The Poor Players are currently presenting Macbeth.
Since the play opens with the famous “Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble” scene it seems especially appropriate to catch the show on Halloween (7pm, 2804 Adams Ave).
And since Halloween falls on a Sunday this year it also seems appropriate to sacrifice a few cats in the name of the dark lord of the abyss (after the show of course).

I underestimated the amount of bandwidth one picture posted on Fark would demand. As a consequence I’ve used up all of the bandwidth that freeunixhost.com allows and they’ve shut down tonemilazzo.com for the rest of the month.

Unless the asshole that I’m buying the server from gets back to me sometime this month with a time and place for me to pick it up (No, I haven’t given him any money yet) then I won’t have a site until November.
Normally this wouldn’t be a serious problem but I’m still looking for work as a web developer and what am I going to show? A homepage that’s 404 and so-then.org’s broken down database?

There’s no point in looking for work in the short-term and judging by what I saw at the job fair this morning there might not be any point in looking in the long-term either. I keep trying to think of some other field to get into but the only career that seems to have any security is “independently wealthy dilettante”.

The task:
Photoshop this kid on her tractor



Turning the tractor and hat blue was the hard part.

… here is the shaded tattoo:

I call Protocol Marketing every week to see if things had turned around and there was some work for me to do.
Today the boss told me to not call anymore. I’ll stop by the office and empty my desk tomorrow.
Time to go to Best Buy.

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William Shatner’s Has Been
A guy who’s stared in at least three TV series, numerous movies, written numerous published novels and recorded this album can’t seriously call himself a “has been” and the tongue in cheek nature of this CD should be obvious to anyone who’d consider picking it up.
Produced by Ben Folds (a long time Shatner devotee who’s worked with Shatner before on Ben’s Fear of Pop and the Priceline commercials) who’s worked on Shatners strength, his staggered way of speaking. Will doesn’t sing on any of these tracks, I guess you’d call it “spoken word set to music”.
The disc opens with a cover of Pulp’s Common People with Joe Jackson, but the real gems are in the original tracks, mostly written by Shatner himself.
You’ll have Time is a little reminder that you’re all going to die.
What Have You Done? a moving, a cappella track about the death of his wife.
Real, with Brad Paisley, an appeal to the fans who have difficulty distinguishing fantasy from reality.
I Can’t Get Behind That a three minute rant about things that the little problems that seem so important to the self-obsessed with Henry Rollins, of course . But my favorite is the title track where Shatner gets to point the finger at all of his couch-potato critics.
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I also got the Alladin and Reform School Girls DVDs. I plan on watching these back to back.

Not that they make a big secret of the fact that their campus used to belong to the Point Loma Theosophical Society, but it’d sound more mysterious if they did.
I’ve begun researching historical oddities of San Diego as source material for a novel. This is the first field trip I’ve taken along these lines.
The Theosophical Society was a predecessor to modern “New Agers”. They subscribed to a mish-mash of ancient Occidental and Oriental beliefs. In 1896 the Society purchased a parcel of land in Point Loma and set up a school…

…called the Raja Yoga School … for the primary grades, but was later expanded to reach graduate levels. Living quarters for 500 were constructed as well as “a refectory, bakery, stables, carpenter shop, smithy, machine shop, and facilities for the production of textiles and the tailoring of clothing.”
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The Theosophists on Point Loma or “Lomaland” as it was often called, flourished until the late 1920s. With the death of Madame Tingley [their leader] in 1929, and the fall of the stock market the same year, the Lomaland community began to decline.

Eventually, the property fell into the hands of Pasadena Collage for thier new operations.
I was surprised how open the Point Loma Nazarene University (a Catholic school) was about the origins of their campus. Theosophy being a competing belief system and all, but then again Theosophy is a failed (and slightly wacky) belief system…

Most of the campus is new. And most of the older building are just older buildings. With one exception; Mieras Hall.

Built in 1901 it is an octagon shaped building with a rotunda room in the center. Each of the eight walls contains three amethyst-colored windows and skylights at the base of the dome.

The Egg shaped window at the top and the odd spiral staircase on the outside that leads to the roof give me ideas for how this building might have been used for ritual purposes in a Theosophical attempt to commune with the Elder Gods.
Or maybe something more original…

I spent some time putting together an animated gif for a new avatar, but the file is too big for Livejournal.
Too bad.