Embassy Theatre Cumberland, Maryland ~ Bachelor Auction 2016 ~ Final Date Pics

Here are last nights lucky winning ladies who bid highest for their respective dates as pictured...

and what great pictures they really are !!!

We had eleven total bachelors and two couples opted out of their final date pictures, so we have nine final pics here from last evening's wonderful auction.

We want to thank all of the fine gentlemen for spending their evening with us at the Embassy Theatre and thank all of our patrons for helping to raise funds so we can continue to offer only the finest art and entertainment available in our area and hope you will keep us in mind as our calendar is getting filled out nicely for a very active 2016 and we hope to see you often !!!

As we are a non-profit we do accept donations and we can write a receipt for your tax deduction and want you to know that every dollar helps keep the doors of business open so that we can keep producing wonderful entertainment for your pleasure.

Donations are accepted in person at the theatre or may be mailed to Embassy Theatre 49 Baltimore Street Cumberland, Maryland 21502

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Anthony Anastasio, 35, is a producer, waiter, bartender, actor and does voice overs. 

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Mark Baker is 69 years of age and a professional stage actor best known for his Tony-nominated title role as Candide. 

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T.J. Coleman is 52 and is president and founder of Pride In My Appearance with the Mineral County Board of Education, as well as president and founder of the Aubrey Stewart Project. (NO PICTURE AVAILABLE)

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Eddie Deezen is 58 years old and is a professional screen actor best known for his work in Grease and Polar Express. 

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Mike Miller, 42, is an Asian chef, as well as a local actor and specialty stage prop designer. 

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Josh Pegg is 22, works in shipping at Pilgrim’s Pride and is a master woodworker and bodybuilder. 

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Bryan Murtha, 25, is a local actor, assistant manager of a local movie theater and a community living assistant for Friends Aware, Inc. 

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Steve Porter is 48 and works as chief compliance and operating officer for Montage Securities. 

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Cory Sheldon, 28, is an IT technician at Chessie Federal Credit Union. 

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Victor Rising is 44 years old and will graduate this May with a degree in biological sciences from FSU. (NO PICTURE AVAILABLE)

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Alex Serrano is in his twenties and a student at FSU with an interest in filmmaking.

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PRE-SHOW PRESS RELEASE

Embassy Theatre’s February 12th spring benefit Bachelor Auction has attracted more than a dozen area sponsors. Fine restaurants in Cumberland, Lavale, Frostburg and Bedford will each entertain a bachelor and his winning bidder on a dinner date for two. As of press time, eight gentlemen will walk the runway starting at 7 pm the Friday before Valentine’s Day.

Anthony Anastasio, 35, is a producer, waiter, bartender, actor and does voice overs. Mark Baker is 69 years of age and a professional stage actor best known for his Tony-nominated title role as Candide. T.J. Coleman is 52 and is president and founder of Pride In My Appearance with the Mineral County Board of Education, as well as president and founder of the Aubrey Stewart Project. Eddie Deezen is 58 years old and is a professional screen actor best known for his work in Grease and Polar Express. Mike Miller, 42, is an Asian chef, as well as a local actor and specialty stage prop designer. Josh Pegg is 22, works in shipping at Pilgrim’s Pride and is a master woodworker and bodybuilder. Bryan Murtha, 25, is a local actor, assistant manager of a local movie theater and a community living assistant for Friends Aware, Inc. Steve Porter is 48 and works as chief compliance and operating officer for Montage Securities. Cory Sheldon, 28, is an IT technician at Chessie Federal Credit Union. Victor Rising is 44 years old and will graduate this May with a degree in biological sciences from FSU. Alex Serrano is in his twenties and a student at FSU with an interest in filmmaking.

Bachelors and their winning dates will enjoy a meal at one of the following establishments: Guiseppe's, Shift, Bunnies, Fratelli, D'Atri, Baltimore St. Grill, City Lights, Ristorante Ottavianni, Geatz’s, Jean Bonnet Tavern, Twisted Trout Martini Bar, and the Golden Eagle. In addition, Mezzos in downtown Cumberland is donating a Girl Gang Happy Hour package to be raffled at the event. Door prizes are also expected.

Local historian Al Feldstein will officiate as auctioneer, as well as music by local DJ The Trucker, with assist by Carrie Wolford and other hostesses. Doors and the bar will open at 5:30 before the show. Tickets are $5 and may be obtained online through Eventbrite.com. In addition, you may reserve a ticket by calling 240 362-7183. Major credit cards are accepted. The Embassy, a renovated performance space for the allied arts, is at 49 Baltimore St. on the pedestrian mall of Cumberland, Maryland.

