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Making Canned Halloween Monstrosities

The Here Be Monsters Carnival of the Arts is on again.

David and I took Nicole and volunteered at the opening night cabaret at the Chapel, the re-purposed funeral home down behind the Princess Hotel. (A skeezy neighborhood, but venues are venues and you work with what you've got.) We had a surprising amount of fun for standing at a door and collecting loose change from people. The show was good, if a bit bizarre, the art had enough hits to make up for the misses, and I reconnected with Ashley, someone I liked seeing every week when I worked at the Dance Center. I'm looking forward to going back on Wednesday, Thursday and maybe Friday for the Showoff Festival, their "lite" version of Theater Under the Gun. (Tenth anniversary, no less, how time flies.)

Would anyone else like to come? It's free if you volunteer.

Making Monstrous Paper-Mache Pumpkins

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stranger_here/]

I'd like to come, but I think the "free if you volunteer" thing would be offset by the cost of airfare, alas.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

But you could stay at my place! I even just put up silk satin curtains so people who stay over have some privacy.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stranger_here/]

One of these days, I may well take you up on that.

(My husband's adorable sister recently spent her honeymoon in your town and had a great time there. She's an engineer at a Swedish recording studio and I guess there's a music scene in Vancouver that she fell in love with from afar? I was tempted to fly out and see her while we were conveniently located on the same continent, and would gladly have availed myself of your silk satin curtains then, but I figured a honeymoon is one of those things you don't crash.)

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I certainly hope so. Soon we'll have a guest room/library for people who stay over, which should be even a little bit nicer. Plus have a disco ball.

(It's never occurred to me anyone would spend their honeymoon here, but I suppose people in Cancun might feel the same way.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stranger_here/]

I was surprised too, but that was where she wanted to be!