Spooky Doings 6/25/17

basement bathroom floor plan

The purpose of this blog is to show contractors the floor plan of my basement bathroom that needs to be remodeled.

Sleeping Ugly, Identity Theater

We are back on tour with this play in 2018, with a new cast.  2 of us from the original cast have returned, with 4 new performers.

Performances have included

• 11/20/18 Preschool of the Americas, Battery Park
• 11/19/18 PS 195, Bronx, NY
• 11/20/18 Preschool of America, Battery Park
• 11/27/18 PS 195, Bronx, NY
• 11/29/18 Joseph Belsky House, Brooklyn
• 12/4/18 Regal Heights Rehab, Queens
• 1/10/19 Cooke Academy, Manhattan
• 1/11/19 Westchester School for Special Needs, Yonkers

Prior run

• 6/8/17 Preschool of America
• 6/11/17 Rainbow Preschool
• 6/11/17 El Bario Art Space

What follows is the program of the first incarnation of this play in 2017, along with some photos from then.

review of this play

https://outerstage.wordpress.com/2017/06/16/a-beautiful-sleeping-ugly/

The Identity Theater aspires to have actors with disabilities performing with non-disabled actors.  It also has themes associated with disabilities. Many performances are in institutions that service people with disabilities.  

Photos from Spooky Doings 6/3/17 performance at Triple Crown

Updates for April & May 2017

• Magnet Musical Mixer 5/30/17
• Geezer's improv 5/20/17 PIT Loft
• Filming music video for  my song "Villain Song," Oddfellows Lodge, Saugerties, NY 5/1/17-5/2/17 d Ben Monk; Some stills from the shoot; Rough Cut; Second Cut I'm also producing this video, which is an ongoing project
• "Suddenly Singing" Musical Improv, Triple Crown, 4/11/17, 9 p.m.
• "Geezer: Musical Improv, PIT Loft, 6pm 4/8/17 link to cast photo
• 4/2/17 voiceover recording Mom for "Pup Chronicles" d. Lulu Grey
• article about a movie I'm going to be in http://ivoh.org/creative-block-tackles-depression-puppets-heart/
• Attended JPPCLE (a patent law course)

Link to my ongoing updates blog  This blog serves as an index to my performance related blogs and other materials

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2016 Updates

This was deleted from my ongoing updates blog and moved to its own blog.  The Ongoing updates is a sort of index to my activities and can be found here: Ongoing Updates

News from 2016

past performances

• A Very Merry Indie Holiday Mix-em-up Spectacular, 12/27/16, PIT Theater 7:30pm FB Event Page Images from performance 
• Sketch of New York; Friday 12/16 at 2:45pm; Sunday 12/18 at 2:45pm AND 7:45pm; Monday 12/19 at 7:45pm; Producer's Club, 358 W 44 link to cast photo
• 11/2/16 premier of Tiaffay Episode, Grave Secrets, Investigation Discovery channel; 9pm ET; link to online version https://www.investigationdiscoverygo.com/grave-secrets/secrets-of-the-desert/  performance clip
• "Cobblestone Corridor" episode 102 10/23/16 7:30pm on CPTV (Connecticut Public Broadcasting) clip here Cobblestone Corridor Clip
• "Drinking Habits" Clove Creek Dinner Theater 10/6/16-10/23/16 Cast photo  blog about this show
• Spooky Doings improv performance 10/1/2016 at The Triple Crown photos here
• Cabaret Showdown British Invasion 9/18/16  https://www.facebook.com/events/1800341843544920/
• Randolph Mountain Club Charades, 8/20/16
• Spooky Doings, Team Leprechaun, 8/5/16, Triple Crown Bar, NYC photos from spooky doings performance
• My episode ("Pigeon Bra") of "Mysteries at the Museum" first aired 6/17/16, 9pm EDT on the Travel Channel.   Here are some stills from the show Stills from Pigeon Bra.  More show times are listed at the end of the blog, along with a YouTube link for a paid video showing my episode.
• Vincent Price's rap from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" at The SetNYC, d Pim Shih Music & Film Show 160709
• Beatrix, in "Amalgam II" film by Carlo Labrador
• "A Bad Year for Tomatoes" playing Willa Mae Wilcox at The Clove Creek Dinner Theater 5/5/16-5/22/16 appreciative tweet -- some photos from the show
• Team "Meaningful Touch" d Nikita Burdein, Frank Spitznagel, Miles Lindahl 5/1/16 9pm Magnet Studio Theater
• Mme Paula in "Un Vase à Chinatown" d Jeremy Hung 4/16/16 -- in French performance clip
• Standup, The Set NYC, d Pim Shih 3/22/16 "Politics Music Monologues Show"
• Ladies Sketch Lab, 3/14 (sold out); 3/21 [I had to skip 3/21 due to illness]; 3/28 9pm Magnet Theater d Megan Grey lady sketch show -- Magnet website ; Narrator in "Extraordinary Woman;" Passenger in "Love Train" My blog about the Lady Sketch Lab ; Links to videos of my performances Video of my Lady Sketch Lab excerpts
• Cobblestone Corridor, Episode 102, Health Instructor, d Erik Bloomquist filmed 3/18/16 (This is supposed to air on Connecticut Public Broadcasting in October, 2016)
• Cabaret Showdown, March 13, 7pm, Kraine Theater Cabaret Showdown "Count Down"
• Ms. Helen Ffoliot-ffoulkes "Murder on The Nile," team A, The Alpha NYC, d Billy Peck, 3/10 7pm; 3/11 9pm; 3/12 8pm copy of program
• Personal Story, "Republican Debate Art Show," The Set NYC, d. Pim Shih 2/6/16
• voiceover: reading Narrator & Ahteana for "Atlantis Bearer of Fruit" an audio play d David Speight
• voiceover: reading Maria for "Mad Father Movie" d Dolly Strawberry
• Class show for Improv Level 1 for Experienced Improvisers 1/22/16, Magnet Studio Theater 9pm d Armando Diaz
• Agent Fest 1/12/16 at Paul Michaels the Network
• Cabaret Showdown: Weird Science 1/10/15 7 pm Kraine Theater

