One Day at The PNE...
As I've been working around the PNE on AC/DC I haven't had time to check it out...Not that there's much to see. The fairs the same since the 80's. Except for a few new little shows it's The Superdogs ( which I've worked al the past years before someone senior realised what a great gig the HE position was and scoped it this season ) I'm O.k. it's fair. That's how seniority works. Plus, I always end up not paying enough taxes when I work that gig...And after three and Half months of Work Les Mis I didn't really want a show.
So I thought I might visit the PNE as a spectator... Eat some bad food, watch the dog show, I went because one of the guys needed a local t-shirt for one of the touring crew with The Gypsy Kings.. And I'm trying to get our bug out there with the touring guys... It would be fun to see a shirt come back on the QET stage some day being worn by a road guy. It's kind of a message in a bottle feeling... knowing the Shirts I had made got out there and went all over the world with a bunch of people. Oddly enough every tech in the city seemed to be at the PNE with they're significant other. So I ran into piles of guys from the AC/DC show... all of them asking when cheques were due and if there was other work Avail.
Admittedly I also went to go chat up the russian girls, who were manning the Russia house booth, near the Kaboom show... ( one of those dance, video, fireworks shows that sorta has a theme.. but very watered down as not to offend anyone. ) Sure they smoke like chimney's but russian girls are the so hot.. Almost all the ones I've met seem to have that slavic super model look to them. Tall, Slim, highly symmetrical, with creamy non sunburnt skin, shinny eyes and apple fresh faces.
For all I know those are the only ones they let out of the country still. I swear even back when it was a communist nation, they were like the sexiest exotic Russian propaganda for boys like me who read playboy and watched James Bond movies. During Expo 86 they were in town in force, filling the city with sexy slavic girls. The Russians all seemed to move around the fair like Gymnasts and ballerinas, constantly shadowed by huge, dark, slavic bodyguards making sure they didn't defect.
The best thing about them really is their accents, they could stand there and talk about russian samovars, hockey, olympics even just recite the Dictionary. and I would still just feel like I was in a cold war spy movie, right before things got sexy and/or dangerous.
Sadly they were not staffing the booth that day....
Outside of that... I had a bison burger.. with a few drinks in the beer garden while chatting with the new techs I met on AC/DC... Mini- doughnuts and deep fried oreo cookies while I filled out my PNE Prize home tickets...
I have to win one day...
As I've been working around the PNE on AC/DC I haven't had time to check it out...Not that there's much to see. The fairs the same since the 80's. Except for a few new little shows it's The Superdogs ( which I've worked al the past years before someone senior realised what a great gig the HE position was and scoped it this season ) I'm O.k. it's fair. That's how seniority works. Plus, I always end up not paying enough taxes when I work that gig...And after three and Half months of Work Les Mis I didn't really want a show.
So I thought I might visit the PNE as a spectator... Eat some bad food, watch the dog show, I went because one of the guys needed a local t-shirt for one of the touring crew with The Gypsy Kings.. And I'm trying to get our bug out there with the touring guys... It would be fun to see a shirt come back on the QET stage some day being worn by a road guy. It's kind of a message in a bottle feeling... knowing the Shirts I had made got out there and went all over the world with a bunch of people. Oddly enough every tech in the city seemed to be at the PNE with they're significant other. So I ran into piles of guys from the AC/DC show... all of them asking when cheques were due and if there was other work Avail.
Admittedly I also went to go chat up the russian girls, who were manning the Russia house booth, near the Kaboom show... ( one of those dance, video, fireworks shows that sorta has a theme.. but very watered down as not to offend anyone. ) Sure they smoke like chimney's but russian girls are the so hot.. Almost all the ones I've met seem to have that slavic super model look to them. Tall, Slim, highly symmetrical, with creamy non sunburnt skin, shinny eyes and apple fresh faces.
For all I know those are the only ones they let out of the country still. I swear even back when it was a communist nation, they were like the sexiest exotic Russian propaganda for boys like me who read playboy and watched James Bond movies. During Expo 86 they were in town in force, filling the city with sexy slavic girls. The Russians all seemed to move around the fair like Gymnasts and ballerinas, constantly shadowed by huge, dark, slavic bodyguards making sure they didn't defect.
The best thing about them really is their accents, they could stand there and talk about russian samovars, hockey, olympics even just recite the Dictionary. and I would still just feel like I was in a cold war spy movie, right before things got sexy and/or dangerous.
Sadly they were not staffing the booth that day....
Outside of that... I had a bison burger.. with a few drinks in the beer garden while chatting with the new techs I met on AC/DC... Mini- doughnuts and deep fried oreo cookies while I filled out my PNE Prize home tickets...
I have to win one day...