I will be helping with my church's communications today. Posting updates to Twitter, and Facebook. I will have a statement from the minister once the rulings are announced. May this be a good day for equality... or the birth of a final push to achieve marriage equality for us all.
The owner of the Ashland Bed and Breakfast we stay at told Geoff today that she thought we were nice and never complained. Really! The nerve!! I cannot every recall being tagged as nice and polite! I have legions of friends and acquaintances who know better. I whine, I complain. I think of myself as competently bitchy if not downright bitter. I think I know the problem. The B&B, Country Willows, is more like a resort than a room. There's a full-size pool shared by the visitors to the only 9 guest rooms. The grounds are an idyllic farm, and they're [...]
Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka The rhythms, the timing, and method of communication in Death and the King’s Horseman are not familiar or comfortable for a typical American play-goer. But, if you let yourself be absorbed into the opening long, chatty, riddling, market scene — if you let your thoughts fall into the same tempo as the indirect, elaborate, and elegant storytelling dialog — then Death will grab you from the opening curtain… err… more like opening colorful banner… and make you witness an unwanted, unavoidable, and unstoppable tragedy. This vignette of [...]
Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalEquivocation by Bill Cain This world premiere production is stuffed with clever concepts, interesting plots, brilliant acting, spectacular execution, and meaningful messages. It’s an artistic tour de force bursting with importance and complex stories which are determined to cross centuries of time to reflect the current events of 2009 (or, at least George Bush’s 2001-2009 torture-burdened court). But, it is disappointment to have to sit through such an overwrought and under-edited excellent draft play. I am puzzled why a typical amateur error of piling on content was allowed to progress to a full-blown production on [...]
Prop 8 decision to be announced Tuesday @ 10
This is Sequel's first public appearance as a guard dog. She's in the front of the hide-a-pet protecting Vector. He's the black in the back. He buried himself for a nice secure nap.
Forthcoming Opinion Filings May 20 2009 -- No opinions were announced for filing on Thursday, May 21, 2009. There is no pending notice of forthcoming opinion filings. When opinions are expected to file, notices are generally posted the day before. Opinions are normally filed Mondays and Thursdays at 10:00 a.m. from http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/courts/supreme/#forthcoming <pure rumor>The activist email blast said that Gavin asked the Court to NOT release the decision tomorrow because it was the 30th anniversary of the White Night Riots and Harvey Milk's birthday is Friday. </pure rumor>