Friday Night Specials performs EVERY Friday night!!!

On Fridays, sometime around 10 or 11 at night, we all start showing up to the theatre, the cast to set up, and the faithful audience filing in to socialize before the show.

It's very nice of the people at the Strathmore Art Cinema on Rt 34 in Aberdeen, NJ not to kick us out when we get kinda loud in their lobby. They usually just shove us in an empty theatre so we don't disturb the other patrons as much.

Around midnight, the cast finishes setting up the lights and sound and props for their live show, and the doors open to the theatre for our weekly showing of Rocky Horror. The regulars find their usual seats, and others sit in whats left.

If you've been there you know the rest, and if you haven't - why not?

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Well then, I can share a little odd information with you. Rocky sings "The Sword of Damocles is hanging over my head." I wondered what that meant, and since I enjoy mythology and folklore, I decided to look it up. So here's my brief retelling of…

"The Sword of Damocles"

Once upon a time, around about the fourth century BC, there was this kingly dude called Dionysus. He ws very rich, with many comforts of food, drink, women, servants, clothing, and even guys who were there to just sit around and tell him how great he was. One of these ego-strokers was Damocles.

Now Damocles liked to tell Dionysus how great he was for being so rich, and having everything a guy could wish for. Maybe Dionysus got sick of hearing it, or just wanted to have a little fun, because one day he responded to Damocles, "If you think it's so great, how about you try it for one day?"

Well that wasn't exactly an offer Damocles was gonna refuse, so the next day he came in and lived like Dionysus. He sat on the comfy cushions, ate the exotic foods, and I'm sure he must have had some dancing girls - perhaps in more than one way. Then Damocles looked up to see a sword just inches above his head, point downward, hanging on a single thin horsehair. Startled, he stopped all he was doing to inquire of Dionysus just what was going on.

"That is the truth of what it is like to live my life," replied his host. He then continued on about how he has all this great stuff, but lives every minute fearing that someone will take it away. Damocles said the hell with this and returned happily to his former life of less opulence but more safety.

So like all stories of old, this one has a moral, which is obviously that it is better to live a secure life of merely comfortable means than to live a lifestyle too extreme and have Riff shoot you in the ass.