Nerdfighters Gazette

Today I got to preview a stage play called The Global Lovers, part of the 2010 Cincinnati Fringe Festival.  Cincinnati Fringe Festival is a twelve day festival of Performance, Art, Film, and Music in down town Cincinnati. The Festival starts tomorrow, June 1, at 6PM with the CityBeat Fringe Kickoff. $5 is all it takes to get into the party tomorrow night. Tickets for performances cost $12 for any single performance, $60 for a six performance pass, and $200 for a full pass that will get you into any and every performance in the festival. For More information and tickets, visit www.cincyfringe.com

So now on to the one performance I got a chance to see. The Global Lovers was a poetic drama about sex-slavery. It was what I would consider intense and deep. However, it was neither vulgar nor obscene. Overall I enjoyed the performance. The Actresses in this play (the whole cast was female) seemed to really be in touch with their characters, from the little girl growing up in her Kentucky home to the girl who had been sold into the trade so that her parents could have the money to get the things that they needed. The local newspaper summed it up pretty well in saying that it is “weird, in a good way.” The message in the play is a deep one, along with much of the dialog. It is a show that will stay in your mind, sticking out as good, and should probably not be seen by small children, they wouldn’t understand most of it anyway… All-in-all it is an amazing show and I encourage anyone who can make it to Cincinnati to go see it for themselves. Show dates for The Global Lovers are June 4, 5, 9, 11, 12. for more information and to purchase tickets visit www.cincyfringe.com/the-global-lovers.

-David Liles

Look deep down where true feelings lie
Then here my sound and see me walk by
Know that I have looked inside too
And then get this feeling and look inside you
A feeling that squeezes a feeling that yerns
A feeling that pleases, yet a feeling that burns
A feeling a poem’s the only way to convey
True feelings which in the heart cannot stay
Poetry seems to be the one source
From which feelings can come and not stray off course
And now for the 7th and penultimate time
I will end this couplette with an int’resting rhyme.
But I must say, before my adieu
That I most profoundly can’t not love you.

There is a place where nerds can unite

And in this place world suck they do fight.

They play, they laugh, in good works rejoice

And in times of need they speak with one voice.

They know who they are. They know where they stand.

When near or when far, they stand hand in hand.

They are intelligent, in layman’s terms smart.

and they do like reading, and music, and art

one man hath helped so much for their cause

and for this man we do now give applause.

This place where we gather? Nerdfighters.com

we beg get well soon great ningmaster Tom.

Let love be urged

And loneliness purged

Spread happiness all  around

Else off my head,

And lie me dead

And Bury me in the Ground

Meditations of a Psych-Vamp will be a short series of articles written by me, NF Gazette’s residential Psych-Vamp.

To star I would like to point out that a “psych-vamp” is a person that feed off the energy of others. Personally I feed off of people’s energy whether it be positive or negative. Whatever those around me feel, I also feel.

And that brings me to my first story. This is a rather Humorous story that starts out at my local Mexican restaurant. I was with a friend, his wife, and my mother. My friend and his wife, since neither of them was driving, ordered margarita. My friend, Matt, had more to drink of it then his wife and therefore was “buzzed.” After dinner we went to Walmart. At Walmart, Matt and I separated from the women. We went and looked at toys and just messed around a bit. When we left Walmart, I wasn’t quite feeling myself. I felt as though I were buzzed myself (Note: I wasn’t). Just outside the doors as you leave are big blue post about 10″ in diameter and 5.5′ tall.  In my “buzzed” state, my thinking was somewhat impaired and I decided out of nowhere to jump over one of these blue posts. No I did not hit myself in the “nads” but cleared it. From what they tell me though I came very close to being in a lot of pain. Thankfully I didn’t have to drive…