Optimally different!

Leaving for Arisia in a bit! I actually have a fair number of performances and other such things going on this year, and I'm really excited about it:

- Friday, 10pm: I will be in "The Starship of Madness" with preraphaelite, audioboy, read_alicia and the rest of the Post Meridian Radio Players cast and crew. It's Doctor Who meets HP Lovecraft! That's not just a description of the style, by the way, that's the plot! :D (except that the DW fanboy in me objects to referring to the main character as "Doctor Who", but what's a little pedantry between friends?) I will be doing raspy monster voices that, in time-honored Doctor Who tradition, walk the line between creepy and silly sounding.

- Saturday, noon: Stranger Ways / Sassafrass double show! Not only do we get to play with faerieboots, juldea and aurelia_star's norse-inspired a capella group, this will also be the release party for Stranger Ways' new album. Yay! We'll be selling copies of the CD and download cards for the digital version. Bandcamp links will go up tomorrow for those who can't make it.

- Saturday, 6pm: I'll be moderating the Story Improv panel, which involves two teams of two writers each, who will take turns crafting stories based on audience feedback. I attended a panel like this at Balticon and it was so much fun I pitched it for Arisia. It only added to my sense of dread/joy when I saw that two of the writers are elenuial and lightcastle! :)

There are a lot of other things I'm hoping to make it to over the course of the weekend, too many to advertise all of them here, but here are a couple of the big ones:

Friday at 9p AND Saturday at 10a, Michael Anderson will be doing his one-man show, "Hallucinating Shakespeare", which includes "A Bloody Deed", the funniest half-hour of a dude talking about Shakespeare that you are likely to ever hear. If you can't make it in-person, there's a video of a past performance here, but seriously, I saw this show last Arisia and it was good enough that they're bringing him back for two more performances this year.

Then at 7p on Sunday, 2010: Our Hideous Future, The Musical, Camberville's own home-grown nerd musical. Saw this when it was first produced, and I don't think there exists a better audience for this show than Arisia. It'll be a great crowd and a lot of fun. Plus, lediva plays an evil AI bent on world domination. It's like someone put life at BCOS up on stage!