the_pirate_show ([info]the_pirate_show) wrote,
@ 2008-05-11 23:22:00
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Bloggy blog blog. Here are some tidbits!

I'm drooling heavily over Nerf toys lately. There may be a ridiculous steampunk six-shooter in my near future... given [info]spike20's wacky steampunked Tommy gun, I have a challenge to meet. What an odd sort of keeping up with the Joneses, yes?

I'm in my third production of Macbeth with Tempest Theatre, in a slightly exciting new role. I'm playing Macbeth's head goon Seaton, who in this production is also the Bloody Sergeant and the Doctor. It's a very dynamic, very violent take on the play, and I think you should come and see. We run from May 12-16 at the Danforth Music Hall, with erratically-timed shows that you're best to check the website for. In any case, if you enjoyed Duel Of Ages at last year's Fringe Festival, I think you'd enjoy this Macbeth.

Extra strange: in order to seem older, meaner, and uglier for Macbeth, I opted to shave my head for the role. I can't stop touching my meaty noggin! It is all weird. I'm looking forward to having hair on the top half of my head again, though feeling the breeze on my naked scalp is kind of nice on these hot summer days.




There's more- there's always more, of course- but I'm damned tired right now and a bottle of port beckons. Here's hoping I can get to using this thing as regularly as I used to, but I always say that.

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[info]rocketbox
2008-05-12 04:10 am UTC (link)
the steampunked tommy gun is my new summer project.

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[info]the_pirate_show
2008-05-12 04:19 am UTC (link)
There are bags of matching-toothed black plastic gears in various sizes for sale at Active Surplus, along with all sorts of other moving parts. As soon as I get a can of that magical Krylon Fusion copper paint, it is ON.

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[info]spike20
2008-05-12 03:46 pm UTC (link)
I can pick you up a can if you're havng probs finding it...

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[info]the_pirate_show
2008-05-13 03:12 am UTC (link)
I have one more place to check out, and then you're on. Ideally, I want to have the Maverick ready for AN.

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[info]mambolica
2008-05-12 04:11 am UTC (link)
MEATY !

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[info]the_pirate_show
2008-05-12 04:20 am UTC (link)
It feels as though someone installed velcro hooks on a pork chop!

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[info]stevetassie
2008-05-12 11:08 am UTC (link)
DId you use shampoo the first time you showered after you shaved it? I did.
Wjen I shaved my head, I had two ferrets. You don't know strange sensations until you awake to the feeling of a ferret licking your scalp.

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[info]mambolica
2008-05-12 08:42 pm UTC (link)
When I had a buzz cut, a friend's cat came and sat behind me on their couch. Weirdest sensation I've ever felt on my head was the cat licking the prickly 'peach fuzz' at the back of my head. I almost levitated it felt so eerie.

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[info]the_pirate_show
2008-05-13 03:13 am UTC (link)
My cat loves my sideburns, but abhors my scalp. It's quite odd.

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[info]amaaanda
2008-05-12 04:22 am UTC (link)
That thar' is a good look for you!

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[info]the_pirate_show
2008-05-13 03:14 am UTC (link)
Arr shucks, I bet you say that to all the pirates.

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[info]say_it_with_pie
2008-05-12 05:02 am UTC (link)
Not unattractive!

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[info]the_pirate_show
2008-05-13 03:15 am UTC (link)
After a lady (to whom I am mightily attracted) repeatedly telling me that it's unfathomably ugly, this is good to hear.

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[info]biokitten
2008-05-13 03:35 am UTC (link)
Aw, remember how I'm an asshole and don't take it too seriously.
Really I think you only look about as bad as I did with my head shaved, which was not too bad. Except I got additional hotness points for being female (or so I like to tell myself.)

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[info]the_pirate_show
2008-05-13 03:48 am UTC (link)
You're not wrong on the issue of relative hotness, but I'll revel in flattery anywhere I can find it.

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[info]biokitten
2008-05-13 03:52 am UTC (link)
I fully endorse reveling in anything possible whenever possible! There is no bad in reveling.

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[info]taluagel
2008-05-12 05:19 am UTC (link)
Heh, I began working on my Sniper Rifle and 6 shooter ages ago but I stopped the project, I should pick i.... OH MY HOLY GOD OF ALL THAT IS BEERFILLED WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO YOUR HEAD!

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[info]the_pirate_show
2008-05-13 03:15 am UTC (link)
The answer, as always, is 'monkeys'.

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[info]stevetassie
2008-05-12 11:26 am UTC (link)
Great, now yo lok like Andy Blau's "Mini-me"

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[info]littlehoudini
2008-05-12 12:13 pm UTC (link)
Yep, I was going to say something like that. [info]gnomic_gnome said, "He looks like a younger Andy!"

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[info]mambolica
2008-05-12 08:43 pm UTC (link)
It's a little disturbing, now that you point that out.

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[info]the_pirate_show
2008-05-13 03:15 am UTC (link)
When I see Andy tomorrow, comedy is certain to ensue.

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[info]littlehoudini
2008-05-12 12:14 pm UTC (link)
Remember, newly-bald-headed one... nothing burns in the summertime like raw scalp. Sunblock (or a hat... which may no longer fit properly) is your friend.

On the flipside, no more bed-head!

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[info]taluagel
2008-05-12 05:37 pm UTC (link)
Your supposed to let him learn these things on his own, the comedy is at stake!

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[info]the_pirate_show
2008-05-13 03:16 am UTC (link)
Lesson already painfully learned. Ow ow ow. Bastards.

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[info]littlehoudini
2008-05-12 12:17 pm UTC (link)
Hey, waitaminute! I just read your post again:

in order to seem older, meaner, and uglier

What're you saying, here?

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[info]mambolica
2008-05-12 08:44 pm UTC (link)
Um, he's saying you're older, mea- Oh.

Nevermind !

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[info]the_pirate_show
2008-05-13 03:23 am UTC (link)
I'm saying that without knowing you, I'd not be thrilled to run into you in a dark alley. Now combine that with most of my performance involving scowling and lurking and violent murdering, and it kind of works...

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[info]la_chute
2008-05-12 04:33 pm UTC (link)
So, wait. You want us to pay $20 a head to get up super-early in the morning and sit in a pile of snot-nosed high school kids who hate Shakespeare?

FINE, we will. But we insist on doing the Thursday afternoon show. Also Karen will be sneaking in booze for the kids.

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[info]the_pirate_show
2008-05-13 03:17 am UTC (link)
Holy crap, she'd better bring some booze for me.

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[info]la_chute
2008-05-15 03:06 pm UTC (link)
Unfortunately she's stuck at an Art Booth Thing until 2:00 and I have a client breathing down my neck, so it looks like this afternoon was not meant to be. I have, as always, high hopes for tomorrow.

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[info]masterghoti
2008-05-12 10:50 pm UTC (link)
Welcome to the club my freshly shorn friend. On another note. If you're interested, I've been thinking of a way to get more PSI out of a NERF gun, how do you feel about wearing a dive tank on your back?

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[info]the_pirate_show
2008-05-13 03:17 am UTC (link)
YES

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[info]greek_artemis
2008-05-18 09:17 pm UTC (link)
Hey, my head was equally bald on top around April 8th!

You know...you boys needs to get better and sharing the contact info around so when you arrange to hang out, you can actually hang out!!

We're just sitting around waiting for you to call him....so I can drive him to your place. Ha! ;)

You guys are crazy. I should just take him to an LCBO.

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