4.5.01
paul completes what i was trying to say yesterday, only with more eloquence. that’s why he’s the writer, and i do things like catch severed heads for a living.

have i ever told that story? well, probably, but that’s too bad because this is my blog and i’ll cry if i want to. anyway, one summer during college i worked as an assistant stage manager at the idaho shakespeare festival. there’s a scene in cymbeline where the two brothers cut off cloten’s head and say that they’re going to go throw it in the creek. so the actor chucks the head over the back of the set where, i, the lowly, underpaid asm, am waiting to catch it. by the end of the season we had a regular football game going back there. when i wasn’t catching severed heads, i was either making fake blood or schlepping around an entire moose carcass. at least i’m rarely bored with this line of work.