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Once - Lyric / Poetry - MobiusTripz

I remember hanging out,
Once,
I remember in under 24 hours, you almost "o.d.'ed",
Once.

I remember breaking up,
Once.
I remember speaking since,
Once.

Chorus:

Would you like to be ignored?
Would you rather be adored?
Then act as part of the Board,
Get on board,
as you've got me bored.

I am about living and loving,
Always.
I am the energy from above,
Always.

I am about positive action that's enlightening and lifting,
Always.
I have an ear, shoulder, heart, and soul to lend,
Always.

But

Chorus:

Would you like to be ignored?
Would you rather be adored?
Then act as part of the Board,
Get on board,
as you've got me bored.

I remember hanging out,
Once,
I remember under 24 hrs. U almost o.D.'ed,
Once.

I remember breaking up,
Once.
I remember speaking since,
Once.

I'd like to spin time backward,
Once.
I'd like to be friends again and forever,
Once.

But you want to be angry and hurt ignorant and intolerable and incommunicable,
Always.
You look so deep and black and hurtful with sickening vibes,
Always.

I have a word of wisdom and a word for the wise,
Listen.
Witches are real but not all of them voodoo or Wiccan,
Listen!
The spell they cast only makes them so much more the sick,
Sick.
This ain't my first rodeo dealing with a bitch!
Sick!

I have seen possession and wickedness,
Bitch!
Fake face and incredible pretend facades,
Sick.
Who you think you're dealing with the deep dark black bitch?
Bitch!!!

I am as sweet as honey or I can be pure evil and deep dark black inner wickedness.
Wickedness.

I AM Wickedness.
Wickedness manifest!
Alas!!!

Now I am forever in your head nowcast,
Nothing you can do will remove me,
I, like your conscience,
forever last.

I am more powerful than all the spells so written,
because I have the innate power and specific and focused intention.
I am the thoughts that make up your life... look right now,
In your head forever trapped indelibly imprinted on neurons,
NOW!

I am in your head more and more right now !!!
I am stealing your life and soul and ripping it all out,
You are terrified but no one hears your pleas your screaming blood-curdling shouts,
This madness all inner mental illusion will be real I have no doubt.

I cast you out.
I cast you out.
I cast you out.

A warlock revealed in your demise,
you were cast out.

You believe all this sickness and need such help,
There are so many with huge hearts that will help you out,
You had a poor guide before and were hurt and your pharmaceuticals very mentally intense were super stout,
Possession wicked witch you are I have no doubt.

I have no doubt.
I have no doubt.
No doubt.

I cast you out.

Now Out !!!

So Out !!!

Out !!!

Notes:

Screaming vocals shredder metal songs that may be ideal for some hardcore metal is my gut feeling. Hard core great lyric to put some real-life experience into with the right vocalist to be sung with power.

 

Mexican Lasagna

First in a pyrex casserole dish layer one layer of lasagna noodles.

Next layer ricotta and mozzarella cheese.

Next poor on top Chef Boy Ardee Beef Ravioli and add 1/2 lbs. ground beef with two cans of Ravioli.

Then layer a heavy layer of crushed Nacho Cheese Flavor Doritos at least a half inch thick and then top with a 3/4 inch thick layer of provolone half way through baking the dish.

Baking time is determined by you.

Brown provolone under broiler to finish the dish.

This will make two large pyrex baking dishes of lasagna.

Precook and drain two pounds of top grade ground beef.

Two cans Chef Boy Ardee Ravioli.

One large bag Doritos; Nacho Cheese Flavor.

One box of lasagna noodles.

2 lbs. of mozzarella cheese.

2 lbs. of grated provolone cheese.

2 pints of ricotta cheese.

This will use all of these ingredients when utilized in two equal proportions and baked.

Enjoy !!!

Top with fresh cilantro and fresh salsa !!!

Can make the casserole like a dip into n smaller quantities too !!!

If you have the time make all the ingredients from scratch but seek out to emphasize a bite into this dish that first says I am fine Mexican cuisine and then says wait, I am Italian too and perfectly melded.

Serve with Mexican black bean salad and garlic bread and you have a meal.

