. . . and the balloons are getting their freak on. Hey, it’s a long night.

At Perishable Theatre,

Hosts David Higgins and Nicole LeDuc welcome you to Blood from a Turnip, November style. Enjoy the late night puppet salon that has lasted longer than some marriages.

$5, 10pm, Friday, Perishable Theatre, 95 Empire Street

I can’t get the first sentence started here because to call this guy a singer and a songwriter doesn’t begin to cover it. Musician and Berklee grad Bleu McAuley has so many irons in the fire and projects going on it makes your head explode. This is his new single ‘Come ‘n Go’ and you can drive up to Boston tonight (it’s possible, I’ve done it) for a release party of his new cd A Watched Pot and hear these wondrous vocals for yourself.  A small group of lucky locals got a preview last night where he set off a few car alarms — that voice is real.  Personally I keep waiting for another project which seems to be taking forever, Loud Lion. This homage to Def Leppard features Taylor Locke of Rooney, Alisson Robertson of The Donnas and John Fields who recorded with Andrew WK. You may recognize the ‘The Hills Have Eyes’ theme. (According to Bleu, the windsock guys took a few good swipes at him. South Central LA and he gets mugged by puppets.)

10:45pm, Friday, Bleu (with band), TT the Bears, 10 Brookline Street, Central Square, Cambridge

And glorious:

Session’s out for somewhere between 2 and 28 weeks, so they say…

Jobs you can’t just outsource to China, or even Nashville.

That is where we get the Priestess classes and the matriarchal powers coming from. The fact now that were keepers of the secrets. Innitators. Right?

An unusual production tonight at AS220 — Yorick’s Marionettes Play Shakespeare. Here’s what they have to say for themselves.

Marionettes are puppets activated by strings. Those used by Yorick’s Productions are hand carved by artist Dusan Petran, a native of the former Czechoslovakia. Mr. Petran studied the Theater Arts at the Janacek Academy of Arts in Brno and was a theater stage actor prior to founding his own marionette theater. His carving skills earned him a Folk and Traditional Fellowship from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.

8pm, $10, all ages, 115 Empire Street

I’ve been laying off recently, but am very happy to have noticed that the trippiest and probably best-est episode of the Muppet Show has resurfaced on YouTube. Brooke Shields doing Alice in Wonderland: