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December 31, 2003
Top 5
You can't stop the beat, and we can't stop getting good press. For a show that's not even running anymore. Imagine what it'd be like if we were actually doing the show. I suppose the daily ticker-tape parades would get tiring. What with all the ticker-tape and all. Can you tell I was at work wrasslin' with a moody server until 3:30 am last night?
The point? Newcity's last issue of the year (or technically their first of 2004, according to the cover date, though in some freak of time travel I already have this missive from the future in my hands) is their Top 5s of 2003. And on the list of Nina Metz' Top 5 Innovative Productions? The Neutrino Project (FuzzyCo) (with a mysterious period after FuzzyCo. It's not an abbreviation for Fuzzy Company, folks. We're not the band "Adult.") Anyway, yay.
Happy new year, y'all.
Posted by Fuzzy at 11:55 AM
December 27, 2003
Friends in small spaces
My friends Karl and Maria stopped in on their way back from Indiana to Minnesota. For some reason, I thought Navy Pier might be a good place to meet. It was packed to the gills with children. It was a bit over-whelming, especially since I've spent most of the holiday in my apartment.
It did, however, let us get a photo-booth picture. Which always rocks. This one spit out double-prints on pre-preforated paper, which solves the eternal photo-booth question of who gets to keep the pictures. Except that there were three of us, so we still had the question. I got one copy, so I assume that Karl and Maria spent the rest of their drive home fighting over who got to keep the other half.
Posted by Fuzzy at 11:32 PM | Comments (0)
December 16, 2003
And again...
More office-moving problems. But now FuzzyCo should be stable. (Fingers crossed)
Posted by Fuzzy at 5:26 PM | Comments (0)
December 10, 2003
Oops
Oops -- we were offline for a day, just now. Offices getting moved, servers getting turned off by accident, and so on. Sorry.
Posted by Fuzzy at 1:40 PM | Comments (0)
December 9, 2003
Chicago happened
This is my backyard:
For once, a mess is not my fault.
I've lived in Chicago for four years now, and I've gotten along pretty well -- same apartment, nice (though crazy) landlord, reasonable number of parking tickets, no big hassles. Recently, I think, the city itself woke up and realized that I wasn't having a real big city experience. So I've been fighting a mechanic who over-charged me $2000 in September (I finally got it back today!) and my car wouldn't pass emissions inspections and our building got sold to someone who was going to gut-rehab it into condos. Only, they didn't have permits. So the city gave them a stop-work order. But not before they had gutted enough apartments to create that mess in the parking lot behind the building. And there's no cold water in the bathroom (water comes out -- but it's hotter than the hot water). And so on and so forth. (Oh, yeah, and the city shut down the two theaters I do most of my shows at.)
Yay, Chicago!
Posted by Fuzzy at 1:32 PM | Comments (0)
December 8, 2003
Photos from New Zealand
I finally got my photos from New Zealand organized and online. Somehow we didn't get any photos of our incredible hosts -- Mark Scott and Bill Scott. They put up with two Americans over-running their house, made us innumerable cups of tea, and helped us in dozens of ways. Yay!
Posted by Fuzzy at 12:42 PM
December 5, 2003
Neutrino on Next Big Thing
Neutrino, the New York group that we got the idea for the Neutrino Project from, will be on NPR's The Next Big Thing this weekend.
Posted by Fuzzy at 5:34 PM
December 2, 2003
All Blowed Up
Man, I leave the city for 10 minutes, and you all get up to the craziest antics...
So the Playground is closed at the moment, which means the Bare show next week is in doubt (the least of their worries, I'm sure, but it matters to me). And WNEP is leaving their space and going itinerant again. But it looks like the Around Midnite Series will be taking December off and then moving to Lakeshore Theater (still as a WNEP production).
Posted by Fuzzy at 9:06 PM | Comments (1)
Word count - 187
Well, this will be a short entry: I didn't have a laptop to take on the flight to NZ. So, no last-minute-full-out attempts at nanowrimo this year. Just the bitter stink of failure. (Of course, I had a nice time in New Zealand, so there's that, then.)
Posted by Fuzzy at 8:39 PM | Comments (0)