Completed performance related courses/events

• Scenework for Musical Improv with Woody Fu, Magnet Training Center 12/1-12/22/16
• Attended SETC 9/10/16-9/11/16
• 10,000 hours improv workshop sponsored by The PIT 7/30/16 http://improv10000hrs.com/
• DCM 18 workshop with Erik Tanouye, UCB NYC 6/22/16
• Camp Magnet 2016 Dave Razowsky, Megan Gray, Jean Villepique, Michael Lutton, Elana Fishbein, Ed Herbstman, Louis Kornfeld, Rachel Hamilton, Hanna Chase 6/2/16-6/5/16 photos of me on stage at Camp Magnet Camp Photo
• Musical Improv Level 1 (retaking), Nikita Burdein and Frank Spitznagel 3/12/16-5/1/16 The Magnet Theater
• Basic Harmony for Musical Improvisors with Dan Reitz link to class photo
• "Playing it Real" with Gavin Speiller, Improv Elective, UCB NYC Training Center 4/5-12/16
• 48th Street Exercise, with Gary Austin, at Artistic New Directions (AND) 4/1/16
  Lady Sketch Lab, The Magnet Theater, team taught Lady Sketch Lab cast photo
• Improv Level 1 for experienced improvisers with Armando Diaz and Andy Moscowitz, The Magnet Theater

Some travel pix

http://annebarschall.blogspot.com/2016/11/travel-pix.html

Law related courses:

• 11/17/18 NYIPLA One-day Program, Princeton Club, NYC
• 10/28/16 Cybersecurity: What Lawyers and Business Leaders Need to Know, Columbia Law School
• 10/25/16 IIPS Meeting -- talks by Hetal Kushwaha of Marks & Clerk, Canada and Roosevelt V Segarra of Myers Wolin, NYC -- both on the topioc of patentability of computer software
• 10/18/16 ENYIPLA Dinner Meeting -- talk by Mel Garner of  Leason Ellis LLP on the topic of Trade Secret Practice and Advice for the Practitioner
• Ethical Considerations in Patent and Trademark Practice, IIPS 9/20/16
• PTAB tips and tricks, sponsored by NYIPLA 6/8/16 at https://www.skadden.com/ NYC
• JPPCLE, NYC 4/21/16

Misguided officials advocating against family bed

So it's happening again.  Misguided government officials in Middletown, PA are concluding that, because a mom rolled over on her baby and suffocated the baby, when the mom was high (alcohol and marijuana), that no moms should sleep with their babies.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mother-charged-involuntary-manslaughter-accidentally-220454550.html

I saw something similar in New York City back in 2015, which I blogged about then.

http://annebarschall.blogspot.com/2015/05/nyc-public-health-campaign-to-stop-moms.html


If a mom kills her kids when driving drunk, should we conclude that no moms should ever drive their kids? NO!

Similarly, if a mom kills her kid in bed, when high that doesn't mean that no moms should sleep with their kids? No.

I am a fervent believer in the family bed.  The family bed facilitates breast feeding, which dramatically improves the health of moms and babies both.  The family bed reduces or eliminates SIDS, probably because proximity to mom helps babies synchronize their breathing.

I once read an article about a family in the jungle in Indonesia.  They lived in a rude hut in primitive conditions.  They slept on the floor with the baby between them.  They woke up one night, hearing the baby crying and found the baby's arm down the gullet of a brown snake.

They were able to save the baby because they were right there at the time.

This is the kind of environment we evolved in -- on rife with predators.  Children instinctively need to sleep with their parents at night, because sleeping alone in the wild is dangerous.  Children instinctively fear monsters at night, because of ancestral memories of living where there were in fact monsters who ate children everywhere.

Given children's instinctive fear of monsters and sleeping alone, it is cruel and inhuman to make them sleep alone.

Let's not punish all moms and children because this one was drinking and using marijuana.

Also, please read Dr. William Sears' Book Nighttime Parenting for more information.

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Addendum: Article in LA Times http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-reiss-sleep-alone-20170324-story.html