On Our Way To MathCounts

My Father is 84 and took a hard fall today. That man is still and always has been so much tougher then me its almost ridiculous. I thank God his fall has this far only proven to be a minor and insignificant incident not even noteworthy. He hit his head hard and I as his son know the truly hard head I myself do indeed have and think I must have inherited that trait from Dad 100% for sure. So I slept 4 hours before MathCounts regional competition today hosted by GMU, my college, and my high school's graduating classes service location. I profusely sweated and woke up in the night too and did so again once I was dressed in my slacks and dress shirt with tie this morning at 430 a.m. and I sweated off and on all day long soaking my upper clothing many times and then drying out in massive chills but otherwise felt impervious. My immune system is getting stronger because I studied some new Dr./scientist written peer reviewed studies confirming that the immune system basically resides in the stomach and is programmed by the DNA and that the microbiome if upset or missing or incomplete in any way can basically make the immune factory a chemical shy if being able to complete its task and therefore come to a screeching halt. Solution: Greek Yogurt plain with live active cultures and stay the hell far away from antibiotics. Well I am definitely stronger overall and this to me proves it as has a few other cold/flu like 24/48 hour illnesses that quickly passed and use to knock me out for a week minimum. So anyway we were both having it handed to us today but still appeared for our volunteer commitments and had a great time anyway. I am very thankful for that as what I witnessed as Dad fell this morning could have almost instantly sent me to the psychiatric ward as I would have been so instantly devastated  if what I thought I had watched happen actually happened. I prayed as I could do nothing more as my large but strong and firm 84 year old father tripped on a carpet leaving krispy kreme, where we got 15 dozen doughnuts and coffee for the wonderful event we both love to share with others, while leaving and he fell in the foyer and hit the wall with his head hard and firm with nearly full speed and momentum and seems thus far to be just fine. I am paying g careful attention to him and quizzing him often and discussing wonderful things as we always have looking carefully for any inconsistencies or threats. This after he thought I was having a heart attack this morning, but convinced him I was most definitely not. He hit hard and then was quiet and motionless a moment but kept his muscular elasticity still perfectly in control telling me he was conscience... Right? Or ? Is he ? Then the prayer and my Father instantly spoke and walked away nearly unscathed. Perception is an amazing thing infused with a blast of hormones under stress... but I know what I saw friends. Life is amazing and I honor my God today as I felt he spared my greatest hero by far and ever. I love you Dad. I love that we shared today and still have a chance at tomorrow and I thank you for having us serve well today alongside so many other fine people. I look forward to a well earned rest and pray I may annoy others with these Facebook posts for years to come and that we should all share that the same ;) I love you all my friends... It's not hard to love... It's hard to not love. I am thankful to have known so much love. Lord I ask you help me to be a better man today so I may guide others toward the live you share and the strength you offer, for without you I already have died again and again... and once again I testify a witness... Thankful for what I only step back from the shock of now finally hitting me with a little more objectivity and logic.  We, father and I, lost a friend just a few years ago as she fell upon the steps of the torpedo factory as she tripped and hit her head and passed away... all after an art class, she departed and today I am just thankful more deeply then I can express that my Father was so spared today. Thanks God... Thanks

The Death With Dignity Dialogue

There is this place up on high where I reside and most others come to visit or live here nigh as I am no apple anymore of anyone's loving or caring eye as we all come here for a peaceful way to depart and die.

Is there much in asking for a little fucking dignity in death? Would it alarm you if I for example said I contemplate removing myself often and just how easily and cleanly I could do it with a note and a wait for an electronic scheduled email to report where my remains are restfully just naturally going back to another adventure so once again and of what of it?... Of what?

Would you now not speak to me really as nothing wrong I have never done to you and even if a great Christian man I was who I claimed to be always string for progress and living ideally in imperfection and on full acceptance of this grace and so much I kept always giving away and so much more to come my way again as all others knew I was a friend to many and never agreed except a rare over indulgence from fear of far too long with nought.

What if on this my mother's birthday I penned my own demise out loud for a future always in doubt so that I and others could slip away peacefully where and with who we chose then to be a burden and leach upon failing and honestly quite scary systems I would just assume not have any part of residing within and would therefore be best fit for the realm of the after life and not a moment to soon and to humanely sleep forever my soul will rocket finally now forth this shell so easily spent and what a machine she was that feminine in me most men just cannot concede.

It is nothing to concern a moment with as its neither imminent or planned perfectly or is already passed or past. No ones time here is forever and to leave with dignity is a request for God I defiantly demand for all those that may need grace upon their own personal exit and tragedy always just really a curtain call away. Who knows when the curtains man shall beckon?

