Post-Show Review I Never Got Around To in 2025

 I see that I only wrote about the sets and props and then never got around to much of anything about what happened in the gallery, or even on stage. Briefly, I played a buffoon, and my two compatriots were other iconic fools, and we got yeeted into space by the populace of the world. We tried to grift the Space Buccaneers, who had left for space years before and survived by selling Jell-O to other space dwellers.

 We villains forgot to bring any food, just brought our crypto, and as it was worthless, the buccaneers didn't accept it, but took it anyway, giving some Jell-O which got turned into magic Jell-O by a couple of sprites. In a surprise to everyone, we villains were transformed into the Golden Girls and everyone loved each other in the end. As I did say in another post, no one got their just deserts, which I found usefully punny. 

 I told the audience to let loose on the villains as it was a melodrama, but our audience is too nice, though someone did abscond with my "No Kings" crown. They booed a little. It went by fast with lots of fun and ridiculousness. We had two videos, both embarrassing as they captured our missed lines, bobbled cues, and need for more practice. Sorry we couldn't just post them. I presume the Community TV one did air. I felt somewhat responsible for not staging things better; for unknown reasons I like to place myself at the corner of the stage as if I planned to cut and run when it got too bad. It wasn't that bad.

 

 The Jell-O Art itself was not that ridiculous. there was the one attention-grabbing torso, by Dan Armstrong, who returned to Jell-O Art after several decades with this huge amount of perfectly jiggly flesh, er, gelatin. It was delightful or disgusting, depending on how tall you were perhaps. We get a lot of kids at the show who are about pedestal-height, so they sometimes miss the full effect. 

 

I like to take photos of the artists with their pieces as soon as they get them set up, though some people kind of sneak theirs in. I caught an Old Slug Queen coming back for a second try, this time with an elegant wall hanging. 

The Raining Slug Queen had to attend to give her Benediction, but she has come a few times, once as a substitute and now for her big moment. She has brought Jell-O Art quite a few times and hers was springy. I gave her a Jell-O Slug-on-a-Stick, which she stuck in her piece. 

 

And that is it for useable photos from last year. My own piece never got put together properly as I became enamored of a set of springform pans I got in a free pile and didn't really make the Jell-O Art that would have explained itself. I tried for a young, mature, old kind of progression but it's lost to history. My real piece that I worked on a lot was the wig, which sadly didn't fit quite as well as I planned. Gelatin tends to shrink and it did fit a one point. So it sat on my head but since my whole costume was over the top that didn't really detract.

You all have my apologies but due to a personal situation I won't be able to type for a few days or longer, so I am going to just publish this as better than nothing. I hope to do better this year. 

The show is the Jell-O Art Show, not the Radar Angel Revue or something, and though I love the performance and do my best to make it entertaining, and it did give a lot of joy, the show should be about the art and the artists who make it. I hang out all day to take photos of people as they proudly display their pieces and call themselves Real Artists, and that is what I think should get top billing. So I will work harder this year to make that happen, post-show as quickly as I can. 

Intention matters. Hope to see you there, March 28! Come between No Kings and dinner maybe. We'll have Tacky Food! (No guarantees there will be anything to actually eat, but there's usually something.)