Hi there! I’m in another show, and I think this one is really pretty good. It’s called The Subject Was Roses, and it’s at The Country Playhouse, out in Town and Country Village. (Map) Here’s the schedule:

The Subject Was Roses

By Frank D. Gilroy
Directed by Barbara Lasater

Starring:
Lisa Schofield
Bob Maddox
Raygan Kelly

Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM
August 24th through September 8th, 2007

Here’s the page on it on Artshound.

Tickets are $10. They may have student prices, I’m not sure. I’m also not sure if I get comps, or how many, but I’ll find out soon, so feel free to ask me about it if you want to come but need comps.

Click here to buy tickets in advance.

A note on finding the theater:
I don’t recommend following the directions Google Maps offers due to construction. The easiest way I have found to get there seems to be to take Memorial all the way out to Beltway 8 and take a right at the feeder road. Go about three blocks until you see a smallish street on your right called Queensbury. Take a right there, and go straight until you see the theater on your right.

Bumper Sticker Ideas

Originally uploaded by raygan.

These are some ideas I had for bumper stickers, generated with the bumper sticker templates at MakeStickers.com. I haven’t decided which to have printed and put on my new (used) Montero, which has been dubbed The Hovertank.

Haven’t been blogging in a while, but I’m going to start again. Here are some photos from what I’ve been up to lately:

I went to Six Flags Fiesta Texas with Jamie

I also visited a cool Wax Museum while I was there, and took some cool photos.

Also I went camping with Jamie, Seeba, and Heather.

So yeah, I’ve been having a great time lately.

Just so you all know, this is the schedule for my upcoming show.

The Boys Next Door

A Play in Two Acts by Tom Griffin
University of Houston School of Theatre
Jose Quintero Theatre Lab

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Friday, March 2nd at 8:00 pm

Saturday, March 3rd at 8:00 pm

Sunday, March 4th at 8:00 pm

Monday, March 5th at 8:00 pm

Don’t ever… EVER Google your name.

I thought I had a pretty unusual and original first name. After all, my parents invented the spelling themselves! But here it turns out I’m not the only Raygan with a blog! Look at this:

Raygan Swan - IndyStar.com
All about Raygan

Single, twenty-something Indianapolis native Raygan Swan stays on top of what is and what is not. Known for her adventures at INtake Weekly - dumpster diving, boxing, belly dancing, wakeboarding - she’s willing to try anything at least once in the name of a good story.

One thing’s for sure, she’s as diverse, or perhaps random, as they come. She’ll pay $200 for a pair of Rock and Republic designer jeans but loves NASCAR and country music. She works out like a crazy woman five days a week, but consumes McDonalds cheeseburgers with regularity.

Now a reporter at The Indianapolis Star, Swan will blog about her adventures, experiences and sightings from around the city.

I thought for sure I would at least be the most interesting Raygan out there.

But at least for men, Raygan is the definition of manlyness… Isn’t it? Not according to this UrbanDictionary.com entry:

Raygan

A ‘raygan’ is an individual who dresses and acts in a homosexual manner. The individual may or may not actually be a queer but everyone thinks they are anyway cos of their mannerisms and dress sense e.g. their bazzer, blazers and light blue addidas trackers. Even though uv seen this person scoring with members of the opposite sex u still have an inkling that theyd wudnt half mind u giving to d in the bum

Look and that ‘Raygan’ looking mother f£*&^r over there

That’s it. I give up on the internet.

If you know me at all, you know that I love space stuff, and crazy people doing stupid things. That’s why I love this news story. Thanks New York Times!

Astronaut Is Charged With Kidnapping

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — An astronaut drove 900 miles and donned a disguise to confront a woman she believed was her rival for the affections of a space shuttle pilot, police said. She was arrested Monday and charged with attempted kidnapping and other counts.

U.S. Navy Capt. Lisa Nowak, 43, who flew last July on a shuttle mission to the international space station, was also charged with attempted vehicle burglary with battery, destruction of evidence and battery. She was denied bail.

