What?

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I have this huge reaction to cereal names. the off brands that sit right next to the real thing. I think someone writes them specifically to see if I will react.


Although the REAL THING is sort of subjective when you're talking about... let's say... Cookie Crisp.  What is super REAL about that?





This crazy all stems from the cereal:



ESSENTIALLY YOU


WHAT?!


Please invite me to whatever meeting said "YES. YES LET'S GO WITH THAT. GOOD IDEA BARB."


It's really Special K with Red Berries for awesome people.

Which would have been my name suggestion. That, or something like:

Special U, or eSPECIALly oK. or DONT LET THE BERRIES GET WET. THEY ARE MUCH BETTER IN DRY FORM.

I need to know what name was booted out. What contender was in the running neck and neck with Essentially You?

Cereal is familiar. expensive. pitched hilariously. catchy- IN MOST CASES. ( good example- FRANKENBERRY. solid name. solid monster character)

Cereal is comfort.


I WANT TO NAME THE CEREALS.


MEANWHILE

The last few days have been intense.

And. I did get an off brand cereal. 

True to form. I opened it ASAP. and it jumped out of my hands and went 

everywhere.

What's worse?

That it happened. 

or that I ate it.

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I will post my current project soon.

You have to see it in real life though.  

I will give you a hint.

Follow.

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workingoneverythingatonce

I sew better on the floor. 

Most of the time.

At night. 

and in Christmas pajamas apparently. 

Just finished another puppet. 

Blue girl.

She is in a show that opens. SOON.

with OLD KENT ROAD THEATER

She is going to drive up to NY with me. 

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Well. check her out.

Yellow Boy/VO-TYLER/OP-JOEY

                      Do you ever feel like you don't belong?

Blue Girl/VO-MEGAN/OP-BECKY

                      Of course I do. I'm a puppet. And I'm blue. I'm blue but I'm not bitter.

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And

Someone has been riding around with me recently because he too is in the show. And, has to leave my studio and get ready to hit the road again.

It seriously makes sense to buckle him in. Otherwise he flies across the seat and gets ruined. 

BUT. I will be honest.

I forget he is in there EVERY time I walk away from my truck.

I know this because of what happens when I walk back. Even if I have only been away for a matter of seconds. I have completely forgotten about him. 

And my heart drops when I approach my truck in a parking lot and see a silhouette in the back seat through the tinted windows.

EVERY time.

I mean WHAT WOULD YOOUUU do if you were changing lanes and checked your mirror and

BAM. 

yep.  I have a heart attack every time.

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Did I mention that the blue girl and the yellow boy have a baby?

They do.

And the baby has little green knees.

You have to see the show. 

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OK WAIT.

time out.

I need to remind myself what is outside my window.

Sometimes it's ok to stop what you are doing to stare.

It's more important than anything really.

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BACK TO THE NEW SHOW:


Old Kent Road Theater's 
EMANCIPATORY POLITICS: A ROMANTIC TRAGEDY


"Man [sic] is by nature a political animal.”

The Old Kent Road Theater’s Emancipatory Politics: A Romantic Tragedy (EP: ART) flings a large ensemble into a traumatic struggle to create an opening for sprawling thought and intimate embraces. Committed to the comedy of desire, the physicality of loss, and the potential for new spaces, this hyper-theater, contemporary ecstasy searches for the inextinguishable kernel of the radical-possible!

It is big-crazy. And in the East Village. And we will have beer & wine there.

More information at www.incubatorarts.org andwww.oldkentroadtheater.com.

Featuring Becky Byers, Anne Carlisle, Tyler Foltz, Charlie Hewson*, Beowulf Jones, Gavin Starr Kendall, Jesse Liebman, Megan McGowan, Iracel Rivero, Heather Lee Rogers, Joey Ryan, Alexis Sottile, Victoria Tate, Hollis Witherspoon, and Morgan Anne Zipf.

*Appears courtesy of AEA.

Art Design by Abernathy Bland
Light Design by Morgan Anne Zipf
Text by Eric Bland
Direction by Eric Bland and the OKRT Ensemble

8 Performance Dates:
Thu 12/2, Fri 12/3, Sat 12/4, Sun 12/5, Tue 12/7, Thu 12/9, Fri 12/10, Sat 12/11
All shows at 8pm.
Tix: $18 General / $14 Student
Buy here: https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/764155






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Meanwhile, some dude is going off the deep end.

And I have to wait for him to doggy paddle to the side ladder before I can jump.

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Laundry Day

What are you washing?

Oh...

A small pair of puppet pants.

These are real things drying around my house.

Stay tuned.   

I also made a bonnet. 

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CAROU SELL

HEY YAY HEY YAY, FRIENDS AND ROMANS COUNTRY MENNNNN 
                        
                                                                                           - Frank Turner

PRINTS ARE FOR SALE. 
PRINTS ARE FOR SALE. 
PRINTS ARE FOR SALE. 




(Just utilizing the rule of thirds.)


If it is on my website or blog and you want it. It's yours.





web.me.com/abernathybland <---website yo.




and look look! prints of the Carousel Series. 


 CLICK HERE TO PICK YOUR HORSE OUT. 

series is made from ink.fabric.and thread.

The originals have found homes, but the prints are beautiful.



Approximate size 15" x 23" <-- they are torn paper.

I FOUND A PRINTER THAT SORT OF RULES,  AND WHEN I'M DONE ORDERING THESE AND HE ACES IT, I WILL BROADCAST HIS COMPANY TO EVERYONE.

SO.

Email abernathy.parade@gmail.com with what you would like. 



The Carousel Series prints will be 95.00 each. 






If you want another piece you see. ask. I will tell you how much. :)

Reasons you need a horse:

Christmas is coming for one. and when you get one of these you will be pleased as punch.

 I will love you

my mom will love you

my friends will love you.

they all come with magical powers.



pssst, you can give one to someone. that would be sweet.

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What? I had a caramel brulee latte and seasonal stuff gets me all freaked!





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ANIMALS.

Today I tried a building material that some taxidermists use.

I said TAXIDERMISTS.

I used it once on a set for a show. And I think it can kick my game up a little.

I had to wear gloves and mix two parts together. The consistency is like cement.


And it is a race against time until it starts to set. Which feels like a challenge. and that eggs me on.


But I found myself getting frustrated. and forgetting that new materials have new qualities that I should utilize... and I should stop wishing it acted like clay. because clay already existed. and I didn't need another expensive version of clay.


When the material sets, it gets ridiculously hard.  which explains why some like to use it for recreating wild life... bones.  agh.

Yeah. for real.



Although I build creatures, I am not good with that genre.


Once, I went to that  superstore on the side of the interstate. The one that sells camo everything. camo soap dishes. camo brushes. camo bathing suits.

I was so curious.

Well.




There was a giant bear on the staircase.





Summary: out of body experience.



Anyways. back to the material I was kneading. 

It had a smell to it. 

And nothing about it said " dead animals"   But it was all in my head.

So when it got to me in the mail last week, it sat on a chair for a while, sealed up as it arrived.
No one touched it.
 Just because I needed a second to feel like I could open it.

Trial and error people. I'm still figuring it out.

Anyways. While I deal with my own crazy, get a load of this...

That lamb was mailed to New York, but before she went, she ran amuck in this house.


Ok well... she took up space and occupied a chair.


That's what I thought, until I saw these on my computer. 

Yeah. 

I know.

Tell me about it.

Someone found photobooth.