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Kiss the Dead tour – San Diego/Carlsbad

Thanks to everyone at Mysterious Galaxy that helped with the event, and to everyone who came out see the show. We’re still getting people contacting us saying, “Are you on tour?” “Where are you going to be?” “You were in Carlsbad, and I missed you?” Last night helped me realize a couple of things. First, putting the information about tour up on our web page as a sticky doesn’t seem to be helping everyone find the information. I’m not sure what to do about that, since it’s the first thing you come to on the page. Suggestions for how to make it more easy to see are welcome. Second, maybe putting the info up in twitter and Facebook feeds periodically as the event gets closer may help. We’ll try that for the Atlanta event and see how it works, and if that works, great, if not, we’ll keep working on it.
Jon did remember a question we were asked for the first time in Huntington Beach, because it also came up last night in Carlsbad. The question was, does Jean-Claude truly love Anita, or does he love the power he gains from her? He loves her, maybe as much as he’s able, but I think that perhaps part of the holding back on his part is centuries of pain and loss. I know that just in this lifetime losing people I love made me more cautious about jumping wholeheartedly into relationships. But the question seems to imply that power is somehow bad, and I don’t believe that in this context. Power is what lets Jean-Claude keep his people and all that he cares about safe, without power he would have been dead ages ago, and so would Anita, Richard, and we would never have lived long enough to meet Micah, and Nathaniel would have never lived long enough to mean anything to Anita. If Jean-Claude and Anita weren’t the supernatural power couple that they are, they and the series would be dead ages ago. If you aren’t strong enough to protect those you love, then you can lose them. I don’t just mean the strength to punch someone out, or shoot someone, or any violence. I mean strength of character, strength of conviction, strength of will – to be strong enough to stay the course. I believe without strength love will not survive, but you, as a person, do not have the conviction to do the work for love to be long term. People who are weak of will fail you when love gets hard, and real love, true love, will get hard, trust me on that.
Are you strong enough to love someone? Are you strong enough to protect them, and yourself? Remember that protecting them is keeping that job you hate to put a roof over their head, and food on the table. Protecting your love is doing the housework, when you hate it. Protecting love is about doing what it takes to have a real life with the person, or people you love. Does Jean-Claude love Anita? Yes, by any real definition I’m aware of, very yes.
Remember, it’s not like Anita is twiddling her thumbs on a Saturday night waiting for Jean-Claude to call. She’s as busy with her career as he is with his, maybe busier, and she has Micah and Nathaniel as her other main squeezes.