2.1: The Long Way (The Wrong Way)

So I've actually been doing something lately. I started work on this Homeless Ninja miniseries like, forever ago, as a sort of vanity project aside from the work I was doing with Eric on Sewerman. I worked on it in bits and pieces, although it was a lot edgier than the typical "Journey into the Sewer" stuff (which ain't no kid's stuff to begin with.) The language and level of adult humour is bumped to the forefront, so if Sewerman isn't for kids then Homeless Ninja is really for adults. Even though I hardly did any work on it, Kris somehow got ahold of it and really seemed to like the script (as well as working on a Homeless Ninja story, since he pretty well created him.) And when we saw each other last weekend, it was pretty much all he wanted to talk about, and I liked his pasion for the idea, so I've revisited it and am now quite a few pages further into it. I don't know when we can expect to get busy on it, but it seems like it will actually happen eventually.

In other news, yesterday was a cool day. Yes, I did bowl a 196, but that's not the big story. The cast and crew of the Breakfast Club, minus Shawn Crawford who had to go do some thing (not something, "some thing,") at some place. We hauled it all out to Value Village for costumes and I have to say it was highly successful. Chris beat me to the punch by comparing it to last October's venture out to Stratford for Earnest costumes (of course, we're the only ones who were there,) and this time there were no velcro pants for me - although I feel I got a damn good suit for Vernon, featuring a douchey yellow dress shirt that's so starchy I can't even believe it. It's not directly like the one in the movie (which had a black shirt and no tie,) but I think it'll make people laugh when Bender says "Does Barry Manilow know you raid his wardrobe?"

After that little adventure, we lit out for Barrett's to watch the movie, which was just awesome. I mean, the movie itself is awesome, but watching it with all those guys was cool too. "Fun times," as the kids say.

So now I'm really looking forward to the play. I mean, as soon as it involves costumes and playing dress-up, it becomes something competely different, something more real and more important-seeming. And legitimacy is something that always seems to be lacking from Fringe productions (See "Half-Past Eight PM: People Who Didn't Show Up For Rehearsals For, Rescheduling Of, Pre-Show Votes As To the Future Of.")

Anyway, I'm real excited and everything. Other than that, not much to say. Upodated Interneta recently, so there's that.

Good night all and keep on rockin
-Scotto