Temperature Control

Temperature Control

Me as a child: Why can't we turn up the heat? More clothes are stupid. We're inside! We have heating! We are gods of our artificial environment!

Me as a broke ass adult opening a hydro bill: Ohhhhhh.

Me: *shows basic human decency to cashier

Cashier: ??!?! Thank you! You’re the nicest person ever!

Me: are you ok

Oh great, snow. You know what that means.

It means inconsiderate, lazy, selfish, assholes are going to be driving around with their vehicles covered in snow.

Roof, hood, trunk, windows, mirrors, bed covers - covered in snow, the barest hints scraped away by the windshield wipers and maybe the effort of holding the button to make a side window roll up and down.

Hoping it'll all melt eventually, or blow off once they start driving.

Yah. In my FACE.

Don't "have time" to clean your car off?

How much time you going to waste when you cause me to crash and I take your ass to court? How's a criminal negligence charge going to look on your resume?

"But my children's-sports-team-minivan / suburbitank-for-grocery-shopping / lifted-full-cab-hemi-truck is too tall to reach all that snow on top!"

You live in Canada. Snow isn't a surprise. The LACK of snow is maybe a surprise. But now it's here, like it always is eventually, own up and clear it because it's the decent thing to do. It's the same reason you shovel your sidewalk. It might not actually benefit - YOU-, but it helps everyone else, and covers your ass from fines.

- like seriously some dudebro sunglasses boi pulled up beside me with a sports car shorter than my motorcycle, and it had an inch of snow on it. One sweep would have shoved it all off. The barest minimum effort. Ugh .-

To everyone who does their part to make sure their vehicles are safe, we appreciate you! Thank you!

There is a phrase used to describe people, often strangers, as “ships passing in the night.” The phrase is meant to describe how fleeting the intersection of two lives can be, how briefly people we don’t know can flicker in and out of our lives. 

But when I read about the Titanic, I think we can push the phrase further. Because sometimes, as you pass another ship in the night, you may hear a cry in the dark. A person in danger. A shout for help. Distress rockets and SOS signals wailing into the night. A stranger in crisis. 

And in those fleeting moments as your ship passes theirs, you get to make the choice- are you the Californian, the closest ship to the Titanic, which saw the distress rockets and saw the lights on the horizon and sat and did nothing; or are you the Carpathia, turning on a dime, pushing all steam to the engines, racing to help?

We can not say for sure what caused the Californian to not help the Titanic in that night of crisis. Whether is was apathy or incompetence or fear, we don’t know.

 But we know that every single soul who survived the Titanic survived because of the Carpathia. Because the crew and the passengers of that ship raced nearly 60 miles through ice fields above their maximum speed in the dead of night, readying life boats, readying triage, to pull them from the water. 

So, yes, we are ships passing in the night, and when given the chance to turn away or do good, always err on the side of reckless compassion. 

Simple studio show, he said.

Hardly any tech, he said.

Then why I am at hour five of a solo focus/design session.

Needless to say the lighting area for the last show in here (one woman on an 8'x12' stage at a 1' height) was not sufficient for a three person production, on the floor, with a shipping trunk, 3'x2' slat box, coat rack, and canvas ship sail/projection screen.

So let's turn an 8x12 foot coverage wash into 24x20 playing space.

Hell yes I love this job.

But sometimes, seriously.

San Fransokyo is gonna get overrun with Heartless while I'm stuck here focusing tips.

Theatre Life Tip: Your Business Agent/Technical Director/Designer will always say "it should be easy" to coax you to take the call, because once you walk into the building, your soul is theirs. It's never "that easy".

Letterkenny Live Encore Tour

Wed Dec 5, 2018

Meridian Center, St. Catharines, Ontario

In the audience for a change! A holiday treat.

Season 6 confirmed for Xmas Day!

Check your local LCBO for the official Puppers beer!