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I have fond memories of Star Trek: The Experience. From days spent going on the ride, shopping on the Promenade of DS9. I spent so much time at this place, I spent my 21st birthday there - drinking white russians and playing slots because that’s all my mind could handle. It didn’t even register the $250 jackpot for about a minute.

So… I guess all I have to say is “So it goes.”

Who knows, maybe they’ll even do another Experience someplace else in the country? I know I’d visit.

[From WWdN: In Exile: Star Trek: The Experience is closing]

To be honest I hadn’t heard much about “Love, Janis“: The Musical; only a few things here and there, mostly on KPIG radio when the show was already really close. One of my buddies told me he had an extra ticket to the show on the 19th at Cal Poly - and I love Big Brother and Janis Joplin so I was really excited about the opportunity to get to go.

The show kicked off with a short introduction and went right into “Piece Of My Heart” (which is a little overplayed, but still fucking rocked.) There were two girls who played Janis Joplin, one was a narrator of her writing and the other was the singer - who also ended up helping out in the narration, and who also served as a visual show of the duality of Janis Joplin’s personality, she was the on stage personality. I wish I had found out the name of the singer because her voice was… amazing to say the least.

At a lot of the shows my buddy Kevin and I go to we end up being either the youngest or close to the youngest - we saw the Kingston Trio in Carmel-by-the-Sea a few years ago we were almost the youngest people in the crowd, save for a 7 year old that we were informed looked “none too happy to be there”, but because of that and a woman we met there (who ended up being the fiancée of one of the Trio) we got to meet the guys after the show. Of course, I really thought Janis was far from exclusive to the older crowd that these kind of events seem to generate. It was a very well put together show, with great narration and excellent singing.

Best musical I’ve ever seen.

-Tyler

Last Monday I started a summer English class so I’ll be working on writing for that a lot and probably won’t have the energy or time to write much here for the next 5 weeks. Hopefully I’ll improve my writing skills while I’m in this class. Unfortunately I have a few reviews I want to write that I probably won’t get to, but there’s a good chance I can at least start them and will have something to post a few days after my classes end.

Other unfortunates: I’m almost 100% that I won’t be going to Comic Con this year, which is a bummer - I was really looking forward to meeting R.K. Milholland, Jennie Breeden, and Felicia Day (with the rest of The Guild)

Even more unfortunates: one of my a-hole friends decided he’d be just that and give me a copy of WoW two days before I started my class. Well, I’m not addicted, but I can see it being a horrible timesink which is not good with the start of my English class. Bugger.

smoochies

-Tyler

Both my new coffee press and grinder came in today. I had to run out and grab some fresh coffee and try them out!

They look pretty cool, the three cup is a PERFECT size for me. I shouldn’t drink more than I can get out of the press and I think I have my grinder set to make the right amount of grounds for the press (it’s got a timer, a little math and a few seconds later I had a little more than the right amount. 10-11 seconds yields the correct amount of grounds, and first time was about 13 seconds. Not too shabby!)

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