Thursday, September 21, 2023
Been Spending A Lot of Time With Lincoln Theater Company
Rachel was cast as Golde in Lincoln Theater Company's production of "Fiddler on the Roof," which opened last weekend, so I have been helping transport her sons Jack and Larry up there, as well as watching the show. Producers Paul and Peggy Schecter have been very welcoming. We used to be on the Board of DMTC in 2008, and they've all but asked me to join their Board. I'm not sure I want that responsibility since I have no organic connection to the theater company, but it is flattering, and who knows?
I've Been Busy Updating My February SWPACA Presentation
I realized I overstated my argument, so had to completely revamp the presentation.
Mitt Romney, The Blogger
We are birds of a feather!:
It’s not a surprise that Romney has turned to Coppins to help author his farewell address. Coppins, an excellent storyteller and chronicler of Republican politics in the Trump years, is a fellow Latter-day Saint who came of age in Massachusetts when Romney was governor of the state. That shared background is important. We found out last week, when Coppins published an excerpt of the biography on the Atlantic’s website, that in 2021 Romney and Coppins began meeting in Romney’s Senate offices or in his tony Washington town house, and had long conversations during which, Romney told Coppins, “no subject would be off-limits.”
Romney also gave Coppins access to a space even more intimate, and perhaps even more Mormon: Romney’s personal journals and other papers from his time as a senator. On these pages, Romney presents himself as a vestige of a mostly mythic past, when senators spoke and voted based on their principles, not party expediency.
Maren Says Leave
Country Music has always had problems with racism and misogyny, but lately it's gotten much, much worse. So what should country artists do about it? This artist says: LEAVE! NOW!
It’s not that Morris, 33, has tired of twanging guitars or neatly cornered rhymes, both of which define the tunes that came out Friday, a decade after she moved to Nashville from her native Texas, first to write songs for established country acts such as Tim McGraw and later to sign a major-label record deal of her own. Rather, she says she’s leaving because of what she views as the country music industry’s unwillingness to honestly reckon with its history of racism and misogyny and to open its gates to more women and queer people and people of color.
It's good Maren gets that option. I suspect it's hard on women in country music. I sort of knew these girls from the Sacramento area, but not seeing signs of huge success just yet.
Crazy Comes For The Garbage Cans
One of my neighbors (the lady with the Italian Greyhounds) warned me that one of her neighbors was in a delirium from the last stages of alcoholism and was collecting garbage cans and rolling them home. Then, one of the garbage cans in the alley was set afire and turned into a grotesque pile of plastic ashes. Then I saw someone looking through the neighbors' garbage can while using a flame for light. If a fire starts there it's a good chance that the tree, the hedge, and both houses will go up in flames.
So, I expected the worst when I heard the heavy scraping of a garbage can being dragged. I went outside, and found - this. I turned the garbage can back over, on the principle that one should never remain ignorant of what’s behind Door Number Two when it comes to the alley. Nothing was hidden. Not sure what it means. Maybe a portent?
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