I DARE YOU TO SAY 'WHAT' AGAIN!!!

Overcompensating is extra good lately. Jeffrey Rowland, after meeting Sam Jackson, makes a few lifestyle changes...

Heather LockLEER

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Walleye vision

That's me in the red...

"I solemnly swear/to change my approach..."

"...stop shavin' coke/stay away from hos..." etc. etc.

So, this blog was SUPPOSED to be a free-associative Nestea Plunge into what's going on with me right now. I will strive, like Jay-Z, to "put down the toast" and get back "on point".

My last venture into the world of blogging did not go well. It ostensibly was a chronicle of my experiences in local theatre. I would relate the ups and downs of auditioning, rehearsing, performing, self-promoting, dating, partying, you-name-it as they came and went. Though I used no names or specific, incriminating details online, certain people I was writing about amazingly found their way through the digital wilderness and recognized themselves in my blog. I wouldn't say I was writing bad things about anyone, but I was certainly making the most out of what did (and didn't happen). Stories got exaggerated, events were trumped up and some of the "things one thinks and never says" (right, Jerry Maguire?) got said in a major way. This made some folks unhappy; let me say, if those worthies somehow once again cross the digital divide and improbably find themselves in front of this blog: I apologize if you were hurt by what I wrote.

I set out to entertain in my blog, and used as my characters the people surrounding me. In the process of fashioning entertaining events out of my humble experiences, the corners got shaved off of a lot of people's true representations. Did the person I called a jerk serve for two years in the Peace Corps? Yeah, probably. The girl I suggested was morally "soft" was active in her church, and the hack director is now on a widely-seen cable show. No one was depicted exactly how they really are or even how I honestly saw them. The point is, I was just trying to make a fictional story out of my experiences, a plucky kid rolling with the punches in a topsy-turvy world, The Devil Wears Prada in community theatre, if you like, and the way to do that, in my mind, was to sex things up. Every bit of reporting colors its subject in some fashion, and I took that and ran with it. My mistake.

This blog will not feature embellishment (well, maybe some; I mean, it's me, after all), but will be an attempt to record my current life in an entertaining and accurate way. So there. That's as close to a mission statement that I'm going to get.

Ta.

Still less than a "Mayonn-egg"...

Starbucks wants to murder you with food. Exhibit A:

Egg Salad Sandwich on Muiltgrain bread. Taaaasty.


A quick glance at the "Nutritional Information" reveals...

21(!?!) grams of fat
800mg of sodium
375mg of cholesterol OMGWTFBBQ That's like 125% of what you should safely get per day.

The sandwich went in the trash and I guess I'm headed for the salad bar.

*sniff* I was going to love that sandwich...I was going to love it all night long...

The Videogame Industry is Broken

An interesting article from Slashdot...it's funny..Hollywood's lived with these problems for 100 years and is still around...

The Videogame Industry is Broken

Plugs B4 Hugs

Only an actor would pimp his show before even writing anything significant on his blog, but here you go...


Come one come all to the 2006 season of Shakespeare and Company!

It's been a good season so far and we've got two weeks left. Come see me do a cartwheel and eat food that isn't mine. Click here for more info.

Ta.

it begins