EXTERMINATE!!!

The Army will be sending these to Iraq in April or May of this year:

It’s a robot. An armed robot.

It’s called the SWORDS, short for Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection System, and (get this) was a joint development project between the Army and Foster-Miller, a robotics firm bought in November by QinetiQ Group PLC—which is a partnership between the British Ministry of Defence and the Washington holding company The Carlyle Group.

Yes, that’s right: this Carlyle Group, the subject of a number of particularly juicy conspiracy theories, with the verifiable membership of George Bush Sr., James Baker, John Major, and some fairly disturbing connections to the Bin Laden family.

Anyone else scared yet?

EXTERMINATE!!!

The Army will be sending these to Iraq in April or May of this year:

It’s a robot. An armed robot.

It’s called the SWORDS, short for Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection System, and (get this) was a joint development project between the Army and Foster-Miller, a robotics firm bought in November by QinetiQ Group PLC—which is a partnership between the British Ministry of Defence and the Washington holding company The Carlyle Group.

Yes, that’s right: this Carlyle Group, the subject of a number of particularly juicy conspiracy theories, with the verifiable membership of George Bush Sr., James Baker, John Major, and some fairly disturbing connections to the Bin Laden family.

Anyone else scared yet?

Gearing up….

So and I had our meeting with the E.D. yesterday, and it went phenominally well. We were expecting a long series of hoops to jump through, but Himself was so excited by the pitch we gave him that before we had even sat down for lunch, he was asking us for our preferences of stages at the site.

w00t, as the hip kids say.

We still need to perform the first 10 minutes of it during the auditions, so he can, in his words, “gauge groundling reactions”–and I suspect so that he can confirm that the performance is as good as the pitch was, but even through the cloud of pessimism through which I was viewing the entire proceedings, the whole thing very much had the ring of inevitability to it. Crossed fingers and all that.

We’re not actually doing the “Men of the Free Companies” concept that I had originally spoken of….we had two cast members flake, replaced them, and then had another two flake as well. Grr. Rather than go into this meeting pitching a show that I wasn’t 100% sure would come together, , and myself decided to go with a small (4-piece) show. We invited to join as our fourth, and I dug up a pre-existing show that had run at the NJ Faire. I’m very pleased with the current group, and the show, quite simply, ROCKS ON TOAST.

The Men of the Free Companies are Dead….Long Live BARD’S BOUTS.