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Trapeze Hurts

Physically

Today my abdominal, glutial, bicep and shoulder muscles hurt.  Also the scratches on left arm and behind my right knee.  Both scratches are from the new catch bar.  I acted like nothing was going on while replacing the old with the new but it was scary!  Holding on for dear life tears at you.

Mentally

It's as different as it is the same at the trapeze. New location, new students, staff changes.  Working on Comic-Con weekend, only the people who don't like comic books were there.  The students were a combination of people who beat themselves up, succeed in spite of themselves, and those who go with the flow.  There was also a woman from another school - always fun to see.  The pain comes from the various coaching methods, some of which use negative reinforcement.  My personal belief is that you get the same results if you're nice so why not be nice?

Emotionally

Jake's birthday is on Tuesday and it will be painful.  It would have been his 20th.  He had so much promise, so much love and so much life.  He was better than I am at everything (love, life, trapeze).  I was just a little bit better at surfing but he had plenty of time to get better than me.  Until he died young.  His buddy Chris seems to be a lot like him and I'm embarrassed to say that I've been keeping him at arm's length because it just hurts so much.  To be reminded of Jake, to worry for another young throwing everything away.  But, to his credit, the kid is talented, kind and lovable.

So I'll get a little closer because trapeze hurts.  And that's not really an excuse to stop.

Neighbors

Sing out, brothers and sisters, if you've had a neighbor drive you right up the wall!

And please tell me what can be done, what you did, what you'd do if you could.

What I would do if I could:

1. Hug the offender - but I'm feeling too much nastiness

2. Protect the dog - it's not the dog's fault

3. Get the drugs out - they ruin everything

4. Buy the condo - and then have a normal sized home

5. Move

See Parasite Drag

There are plays you see that you wish you hadn't and there are plays you wish you hadn't seen that you're glad you did.  Parasite Drag is one of the latter.  The subject matter is... without giving up the surprise... dramatic.  The actors are great and it's got four roles that actors would give their eye teeth for.

Two of the actors in this play are friends (Andy Collins who looks younger than me but is exactly the same age - sorry Andy; and Susan Hammons).  They play a religious mid western couple who is struggling with passionlesssnes and give the roles all they can. 

The cast is rounded out by Kim Strassburger and John Polak who have the meatier roles.  I saw Kim and John in Pillow Man a few years back and have to ask; what is it with John Polak and pillows?

This play is at Ion Theatre (at 6th and Penn).  It's amazing to see what Glenn Paris and Claudio Raygosa have done with that space.  They got everything they could get out of the space and, as of the final preview of Parasite Drag, have got 99.98% of what they need from the cast.  See it.