Puppet Camp

Tonight is the second night of Puppet Camp.

Every year I perform a huge puppet show with a collective of people on the night of the Winter Solstice, which is Decemeber 21st. We put it on in an old church, in the middle of the longest night of the year and hundreds of people come without much more than word of mouth to remind people about it. It takes several weeks of very intense work to get ready and tonight we are meeting at my house to talk about the Hurricane Katrina piece. We try to represent each season with four different stories in the show. Usually, at least one of them is something taken from the past year and usually has something to do with politics. We often talk for long amounts of time on this segment because we always want to portray an honest, but hopeful image. The middle of December is a dark and dreary time, so we like to think of this as an offering to our community of hope and happiness. Last year the amazing live band ended the show with "We Are the Champions" and everyone was on their feet singing as loud as they could. There's nothing to kick winter blues like an old church filled with people singing rock n' roll songs in the middle of the night!

I need to tend to the basement before everyone comes over. It is still in disarray from my Halloween projects. I made my twin, three-year old friends a rat and a bat costume. I tried to get them to be garden nomes, but they looked pretty cute, nontheless.