July = Chocolate Season? Who knew?

I've got not one but *two* chocolate gigs coming up in the next couple weeks! I'll be providing refreshments up in Gloucester at the Really, Really, Really Bad Pirate Show, and then Willoughby & Baltic will be selling them during ArtBeat.

It's making me think about maybe putting something on the web...wait, no, sorry, the proper marketing term is "establish a web presence". But (as you can see from how much effort I've put into making this one look good) I know just about as much about websites as I do about competitive surfing.

Any thoughts? Advice? Should I just make like an indie rock band and myspace it?

Movies, I watch movies

Our latest Netflix was 'Lovesick: the Making of Zumanity'. It was by the same Cirque du Soleil-affiliated filming team who did their documentary of Varekai.

It wasn't a good documentary.

It could be useful for several other things though. It could be:

a) a how-to guide for film classes, showing them what NOT to do. Making sequences "more interesting" by speeding things up or slowing things down? Conducting interviews with people and never identifying who they are or why they're important? Showing things out of sequence? Splicing in SOUND EFFECTS? No. Just, no.

b) an Afterschool Special to be shown during Health Class. I'll even write the post-viewing discussion questions.

*You're dating a male stripper with known fidelity issues who has just moved across the continent, for an indefinite period of time, to perform nude in a cabaret. Should you have his baby? And if yes, how supportive and available do you honestly expect him to be?

* You're engaged to a woman 11 years younger than you who's left the country to perform as a WHIP DANCER in an erotic cabaret. Your idea of a fun time is, apparently, vacuuming. Will this marriage work?

c) An ad for competing Vegas shows. "ZUMANITY is an exploration of sex and passion created by eight pudgy white Canadian men who spent several months in a windowless room shouting at each other. Yeah, that'll work."