The creative folks promoting Christopher Nolan's upcoming The Dark Knight are having a fun viral marketing campaign for Halloween. The Joker sent out his clowns all over the country on a scavenger hunt. "The Only Sensible Way to Live in this World is Without Rules." The film is out next summer, but the teaser trailer is here.
I was going to dress as Vincent Van Gogh today at work, but, complicated back story, I ended up going as a hippie. Ugh. My colleagues weren't that into it. (One of them I dubbed "The Ghost of Ann Taylor Loft".) There was a creative girl, our new customer service coordinator, who dressed as a zombie prom queen. I admired her pluck (if not her smell).
Tamburlaine last night at the Shakespeare Theater Company was incredible. Avery Brooks, Commander Sisko himself, was a visceral force on stage. Hilariously, the director came on near the end of the second act to inform us that a stage chariot wasn't working. "The noises you're hearing are it stuck in the ceiling," he mealymouthed. Every production now has an obligatory Spinal Tap moment:
Anyway, so we waited until the cast thundered out of a huge door lead by three chained guys on their hands and knees. I thought to myself...why didn't they just do this in the first place? That looks pretty wild.
