Fishzilla considers all of her options. So far, it’s all belly-up. Long enough to fin-drag the other way in a 4-day migration toward better waters, my friend.

If Fishzilla had created an OKC profile, which I’m not saying she did, these would be some of the messages she’s gotten so far… OKC is a bleak and dismal place. How will a snakeheaded fish ever find love?

What can I say, she’s a well-rounded fish who knows what she wants…

My brother, who is phenomenally talented and astute, has contributed to Fishzilla’s happiness and well-being / my procrastination and inability to focus, by writing a possible Fishzilla About Me:

hey so im new to this online thing but all my friends and surviving children are doing it so i thought why not! lol !

heres me relaxn by the pool. snarf snarf! lol

Stop the presses. This shit is AMAZING.

Meet my new bestie. Her name is Fishzilla. She’s a Snakehead Fish. “Tell me your story, Snakeheaded Fish,” you say. “What’s your deal?” “Well,” she replies, “I have sharp, shark-like teeth; an appetite for for blood; can grow to over three feet in length; can lay up to 75,000 eggs a year; and can even breathe and migrate on land, and I search for other bodies of water for up to four days at a time through the use of a primitive breathing organ.” I was doing research for a project, but now the only project that matters is one in which I do Fishzilla a favor and create her an OKCupid Profile.

#justanotherworkdayintheAdobeCompound

My morning view from my small courtyard work table:

Adobe palace! It’s all mine!

So, the whole reason I’m in New Mexico is because FUSION Theatre asked me to write a one-act children’s musical (yes, you heard that correctly), based on the children’s e-book PRINCESS MARISOL AND THE MOON-THIEVES by Alex Paramo.

After some time, I wrapped my head around the fact that a children’s musical generally does NOT include: 1) basement-dwelling sharks, 2) drag queens, 3) grotesque acts of vengeance, 4) an askew historical perspective on queerness, 5) characters who explode and/or eat each other. And then I wrote my adaptation sans all of these elements, but avec lyrics, and now FUSION is touring it around Albuquerque.

First rehearsal was last night. Musical director (and music-writer) Keith Sanchez teaches the opening song Rat With Ambition to the cast.

If there were a list of people who did not know how to take the eggs out of a cage while an agitated New Mexican rooster was stalking back and forth making crazy rooster eyes, I would also be on that list. But I bet a bunch of these other ladies would not be. Fuck yeah gender parity! Fuck yeah The Kilroys.