Indeed, MUCH progress happening so quickly on the sparklefront, it’s impossible to tell you everything, but the FUN news is that we’re having a super mega fun HARVEST GALA, and it’s on September 28th, so block out your evening with pencils, pens, write it in cheese, however you need to remember to save that date, do it! And more information shall be forthcoming in a jiffy!
How do you write a SparkleBlob Holiday Show Script? It takes a very special set of circumstances.
Shannon Gallagher and I (Julianna Parr) get in her reddish orange air-conditioned Honda Element. As the familiar highways become unfamiliar, and the caffeine does its job, the unraveling of ideas fuels the trip. We careen through the southland until the buildings give way to rock piles, surroundings become more sparse, the panorama elevates in temperature and terrain. Clues begin to show themselves, while other inclinations become ever more elusive.
This is how we write the script.
I can tell you it’s nothing fancy, and there are a lot of snacks, and the desert absolutely lives up to its reputation in June. We asked the T-Rex in Cabazon a bunch of questions, even went up inside the big thing’s head and gazed at the 10 from afar, a good view of the brontosaurus giftshop notwithstanding. Glorious gleaming white turbines twirled as the tiny car with our brains in it it zoomed past the arid tell-all of rocky distant worlds. What inspired us?
Yep, a SparkleBlob script unrolled itself across our minds, thanks to all those Joshua Trees pointing the way. And all I can tell you is that all will be revealed come December.
Holiday Show News: The solstice is here, happy solar noon! Alex, Roz and JP (that’s me) have had another meeting, and at this one, Roz made dinner! I don’t have any photos of said dinner… but it was delicious, it involved roasted cauliflower and pasta with a delicious tomato-based sauce on it. We talked about this website, board members, an exciting pizza meeting with our staff, and developments to come for the 2013 season of the holiday show.
CraftNight News: CraftNight has acquired a truly weird 4th of July Craft that involves a plant holder that resembles Old Glory. So if you’re not doing anything Wednesday the 26th of June, come to CraftNight and make one of those.
Gothtober News: Gothtober is going to be “Airport” themed, and will be sending out it’s official “Call for Artists” in July.
NOW FOR THE SQUIRREL WARNING: In Yosemite, recently, a squirrel was trapped in my van overnight. It chewed through two seatbelts, pooed a lot all over the place, built a weird nest in the center console, chewed through my cell phone charger, and ripped up the fabric on the interior of the van above the rear view mirror. I felt really bad that it was trapped in there, because all of the signs of panic were on display, it even tried chewing its way out near the sliding door.
So.
When you go camping in bear-raccoon-deer land, anywhere with brazen national-park savvy animals, the rangers are going to stress the importance of using the bear boxes. The won’t say anything about squirrels. That’s why I’m here. BEWARE OF THE SQUIRRELS!!! Don’t leave your car unsupervised for even a moment!
It took Camp Teeny Mini Weenie over 2 hours to locate the freaked-out squirrel beneath the airbag dashboard space on the passenger side. And even then, we weren’t sure if it was completely gone until Alex drove the van around in circles while Shannon Dedman sat in the backseat with a really big stick to chase it with in case it emerged.
It did not emerge, and there has been no further damage done to the van, and there’s no dead squirrel odor, so I think we’re “out of the woods” literally and figuratively.