http://nebunele.com/blog News about me that is of little interest to anyone except friends, family, and the occasional stalker Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:33:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I think that I am going sane or maybe going in Someone please tell me to go to bed now I made some cookies today All the cocky young internet comics stormed my world again tonight Like Pandora's box, I gotta close this machine again before hope slips out http://nebunele.com/blog/2008/06/19/oh-good-lord/ Thanks, Miryam Gordon, for our friendliest Seattle review! http://www.sgn.org/sgnnews36_20/page25.cfm -A http://nebunele.com/blog/2008/05/20/but-seattle-gay-news-liked-it/ Wow, so many posts all at once this week! Thanks, faithful readers, for weathering this deluge. But craziness! David Edwards, our actor who played Creon, let us know this morning that for health reasons he isn't able to perform in the show this weekend. Yikes! Fortunately, our wonderful Creon from ... http://nebunele.com/blog/2008/05/16/if-its-not-one-thing/ Well. So our most-reviewed-ever show's reviews are mostly out: to near-universal pans. Charles Mudede of The Stranger says: "The writers went wrong in the final act—it has the heaviness of revealing a final and amazing truth, but its truth is not heavy or staggering. We already know that life in ... http://nebunele.com/blog/2008/05/15/ouch/ Communication It struck me driving over the bridge toward home— the lights of the city! The dark water! Oh, how the clouds reflected all the hazy light pollution, made me feel small and adventurous and alone, and like if I spoke to the city itself, it might reply. I turned to my new love in the passenger’s ... http://nebunele.com/blog/2008/05/14/something-im-working-on/ I’d like to take a moment right here and talk about how freaking amazing my mother is. If you know her, you will understand why I say that while of course everybody’s mom is special, I am somebody who has seriously lucked out in the mother department. So, a year ago, ... http://nebunele.com/blog/2008/05/11/on-mothers-day/ Well, it looks like our personal pestering of reviewers has finally paid off! The PI and Seattle Gay News reviewers were in our audience last night, the Stranger is coming tonight, and the Times and the Seattle Weekly are coming on Saturday! 5 papers, holy crap! I've never had five ... http://nebunele.com/blog/2008/05/09/seattle-press-starting-strong/ Michael Rice with the Cool as Hell Theatre podcast interviewed us last week and came up with this lovely little segment: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheCoolAsHellTheatrePodcast He was really cool to talk to, smart, interested in a good story, stoked about theatre. Does anyone in Seattle do something like this? If not, somebody should start! We also ... http://nebunele.com/blog/2008/04/22/more-sf-publicity-2/ Just came home from a great salsa night at Club Cocomo, around the corner from Antoun's, where I'm staying. Everyone was dancing on 2, everyone was phenomenal; the floor was great, never too crowded, the atmosphere fun, the music awesome. I was totally outclassed, but didn't feel ignored. It's late, ... http://nebunele.com/blog/2008/04/21/salsa-sweat/ This is fun--our review made the front page of the SF Chronicle Datebook. Check it out! Our review in the chronicle Love! devilishly, Alissa http://nebunele.com/blog/2008/04/17/our-press-in-sf-rocks/ Madness madness, putting it all together in San Francisco and trying to make the show breathe. Our set is amazing. Our costumes are awesome. Our cast is extraordinary. The sound is making something of nothing. The lights are making our shifts make sense. There are plenty of moments still where ... http://nebunele.com/blog/2008/04/08/update-from-lovely-sf/ Okay YES this is totally ridiculous. But my friend Jana wants, more than anything else in her whole life, to be on TV. She's auditioning online for this reality TV show--who wants to be Paris Hilton's bff? And apparently she's in the top 20 girls for votes, which means she ... http://nebunele.com/blog/2008/03/19/pop-culture/ Mike asked me the other day if I liked horror movies. I mean, I do if they’re good, like anything, but there’s not a part of me that loves to be freaked out and that gets a big kick out of the genre. I love the adrenaline rush of roller ... http://nebunele.com/blog/2008/03/17/nameless/ Hey, photos from our poker fundraiser on leap day are here: http://picasaweb.google.com/foolissa/NebunelePokerNightFeb2908 It was a smashing success. Thank you everybody who helped make it happen, and those who came and made it fun! http://nebunele.com/blog/2008/03/03/poker/ I also went and saw a show with Bret on Thursday night called Hey Girl! It pulsed with all these intense, dreamlike images and expensive electric props, and it was supposed to address issues of the feminine image, I think. It wasn't very good--as Bret pointed out after the show, ... http://nebunele.com/blog/2008/02/06/the-other-thing-i-did-on-thursday/ I had the super-cool opportunity to go to Olympia to hang out in the state capitol on Thursday. There was a bill up for debate in the state House and the Senate about renewing a hotel/motel tax that's been a large source of arts funding in King County for the ... http://nebunele.com/blog/2008/02/06/government/ When I was a kid, my friend Chrissy had a big lemon tree in her back yard. We had all the games about eating them without making faces, etc., down pat, but our favorite thing to do was get a ripe one, cut it into wedges, smother it with sugar, ... http://nebunele.com/blog/2008/01/30/i-decided-to-eat-it/ Today I received a small box in the mail. Its contents were 1) a small lemon wrapped in a paper towel 2) a handwritten note on folded-up arty brown-and-gold paper. It was sent by my friend Juniper, who wrote me a series of engaging and whimsical letters called "Dispatches from the Southland" a ... http://nebunele.com/blog/2008/01/28/when-life-gives-you-lemons/ Ok, so in order to combat the doubts cast on my Nerdliness by my embarrassing Nerd Score, I find it necessary to display some kind of Nerdly credentia. This should do it. View my page on Nerdfighters http://nebunele.com/blog/2008/01/19/nerd-cred/ So much energy into gaining speed down the runway, engines grinding and swearing and panting and hollering, heavy effortful pushing that focuses so much on that drive forward, this heavy bird trying to run fast. And then—a flap drops, light—and we are airborne. Inside, people yawn and do crossword puzzles ... http://nebunele.com/blog/2008/01/16/taking-off/ I am disappointed. It turns out I am only a mid-level nerd. Juniper, where'd you learn to be so nerdy? http://nebunele.com/blog/2008/01/11/my-nerd-score/ Hey look! Pics from the show! http://picasaweb.google.com/foolissa/MedeaKnowsBest200702 Wheeee! http://nebunele.com/blog/2008/01/08/photoz-2/ The Frost poem sat comfortably in the front of my mind this morning as I wandered out into the redwoods at the back of my parents’ property, thinking of the imminent death of my grandfather. The young woods back there are fairy-tale-storybook beautiful, and in the morning sunlight, bejeweled with ... http://nebunele.com/blog/2007/12/30/stopping-by-woods-on-a-sunny-morning/ So my relaxing hometown holiday week got diverted when my grandfather, who has been struggling with cancer for the last little while, took a turn for the urgent-health-situation worse. After I arrived at my parents' house in Humboldt on Christmas Eve, we all boarded a plane early Christmas morning to ... http://nebunele.com/blog/2007/12/27/holidays-mortality/ ...but it sounded so good, and I wanted an excuse to linger at Adam & Lena's new place. I was doing better with getting up at reasonable hours, but here it is 5:18, and I have a brunch date with Sparky at 10, and the amount of sleeping I'm getting ... http://nebunele.com/blog/2007/12/15/i-shouldnt-have-had-that-chai-tonight/