8.16.01

good morning. today i’m going to the LIBRARY! to look up old Ed Sullivan tapes. (spoken aloud, that last sentence reads at normal volume until you get to LIBRARY! which must be screeched out at top volume, sort of like the sega adverts where the guy screams “SEGA!” at the end). no one knows why, but the Boise Public LIBRARY! insists on spelling the world with an exclamation point. see, here’s a picture. at night that sign lights up and can be read from several blocks way. the LIBRARY! is right around the corner from the rehearsal hall where i work, so there are lots of LIBRARY! jokes, but not too many opportunities to actually go and use the LIBRARY!. but now i seem to be the unofficial dramaturg for Forever Plaid (new show i’m rehearsing), so the director sends me out on little research projects. which is fine by me, since it means i have to spend less time in rehearsal or slaving over the copy machine.

on the bright side, one of the actors has to eat fire on stage, and he promised to teach me how to do it. he says you only burn your mouth the first time. after that it’s like riding a bicycle – you never forget. i figure this will be a great party trick.