I think this is the best article yet about the Williamston Theatre. We got a bunch of nice response from the public about it.

My question is – how does a cow lead factory workers and police on a 6 hour chase?!

Jobs I Have Had:
1. Video Store Clerk
2. Stage Manager
3. Director
4. University Lecturer

Four Places I Have Lived:
1. New Boston, MI
2. Ypsilanti, MI
3. Ann Arbor, MI
4. Chelsea, MI

Four TV Shows I Watch:
1. Arrested Development
2. Battlestar Galatica
3. Survivor
4. The Amazing Race

Four Places You Have Been on Vacation:
1. England
2. Mammoth Caves
3. Florida (for Spring Training!)
4. New York, NY

Four Web sites I Visit Daily:
1. Live Journal
2. Juno (for email!)
3. Detroit News
4. CNN

Four Favorite Foods:
1. Cheese enchiladas
2. Starbucks Mocha
3. Jeanne’s Italian Chicken
4. Pizza

Four Places You’d Like to Be: (I assumed this was “for a little while”)
1. Camping in the mountains (good one, Reticent!)
2. Italy
3. Seattle
4. Hangin’ out with my family on a cruise ship

So, what are YOUR 4 things?

Okay, Lost was GREAT this week. Spoilers!

What a night. The WIlliamston Theatre open house was an amazing thing.

We had hoped for 25 or 30 people.

By the end of our two hour event, best guesses were that there were 125 people there.

It was a huge night for us.

There will be details later. Now, I’m barely awake enough to hit the keys…

Well, tomorrow (Thursday) is the Williamston Theatre’s Open House. We’re basically throwing open the doors and inviting in anyone who wants to chat, have baked goods and drinks, listen to music, tour the building, talk about what the company is planning/hoping for/working on, check out the blueprints and taped out diagrams of the stage/seats, or just come in out of the cold.

Wish us luck! And if you’re in the area, stop by!

A great moment with my kid: So, tonight, as Maggie and I are reading Harry Potter (we were taking turns, each reading a couple of pages, before she went to sleep), I went off-book. {Um…to clarify: This was done in a silly way, not a Stephen King kind of way.}

The line was something like, “Harry, Ron and Hermione sat in the Gryffindor common room. Crookshanks the cat was stretched out lazily in front of the fire.”

At this point, I decided to see if Maggie was really listening or asleep, so I continued “Suddenly, a spark flew from the fire, and Crookshanks’ tail caught fire. The cat began racing around the room in big circles. Hermione tried to catch it, and the cat ran through her legs, catching her skirt on fire. Now Hermione and the cat are running in circles on fire around the room. Ron, trying to help, stuck out his arms to grab the cat, who jumped over his head. Of course, Ron’s hair caught fire. Now Ron, Hermione and Crookshanks are running in a big circle, on fire. Harry grabbed his broom and tried to beat the fire out of Ron’s hair. The broom caught on fire. Now all four are running in a big circle, on fire!”

By this point Maggie, who is wide awake still, is laughing uncontrollably and yelling “Dad! That’s not what happened! Stop it!!” and I keep ad-libbing until we both go hysterical with laughter. Then she starts to do more story about people running around trying to beat each other out with brooms. Eventually, through much laughing, we wound up with Dumbledore coming in, freezing everyone like a statue, and stealing Ron’s candy.

Silly, silly fun.

(And HEY!, all you PETA people and folks worried about my daughter turning out an abusive arsonist? Go read something else.)

See this picture?

That’s me on the left, John Lepard on the right, in the Williamston Theatre. In the true spirit of full disclosure I feel it’s necessary to point out that when taking this shot they had John stand a foot behind me and ALSO put me up on a step so we would look closer in height. I didn’t mind. I actually felt bad for him…I mean, who would want to be that tall? Poor lanky fella.

Speaking of the theatre: I’ve been talking about how great the building is, well of course it’s not a theatre yet. The main space is a big almost empty room that needs some posts removed and some seating banks and walls installed! Today, however, 2 marvelous Stage Managers – Amy and Michelle – came out and taped out the theatre on the floor for me. (We have an open house on Thursday night, and we wanted it done so folks could get an idea of what we wanted to do with the space.) The stage, the seating banks, the rows of seats, the steps, even the walls and box office. Oh MAN! Seeing the blueprints was one thing, and imagining it in my head was another, but seeing it all in lifesize dimensions on the floor is an amazingly inspiring thing! We’re still not even sure if this is the actual, final layout, but seeing it there is just incredible!

Alan Trammell did not get elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame again this year: Despite great lifetime stats, Tram is getting overlooked in a HUGE way by the voters.
More thoughts about why Alan Trammell should be in the Hall of Fame.

“One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there’s the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre.”
-David Soul

Excellent! According to reports, the 1st season of the Justice League animated series on Cartoon Network will be released in March! [Edited To Add: I meant to say, released on DVD.]

When you’ve been reading the Justice League as long as I have, this is exciting news!