Posted in PAX 07, Vacation, Video Games on Aug 27th, 2007 No Comments »
You know you are at an interesting dinner when one of the guests begins an anecdote with “When I launched Final Fantasy VII…”
I think on strictest technicality what followed at Ruth’s Chris that night - in the basement, in the private room - is unbloggable. I considered myself to be very lucky to land in […]
Posted in PAX 07, Vacation, Video Games on Aug 26th, 2007 2 Comments »
I remember from PAX05 that, for the most part, Sunday is pretty lazy and my expectations have been fulfilled. The most exciting thing going on is trying to arrange getting my gear from the Sheraton to the Days Inn while participating in an all-day Starcraft board game tournament.
This means I may miss the final of […]
Posted in PAX 07, Vacation, Video Games on Aug 25th, 2007 No Comments »
PAX continues unabated. I was up until 5:00 AM with tthe night topped off by a trip to the nearest diner - the Hurricane Cafe - which was a good seven blocks from the Sheraton and the conference center. The thing with urban centers is that they are particularily lousy at facilitating living in the […]
Posted in PAX 07, Vacation, Video Games on Aug 24th, 2007 No Comments »
While in line this morning I wrote as follows…
2 hours in line and things are starting to move - finally. Already you can smell BO, and I’m surrounded by two distinct types of PAX-goers: people who are chatting loudly with their own brought-to-PAX group, or those that have been quietly immersed in their own DS […]
Posted in PAX 07, Vacation, Video Games on Aug 24th, 2007 No Comments »
The smell of geekery is in the air. Penny Arcade Expo, the annual pilgrimage of gamers and misfits is this weekend, and I’m sitting in my Sheraton hotel room and couting down the 4 hours until the doors open. Yesterday we drove 14 hours across the Canadian Rockies from Edmonton, Alberta - spirits high, […]
Posted in Edmonton Fringe '07, Vacation, Reviews on Aug 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
I’m weary from all this festivaling, and really talking about it does nobody any good if you don’t get it done during the festival, so here is a wrap up.
Cyranose
We delighted in Cleopatrick, last years show from Sound and Fury. They take vaguely historical stuff and spin ribald comedy dashed with a touch of improv […]
Posted in Edmonton Fringe '07, Vacation, Reviews on Aug 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
I left this one off the last post as I didn’t have the time to express my giddy pleasure appropriately. But, how can you dislike a play where you walk out with 2 flavoured condoms, some lube and a light-up vibrator? So note now that I was bribed. This is fringe payola. What a scandal!
Hot […]
Posted in Edmonton Fringe '07, Vacation, Reviews on Aug 20th, 2007 No Comments »
You know, I could really use a lie down so let’s just bang this out quick.
Bold and Spiky
More performance poetry? How did I do that? Maybe my brain was still weary from Jem Rolls Up, maybe I had a mild malaise from seeing them the year previous, but we had a big fan in our […]
Posted in Edmonton Fringe '07, Vacation, Reviews on Aug 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Solitude
Solitude is billed as “horror”, and is the story of a man who is afraid of being alone. He has two wives, one whom his assistant is having an affair with, the other his psychiatrist is having an affair with. He is sent to a cabin in the woods with his assistant for a vacation […]
Posted in Edmonton Fringe '07, Vacation, Reviews on Aug 20th, 2007 No Comments »
As I’m finding that most fringe plays don’t have online presences, I’m omitting credits and links from future reviews.
Somehow I drank enough to omit this from my first post. What a shame, as it was the best thing we saw that day.
Caberlesque is a blend of burlesque and cabaret, a sexually infused comedic romp that […]