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Beakman Live!
Oct. 25th, 2008 09:14 pmYou know the children's science TV show, Beakman's World? I got a Beakman's World DVD out of the library last year thinking that Molly might enjoy it. Molly couldn't have cared less about it (she sat in another room and worked on an art project) but Kiera was riveted. Kiera also spotted, months later when we were getting ready for Mayday, a picture of Beakman in a Heart of the Beast Theater flier -- they'd booked him, and he would be doing a performance in October.
The performance was today, and we all went. (Even Molly, who insisted that she'd liked the bits and pieces she'd paid attention to.) It was just Beakman -- on the show, he has a lab rat (a human dressed in an unconvincing rat costume who is, I think, taller than Beakman is) as well as various hyperactive assistants -- plus volunteers recruited from the audience.
At one point, he solicited a father/daughter team, and Molly and Ed got themselves picked. He commented on Molly's head-to-toe orange clothes, asked their names, where Molly goes to school, what she wants to be when she grows up, and what Ed does for a living. Ed said he was a project manager. What kinds of projects? I.T.
Beakman pretended that by "I.T." Ed meant "IT," as in some monster that was probably kept in a closet and referred to by spelling its name because everyone was too terrified of IT to refer to it by name. It was hysterical in part because, well, computers kind of ARE a monster kept in a closet and discussed to in coded terms. IT. He dropped his voice an octave each time he said "IT."
I'm going to have to start asking Ed how IT is doing when he comes home from work.
The demo he had them do involved having Ed sit in a chair and try to stand up while Molly put one hand on his forehead. This kept him in the chair, since you have to shift your center of gravity forward in order to stand up. (He also had to keep his feet on the ground and his hands in his lap.)
Then we walked down to the Midtown Global Market and bought goodies from the Mexican bakery for a snack, and then over to Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore (which is right by the Midtown Global Market). And then we went out for dinner at Sea Salt; it was too cold to eat outside but this is their last weekend until spring.
The performance was today, and we all went. (Even Molly, who insisted that she'd liked the bits and pieces she'd paid attention to.) It was just Beakman -- on the show, he has a lab rat (a human dressed in an unconvincing rat costume who is, I think, taller than Beakman is) as well as various hyperactive assistants -- plus volunteers recruited from the audience.
At one point, he solicited a father/daughter team, and Molly and Ed got themselves picked. He commented on Molly's head-to-toe orange clothes, asked their names, where Molly goes to school, what she wants to be when she grows up, and what Ed does for a living. Ed said he was a project manager. What kinds of projects? I.T.
Beakman pretended that by "I.T." Ed meant "IT," as in some monster that was probably kept in a closet and referred to by spelling its name because everyone was too terrified of IT to refer to it by name. It was hysterical in part because, well, computers kind of ARE a monster kept in a closet and discussed to in coded terms. IT. He dropped his voice an octave each time he said "IT."
I'm going to have to start asking Ed how IT is doing when he comes home from work.
The demo he had them do involved having Ed sit in a chair and try to stand up while Molly put one hand on his forehead. This kept him in the chair, since you have to shift your center of gravity forward in order to stand up. (He also had to keep his feet on the ground and his hands in his lap.)
Then we walked down to the Midtown Global Market and bought goodies from the Mexican bakery for a snack, and then over to Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore (which is right by the Midtown Global Market). And then we went out for dinner at Sea Salt; it was too cold to eat outside but this is their last weekend until spring.
