meara: the game show is called Merv Griffin's Crosswords and it starts out with two people filling in crossword clues (you say the answer, then spell it as it appears on the board), then three more people come in and try to "spoil" the two in front by answering clues the front two have missed. If you successfully spoil you take over one of the two front podiums. If you are at one of the front two podiums when time runs out, with the most money, you win! Then there's a bonus round where you try to fill in the rest of the puzzle in 90 seconds.

Omnis: most of the cats I have known were not allowed in the lease. Sure you could lose your security deposit but: kitty!

eta: my coworker changing story. At the carriage barn we had a shared dressing room. One time someone asked me to get a message to another driver who was up there changing. She was a czech expat and oh so curvy and sweet. She was wearing a red bra when I came in the room and I didn't even notice I was staring at it but she did as she started to wiggle and squirm for my amusement. Ahh I miss those perverted people.

I just got an e-mail from an experimental theatre near me. Does anyone think Faulkner's As I Lay Dying performed by puppets is a good idea?

Ginger, that has to be a joke. Right?

It's real [link]

eta: I've been to quite a few shows at Push Push and most have been pretty good. I just can't quite fathom the brain that thought it would be a good idea to base a puppet show on a book told from multiple stream of consciousness points of view about people with the IQ of dirt.

Does anyone think Faulkner's As I Lay Dying performed by puppets is a good idea?

God help me, I think it's an awesome idea. The only way it could be better is doing it in 30 seconds performed by bunnies, or possibly Weebl and Bob; or maybe the entire Faulkner canon as done by the Reduced Shakespeare Co. But I'm one sick twist, so don't listen to me.

OMG. That sounds like it would at least be as good as Sock Puppet Showgirls. Which was really good.

Ha! I worked with electrical engineers for years and most were a completely clueless lot who didn't know how to find files if they weren't in "My Recent Documents" and who put hard returns at the end of every line.

That link Tom Scola posted? That's where I work. Except I'm in the New Jersey office. Bet they don't have those kind of problems, huh? I'll take that bet.

I just got an e-mail from an experimental theatre near me. Does anyone think Faulkner's As I Lay Dying performed by puppets is a good idea?

Could be interesting. That's a very difficult book to adapt, and a very difficult play to do well. I've designed a production of it and we had an amazing director who pulled it off, but it was a ton of work. I'm not sure about puppets. If done well I guess it could work. We had shadow puppets for certain sections of our production.

Just to be an asshole...

Thanks for all the baseball~ma y'all sent the Yankees way. They just finished a 3-day sweeping of the Bo-Sox today. And I think just scootched into 1st for the Wild Card AL. Keep your fingers crossed, they need all the help you can give them this season.

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Faulkner? puppets? (boggles)

Although I once saw a punk production of The White Devil (it was bad).