Planning My Big Adventure
One week from today, Lee Tergesen and Dean Winters will be performing a stage reading of a Tom Fontana play called "Screenplay By Stalin" at the Williamstown (MA) Theatre Festival. As I've mentioned on Twitter and at leeloni, I am going to be travelling there to see it, alongside some other Lee Peeps. So, I've been super-excited lately!
I'm sure it's going to be worth it, but it's going to be a bit of an adventure to get there. I'm arriving in Massachusetts Thursday afternoon via a 13-hour train ride from Toledo, Ohio that departs at 3:20 AM Thursday morning (YES, that's AM, folks). My home in Michigan is about an hour and 20 minutes away from the Toledo station, and it's still unclear exactly who in my family drew the short straw of driving me there. Heh.
Of course, there's then another 13-hour train ride on Saturday to return home again.
But whenever I feel a little nervous about the whole thing, I remind myself of one of my favorite lines in the 1970s AU Oz Magi story that pride_of_erin wrote for me for last Christmas:
It feels like an adventure, and sadly enough [Toby] doesn’t think he’s ever had one of those.
... because, that's me! I think it's time I had an adventure, and I figure a LeeFest is as good a time as any to have one.
(To be clear, though, it won't involve the sex, drugs, and disco music that Toby experienced in Erin's story.) (At least, I don't think so.) (But who knows what really goes on during these LeeFests?) (I guess I'll find out!)
I'm going to bring my copy of the script for "The Tip" episode of Oz that I bought last year, and hopefully I'll be able to get Lee and/or Tom and/or Dean to autograph it. AND I also made a special little gift for Lee that I'd like to pass along at some point, assuming that I can get over my fear that he'll think it's weird. AND I'm also hoping for an opportunity to get to the bottom of those strange Missing OZ Episodes/Season 7 rumors (MURPHY NUDE SCENE).
It's entirely possible, though, that I'll just melt into a giant puddle of goo and spend the whole time drooling like an idiot, thereby rendering all my plans irrelevant. ;)
I'm sure it's going to be worth it, but it's going to be a bit of an adventure to get there. I'm arriving in Massachusetts Thursday afternoon via a 13-hour train ride from Toledo, Ohio that departs at 3:20 AM Thursday morning (YES, that's AM, folks). My home in Michigan is about an hour and 20 minutes away from the Toledo station, and it's still unclear exactly who in my family drew the short straw of driving me there. Heh.
Of course, there's then another 13-hour train ride on Saturday to return home again.
But whenever I feel a little nervous about the whole thing, I remind myself of one of my favorite lines in the 1970s AU Oz Magi story that pride_of_erin wrote for me for last Christmas:
It feels like an adventure, and sadly enough [Toby] doesn’t think he’s ever had one of those.
... because, that's me! I think it's time I had an adventure, and I figure a LeeFest is as good a time as any to have one.
(To be clear, though, it won't involve the sex, drugs, and disco music that Toby experienced in Erin's story.) (At least, I don't think so.) (But who knows what really goes on during these LeeFests?) (I guess I'll find out!)
I'm going to bring my copy of the script for "The Tip" episode of Oz that I bought last year, and hopefully I'll be able to get Lee and/or Tom and/or Dean to autograph it. AND I also made a special little gift for Lee that I'd like to pass along at some point, assuming that I can get over my fear that he'll think it's weird. AND I'm also hoping for an opportunity to get to the bottom of those strange Missing OZ Episodes/Season 7 rumors (MURPHY NUDE SCENE).
It's entirely possible, though, that I'll just melt into a giant puddle of goo and spend the whole time drooling like an idiot, thereby rendering all my plans irrelevant. ;)