xiphias | So, Purim.

Purim was a lot of fun, despite the fact that Lis was sick and stayed home asleep.

Let me see: for our Purim schpeil, because people were sick, we had to do last-minute re-casting of Achashverosh, Haman, Chris Crocker, the narrator, Esther, and Julius Caesar. However, the play went off BRILLIANTLY -- the edits which I made since our performance on Sunday, which got a rather lukewarm reception, seem to have worked well.

See, here's the way that I go about making a funny play. Attempt to make a funny play, perform it, then cut out every line that doesn't get a laugh.

The play went from twelve script pages to ten, and from a running time of fifteen minutes to ten minutes.

I'll probably post a "final performance script" at some point.

Charlie's Hillary Clinton costume was AMAZING. He's got blond hair and fair skin, and he showed up in a black suit jacket, white shirt, black pants, and a strand of pearls. He looked perfect.

I also brought a few bottles of booze to share around -- I brought some calvados (French apple brandy), absinthe, overproof bourbon, and Sailor Jerry's spiced rum. All of them were very popular. And I baked hamentashen, which were also well-received -- I heard at least one person express shock that they were poppyseed hamentashen, but good.