The Daedalus Project is a AIDS benefit produced each year by the company of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The Daedalus highlight is an evening talent show held in the outdoor Elizabethan Theater, but there are many events during the day including a sale of OSF art/props/signed scripts, free outdoor entertainment, and play reading.  There's also a 10k run the Sunday before the Monday activities. This year's Daedalus Project included beefcake (twinkcake?) pictures of some of the young men in the cast. Of course we didn't have any prurient interest in the photographs.  But, we bought the full set of pictures [...]

Read all about it. It's getting very difficult to write satire, but The Borowitz Report at least puts the news out slighly ahead of CNN. 

Ashland is a friendly town, a throw-back to the Cleaver’s America, really.  It has 20,000 residents and a lot of transient students and tourists, but people are still welcome to stop over without an invitation.  Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s company are part of the town folk.  They show up in coffee houses, bars, and at friend’s small dinner parties. When we walked into our Ashland friend’s house earlier this week to participate in an intimate wine swilling evening, two of the guests were young actors.  Nice, friendly, bright 20-somethings.  One of them is an OSF company member this season who has small [...]

Homelessness is not a intrinsically funny topic.  In fact, us city dwellers are saturated with homelessness.  We get lots of donation appeals from organizations and we get the personalized appeals (aka begging) about five times a block in our neighborhood business districts. Community Voice Mail, our friend's non-profit that is a finalist for Amazon.com's Nonprofit Innovation Award $1 million matching grant, has found a way to make homelessness personal and understandable.  Their short flash cartoon is entertaining and preach-free. Please click to see a good way to help homeless people. It's a cute and entertaining work-safe clip. If you can, please give – give a lot, so that Amazon.com will match your gift. And, if you [...]

No posts in two weeks, and the last one concerned work:  a sure sign of a pending vacation.  The first two weeks of August have gone by in a typical pre-vacation whirl.  There's been no time for perspective or slowness.  Instead there's been an urgency to finish up tasks, some volunteer, some profitable, some just unintentionally unprofitable.  The productive blur was preparation for a mere10-day stint away from the daily routine.  Even that disruption in responsibility has been moderated by my notifying clients and volunteer co-committee members of how to reach me while we are out of The City.  (Honestly!  How important [...]

I finished site for the San Francisco criminal defense attorney .  At least version 1.0. Tim is very dedicated, bright, honest, and loves a good fight.  I don't want to need a lawyer, but if I ever do, I'd call Tim.  He reminds me of the hot-shot civil lawyers the company I used to work for hired to sue a competitor.  They were completely involved in the case.  The best of the team told me early on that, "We're junk yard dogs.  But, we're your junk yard dogs." The civil lawyers wound up creating an air-tight case that left us, well, [...]