I shall per a chance of luck maybe control a bit of thine destiny and be my own curtain calling man and have one final peaceful act and be not a burden to another nor my country I love but should these comments even come to bear and what have we all become damn it!

You think this lasts forever and trained so lose such identity that you forget who you yourself even are and speak never with any confidence and then within eye blinks you depart only having been enslaved but with a moment as now finally upon you that says damn it this is my life and I choose life and I understand simple laws of nature and innately also understand that there is a balance and to fight the vibrations through life is always fruitless. There are lessons when you just go with the flow and conserve your energy for when you need it over using it up when you have an indisputable zero control destiny type of situation we all know from experience or certainly will.

So now what do you think of me and this paradigm that shall so shift I demand? Death with dignity in terminally diagnosed diseased situations. A right to plan a departure if its logical and rational.

The conversation is now to open the mind and change in flexibility and adapt to start doing what is right and natural and more beautiful in the overall balance.

If I have a choice I will die with my dignity and I need no organization of any kind to give me permission. My God gives me permission if I should so have to exercise it and also suggests to each their own to, but for all at least a fair and equal choice at dignity.

I have promised I will become vocal and educated and open minded about this topic in every aspect and that I would use my voice and intellect and talents and abilities and connections and experience to become the catalyst for the conversation we need to have now before we cannot and the answer is no,... There never is a good time. However, the time is now and today to allow all citizens in our country to be simply allowed to choose to pass away with dignity.

My wishes are my body decomposes on an FBI science body farm in Georgia and I go back into the earth close to where my artistic beautiful mother was raised and I can get started looking for her and my friends as we possess light waves and particles of radiant energy  and we ride moon beams and dance on star light and swim in galactic surf and continue to evolve however the universe calls us all forth and always with such dignity.

I pray for all to have that right to a death planned and with dignity upon the diagnosis of any non-treatable terminal disease.

It is 2016! Why wait any longer to have the dialogue we needed to discuss eons ago?

So I am happy and relatively healthy but experience says a plan is wise and for anyone to ever suffer what I just witnessed a loved one suffer, well on my Mother's birthday, I declare we discuss this in the United States of America and internationally too so that the discussion can quickly efficiently end with a choice undeniable to anyone at the end of life.

I am not going to wait any longer to say what I believe and stand for it loud and clear and challenge anyone head-on to a debate and will happily learn of any better alternative and will open mindedly consider any such argument as long as it is to promise dignity when such a controlled ending may actually be guided carefully to come to its inevitable end but now more easily and without such fruitless gruesome suffering.

Now I could go to my place in those woods and make others wait and wonder and scared and wasting countless manhours or I could just have my dignity and depart?... and really would you or a forgiving loving modern God really be angry ?

I will hear the birds and the waterfall nearby and have my dog by my lap and enjoy our supper and my concoction to fade away with timed to sunset and a last meal with my buddy. I will ease my eyes shut one last time and in pure confidence that my ending is secure and my business finished and goodbyes sweet as I push forward in anticipation nearly of what just ahead us each awaits.

See you there friend.

Sunny Days - a Short Story - MobiusTripz

written on my ancient i4 with my blogger App.

... And then I said out loud, " it's fucking raining? It's fucking raining??? Really? Like fucking now what?

And so as I eased that curtain back to peer outside while my damned computer stubbornly ceased to stop working but I can type all this shit here in this app on my ancient iPhone i4 in this year 2016,... Well what did I expect to see?

AthCpunts on just days... So much to do!!! Life getting full! And I am scared to soar! I have been so weak and ill and never thought I may come back! 

And so what did I expect to see on this winter day was a sunny day from my imagination where I most often stay because it's safe and I am an artist and I like to stay close toy discordant reality in this parallel universe.

Can I ever make it in my own again? I am so very close but scared.  So what of thought do you offer this all I propose and have you not somewhere been along this way?

But I at age 48... I need that sunny day. I yearn for that often sunny day. Right now I get back hard at work while I focus and often pray. Work, focus, and often pray. 

I need that sunny day! Let's all find that sunny day! Together let's all work hard and find that sunny day.

Bachelor Auction coming soon and yet I have to travel 300 miles and be where I volunteer elsewhere and still want to visit a friend in Springfield, wv on just a few days, so my mind does race, as I write, and look forward to these so busy days.

And to see Rhonda with her father after not at all for well over 30 years... I always pray, and I see miracles true, and so I always continue to pray. I myself, I can walk today, in pain so furious but I can walk today, so I pray.