Police said Nowak drove from her home in Houston to the Orlando International Airport to confront Colleen Shipman.

Nowak believed Shipman was romantically involved with Navy Cmdr. William Oefelein, a pilot during space shuttle Discovery’s trip to the space station last December, police said.

Nowak told police that her relationship with Oefelein was ”more than a working relationship but less than a romantic relationship,” according to an arrest affidavit. Police officers recovered a love letter to Oefelein in her car.

NASA spokesman James Hartsfield in Houston said that, as of Monday, Nowak’s status with the astronaut corps remained unchanged.

”What will happen beyond that, I will not speculate,” he said.

Hartsfield said he couldn’t recall the last time an astronaut was arrested and said there were no rules against fraternizing among astronauts.

When she found out that Shipman was flying to Orlando from Houston, Nowak decided to confront her, according to the arrest affidavit. Nowak raced from Houston to Orlando wearing diapers so she wouldn’t have to stop to urinate, authorities said.

Astronauts wear diapers during launch and re-entry.

(This was my favorite line in this story. Is this one sentence paragraph attempting to explain Nowak’s diaper wearing? “Oh, Astronauts wear diapers all the time, it’s really not all that weird.”
Well, read on…)

Dressed in a wig and a trench coat, Nowak boarded an airport bus that Shipman took to her car in an airport parking lot. Shipman told police she noticed someone following her, hurried inside the car and locked the doors, according to the arrest affidavit.

Nowak rapped on the window, tried to open the car door and asked for a ride. Shipman refused but rolled down the car window a few inches when Nowak started crying. Nowak then sprayed a chemical into Shipman’s car, the affidavit said.

Shipman drove to the parking lot booth, and the police were called.

During a check of the parking lot, an officer followed Nowak and watched her throw away a bag containing the wig and BB gun. They also found a steel mallet, a 4-inch folding knife, rubber tubing, $600 and garbage bags inside a bag Nowak was carrying when she was arrested, authorities said.

Inside Nowak’s vehicle, which was parked at a nearby motel, authorities uncovered a pepper spray package, an unused BB-gun cartridge, latex gloves and e-mails between Shipman and Oefelein. They also found a letter ”that indicated how much Mrs. Nowak loved Mr. Oefelein,” an opened package for a buck knife, Shipman’s home address and hand written directions to the address, the arrest affidavit said.

Police said Nowak told them that she only wanted to scare Shipman into talking to her about her relationship with Oefelein and didn’t want to harm her physically.

”If you were just going to talk to someone, I don’t know that you would need a wig, a trench coat, an air cartridge BB gun and pepper spray,” said Sgt. Barbara Jones, a spokeswoman for the Orlando Police Department. ”It’s just really a very sad case. … Now she ends up finding herself on the other side of the law with some very serious charges.”

If convicted of attempted kidnapping, Nowak could face a maximum of life in prison.

It was not immediately known whether Nowak had an attorney.

Oefelein and Shipman did not immediately return phone messages Monday night.

According to NASA’s official biography, Nowak is married with three children. During her 13-day mission in July she operated the robotic arm during three spacewalks.

Oefelein is unmarried. He piloted the space shuttle Discovery in December. He has two children, according to a NASA biography.

Nowak and Oefelein were both first-time fliers during their shuttle missions last year. They trained together but never flew together.

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Associated Press writers Kelli Kennedy and Jessica Gresko in Miami contributed to this report.
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Until now most of you have been accessing this site from the url raygan.wordpress.com, but as of today you can change your bookmarks to a new url, raygankelly.com. The old URL still redirects to this new one, but using the new url will save you a couple of seconds of load time, and should be easier to remember.

Not that it probably matters to anybody.  But it’s neat.

RayganKelly.com!

I just got around to copying all the photos off of my cameraphone and uploading the interesting ones to Flickr, and I thought I’d share the results.

Here’s a link to the Flickr photoset if you’d like to view them there.