn’t matter to me. It was Ded Bob. I got Bobmotized and I am such a Bob-Zombie. It was fun to hear the jokes again and just join in the silliness.
I am grateful that I got to see the Ded Bob Show again.
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Posted By Kathleen David on August 13, 2010
My opinions about Friday the 13th were formed by the actions of a turtle…
copyright Walt Kelly and estate
I am grateful that I read Pogo when I was a child
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