So I open that window all the time and plant seeds towards those sunny days. I never fucking give up and over tears not beers I pray and I see up ahead a ton of sunny days, as a matter of fact nothing but sunny days. And still I pray.

I have concerts to attend and shows to watch explode with creativity that I created and what awesomeness this all shall be. I have other shows where I have pitched in a little inexperienced and somewhat guided but still blindly... My friends allow me to be me!

Back to work writing and reading and studying and creating and building is my daily grind I live so field by coffe so black and dark and mysterious like often destiny, so often destiny. 

Drink it all in and look ahead for those future lucid sunny days, playing naked in the rays, bathing in a psychedelic haze, into the sun let's all now gaze.

Into the sun, into the sun, into the sun, I cast my past darker ways and days, and to the sun, and to the son He, I offer all my life I have today, and I remain humble and thankful for today.

It rains and nourishes outside while the ice and snow so melt and that cycle continues and we all work hard towards those sunny days, up ahead, those sunny days!

The Hippies Are All Breeding ~ Poetry / Lyric ~ MobiusTripz

While you are all uptight,
and counting your money over there,
the hippies are all breeding,
and teaching love,
and the battle is in the education,
and there is no win in fighting anymore,
because you only fight the children,
and the children are not a canvas to ruin,
and not a canvas to play with,
and not a canvas to destroy,
and so teach that love too,
and forget fucking sinful money,
all corrupt,
all sick and blood tainted,
and be a hippy and breed,
and teach love and stop fighting,
go ahead smoke some weed,
and give back on a local level,
take care of that which you share with others,
and leave old republican ideas to die at the fire pit,
know love and leave behind silly foolish warrior ways,
a paradigm shifts,
as the hippies know so now make love and lets breed,
and the majority is now that paradigm,
which all think different now,
and you could be the stupid un-evolving foxnewshead sheeple idiot moron now,
the un-evolved stay here,
as the rest move on and share,
and build the dream within the mind,
that knows no defeat and builds on the outside,
a better life in which to fortify,
and a body to bear witness to what is healthy,
and beautiful friends to prove a better way,
and so we wait as others truly just die off,
and this new way becomes the only way,
and we change how everything now works,
and yet on this same foundation still sit,
we are united and not divided,
and we know that we have rights that we have to earn,
and we are not entitled but rather guaranteed,
a certain life and livelihood and better chances,
at mere longevity and promised we may voice these,
ideas and concerns without attack on character,
or anything else as a matter of fact,
and I have changed myself to stay and so evolve,
while many of my comrades behind so stubbornly fall !,
never opening their eyes they run blindly towards death flailing,
almost as if this is what they desire,
this heroes' death.
s plural because that line of sacrifice of the human flesh,
never so seems to cease,
and Czar himself would command this by day and at night feast,
so gluttonous leaving others out,
and yet we repeat like cowards,
paralyzed and like children not allowed,
to exercise our better judgement and take care of one another close,
and stop letting our government fight and always boast,
and so we may mature now on this international stage,
and stop being a playground bully,
a child so full of rage,
always hurting our brothers and sisters,
as a country this is nothing but a disgrace,
a leader has examples to peace permanently,
and the wars must stop which we constantly wage,
and my time is running short,
and what else have I learned,
and what is this meaning to life,
what purpose as on both ends this candle still now burns,
but I feel a breeze blowing, and stronger it does now get,
and in an instant not long from now,
I have to shed all guilt and drop regrets,
as the wind then stiffens and the flames fight,
against a certain strength stronger then they can ever muster,
the flames finally fade out,
and a trail of smoke leaves a trail across space time,
a long farewell of sorts,
as we each turn to particle and back through,
we all cycle yet once again,
so where would you like to be?
On a point of a war head irradiated,
or in the sunlight,
of a mountain meadow bee kissed pollinated,
dew drenched daisy?
I am that child,
son of a warrior and,
son of an artist she,
and I choose the daisy,
but stand by so guardedly,
so very guardedly,
so that anothers' candle may burning remain,
s plural again,
so I think first of others,
not of only selfish me,
of only selfish me!
So what does it all mean,
so what does it all mean?...
the hippies are all breeding,
yet still the message,
to some still unseen,
to some still unseen,
enjoy this life,
and harm not another,
and teach and live these principles,
to the best of ability,
the majority will eventually always rule,
who is that majority?,
be that majority,
make love that majority.
The hippies are all breeding,
Breeding love, breeding love,
making love, making love,
making love that majority,
love is the majority,
love a majority,
making love,
the hippies are all breeding.