Flim-Flam, Mix-Match, Razzle-Dazzle, Mish-Mash, Hokum and Humbug, Say Hey and Abracadabra

That Hawaii video was...well, maybe my attention span is just atrophied but I needed...I don't know...a car crash...a flying dog...a lightsaber duel...the severe use of an asp. YouTube is great and funny and all those wonderful things that it is...but sometimes it's like watching somebody else's home movies...

It was interesting to read about Creative Commons - a handy dandy thing to know about. Not that there's anybody using my likeness on a poster...at least I don't think there is. Maybe I should check.

From last week - let's see: Traineo (interesting), Dogster and Catster (unsettling - but I know that it's probably in my DNA to be just as unsettling about a pet...so I won't judge...too much...or too harshly), Blufr (kinda cool), Chugged (of course), Bottletalk (not as snotty as I assumed), The Puzzle Player (I loath Crosswords...but I told my Dad about the site...he loved it)

As for my hobby...I already have some links up on this page leading to the wedsites of several of the local theatres in town. For better or worse...that's my hobby (I don't know why I still haven't made my peace with that - like I stole someone's model train kit or stamp collection or something)

And speaking of treading the boards - I'm going to be in a production this July. With Empty Spaces (a company who I worked for before - performing both Oedipus The King and Ubu Roi - check out their site - click the link and find picture of me dressed as Queen Rosemund in Ubu and wearing burlap, bones, mud, dirt, and a pair of black Hanes in a tribal Oedipus). This piece - piece....'piece'...doesn't that almost make you want to throw up in your mouth a little...'the piece, this piece'...well...it hasn't been written...yet. It's a dance/movement piece (see you have to say piece instead of play...it's, like, the theatrical law or something) about Phobias. So, there's five weeks or so to get into shape and learn the series of movements/dance parts/set ups...that will make up this exploration into this dark subject....oh, did I mention that this is gonna be pretty deep-end-of-the-pool-highly-emotional-sweaty-draining-yet-hopefully-satisfying type of theatre. I sorry, I hyphenate because I don't have the...lexicon, the language, the vocabulary, the words-on-my-tongue-and-at-my-fingers.

But much sooner than all of this Phobias business, I'm in a FREE (keyword: FREE) play reading at Theatre Downtown this upcoming Tuesday night. You can check Theatre Downtown's site to get their address to MapQuest them - but it's pretty easy. They are on the corner of Princeton and Orange, right off I-4. The reading is June 12th. It's FREE. That's FREE. So FREE. No hidden charges. The play is called Maria 19 and it's a romantic comedy about a guy (ME) who meets a woman a at speed dating event (called, in the play ThirtyDates) and falls in love with her...or the idea of her...I mean, can you really get to know someone in three minutes?...

Here's the blurb for the show:

Orlando writer John Minbiole will premiere his first play Maria 19 on
June 12 at 8pm at Theatre Downtown in a public reading.

The cast includes Theatre Downtown veterans Daniel Cooksley, Jennifer
Gannon and Derek Ormond. The reading will be free and open to the
public. {umm, my name's not in the blurb but that's okay - it's not really a NAME-Name type name anyway}

Maria 19 is a comedy about the modern-day phenomenon of speed-dating,
and the awkwardness and comic moments that go along with it. Tom
meets Maria at a speed-date, and he catches a vibe. But who is she?
Can you really know someone in three minutes?

After the reading there will be a talkback session with the actors
and the writer.

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So, that's it. That's MY hobby. I hope that some of you will come out and give this really funny play a listen and some of your feedback.