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                      The best thing to see when your blue
                                        
The roads around Orlando destroy your soul [1]. By the time we got back to
the resort, the bickering between Bunny and me over driving had driven me
close to a breakdown. I came very close to skipping out on Blue Man Group [2]
but a few minutes of meditative silence gave me the resolve to brave the non-
Euclidean Orlando roads once more (odd, since I wasn't the one driving).

In fact, until we were sitting in our seats waiting for the show to start, I
was very close to losing it (I'm telling you, the roads around Orlando are
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeviiiiiilllll).

[Boy did I feel blue going in] [3]
 

And I'm glad I went.

It's very hard to describe the Blue Man Group experience. It's part concert
(bring ear plugs, or ask one of the ushers for ear plugs—there's a ton of
drumming), part performance art, part comedy, part social commentary and part
audience participation. The energy level is high and it's just this …
incredible experience that you have to … um … experience live in order to
“get” it.

The entire trip, the sucking vortex of ill-marked, multiply-named, non-
Euclidean roadways designed by a disgruntled parking lot architect that is
Orlando, the “eh” experience of the Salvador Dali Museum [4], the loudness of
The Hard Rock Cafe [5] (where Bunny and I ate dinner after The Blue Man Group
it was next door and still open), everything, was worth it just to see The
Blue Man Group.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2010/06/25.1
[2] http://www.blueman.com/tickets/orlando
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2010/06/26/bmg.jpg
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2010/06/26.1
[5] http://www.hardrock.com/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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