SparkleBlob Solstice!

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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.

What’s Happening Anyway?

I can say that things are brewing, things are being written, things are being researched and we now have an official MISSION STATEMENT which we hope you’ll read! Alex bought a Crockpot and has been making delicious meals for our meetings. He made something with lentils.

In a restaurant in Burbank very near midnight, the SparkleBlob Annual Holiday show was roughly outlined.

CraftNight has patriotic plans for the 3rd of July involving a bizarre plant holder that looks like Old Glory.

Gothtober is opening jars of pickled toes and prepping for the start of a ghoulish season.

SparkleBlob’s 5th Show: December 14th – 23rd at Automata!

Seasons Greetings! A Disaster in Four Acts!

A Multidimensional Musical Puppet Adventure Involving Faith, Freight and Fruitcake 

Join Silver Lake’s most well-adjusted family on a trip down the Los Angeles River to go get their pagan-revival-sustainable xmas tree from a barge in Long Beach! As long as this routine expedition doesn’t meet the greatest earthquake ever known, plunging their tiny raft down a thousand feet below to some sort of totally esoteric and bizarre primeval world,everything should be just fine.

STARRING:
The SparkleBlob Puppeteers with The Dinglebell Hollies

DATES and TIMES
OPENING NIGHT–FRI Dec. 14th–8:30pm
SAT Dec. 15th–7:00pm and 9:00pm
SUN Dec. 16th –3:00pm and 7:00pm
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FRI Dec. 21st–8:30pm
SAT Dec. 22nd–7:00pm and 9:00pm
SUN Dec. 23rd–3:00pm and 7:00pm

TICKET PRICES:
General Admission: $15.00
Seniors: $12.00
Students: $12.00
Under 12: $10.00**
Under 3: FREE**

** Sunday matinees are *especially* children & family friendly!

LOCATION & PARKING:
Automata in Chinatown
504 Chung King Court
Los Angeles, CA
90012

Metered street parking and paid parking lots are within easy walking distance.