http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZMKtADKzOIMore street corner evangelism. Watch out when I ring your doorbell on a Saturday morning. The ad is playing this month on the Bay Area cable TV broadcasts of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.
The San Francisco Unitarian Universalist church is participating in a $300,000 advertising campaign that will run ads around the Bay Area this coming month. That's not much money in media terms, but it' a start! My current volunteer task is to edit stock ads to the size required by different web sites. This is my draft for Gay Sonoma : I'm not opposed to proselytizing. But, my real intent is to see how the banner looks online before we send it in!
Too much fun for the weather fixated (This means you, MP!) Check out the map on the right side at Weather Underground. It looks like 5 of us within a square mile report on on conditions at least a few times each hour. It's nice to live in Geekland.
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We returned from vacation and discovered that one of San Francisco's squaredance clubs is starting up a beginning class. What fun! The Foggy City Dancers' free introductory session is this Tuesday. (At 3435 Cesar Chavez, #204.) Folks are invited to just show up. Squaredancing is where redozdachs and I met people who have been friends for many years. Oh, yeah... we met each other through squaredancing, too! Foggy City is a gay/lesbian squaredance club, but all interested people are welcome. Unlike traditional clubs, Foggy City welcomes single dancers -- you don't have to come with a partner. And, the pace and energy [...]
Ashland, OR at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalRomeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Director and future Artistic Director Bill Rauch found ways to make this classic fresh and standout from the pack of “another Romeo and Juliet”. Rauch’s creativity augers well for his upcoming run as the festival’s Visionary In Chief. This is a fast-paced R&J, and it is viewed with a generation gap at the center of the drama. The parents’ generation is decked out in old fogy Elizabethan grab while the young adults and town folk are with-it, modern, dressed as prep school students and in current-day suits. The parents are stuck [...]
Ashland, OR at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalTracy’s Tiger Book and Lyrics by Linda Alper, Douglas Langworthy, and Penny Metropulos Composer: Sterling Tinsley When I rail against musicals, I am denouncing the big stage, big production number shows that seem only incidentally interested in the erstwhile story. I am frustrated beyond reason by those extravaganza’s whose spoken words serve only as bridges for a street urchin, young lover, or wandering king to burst forth in rah-rah upbeat song. Go to a concert or a piano bar if you want that type of entertainment. But, don’t call it an evening of theater. These [...]
Ashland, OR at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalDistracted by Lisa Loomer The cacophony of cell phones, bad hip hop, and telemarketing calls is familiar. The witty commentary on our overstimulated life is satisfying and relaxing. The faux concerned neighbors, teachers, and doctors are so recognizable that they’re disarming. The script is sufficiently pleasant and smugness-producing that it takes a while for the realization to develop that you’re watching a Neil Simon commentary on ADHD, teenage self-mutilation, and some true terrors of parenthood. The dialog nails the thoughts and conversations of today’s educated middle-class. The Ashland audience is watching itself on stage, [...]
Ashland, OR at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalThe Tempest by William Shakespeare Note to self: You do not like The Tempest. You think it is pretty much a waste of time. In the first act one implausible thing happens after another, and the remainder of the play just doesn't have enough pleasurable fantasies or moralistic outcomes to redeem the show. You sucker yourself into seeing this show because the storm and spirits sound frightening and fun. They're not worth it. Remember the 2007 Oregon Shakespeare Festival production? It had Derrick Lee Weeden as Prospero and Dan Donohue as Caliban. They did excellent [...]
Ashland, OR at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalThe Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare There’s so much chemistry between Vilma Silva’s Katherina and Michael Elich’s Petruchio that this male chauvinism manual almost escapes its own words. Silva is a striking, confident, beautiful woman. Elich is vigorous and sexy in a way that seems unique to wiry bald men. Together on stage the are in love and lust. This production is a straight-on shrew taming. No winks, nods, or knowing looks that sometimes indicate that Kate is complicit in a charade. No, in this staging Kate and Petruchio may be in love, but Kate learns [...]