Critics have sell-by dates?

http://www.artsjournal.com/lies/2008/09/do-critics-have-sellby-dates.html

also Nerve starts on Long Island, NY this weekend

http://www.arenaplayers.org/pages/ss/ss-p1.html

I just discovered this

Nerve in Florida starting Nov 7

http://www.nakedstage.org/

more about the Palin poll

http://www.pbs.org/now/palin-poll.html

Sarah Palin qualified to be VP? PBS poll

http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html

petition

Subject: No blank check for Wall Street.

Dear Friend,

Congress is on the brink of making a one-sided deal to give George W. Bush a blank check to bail out his pals - offering nearly (or perhaps more than) a trillion taxpayer dollars to Wall Street to cover its bad debts. That works out to somewhere between $2000 and $5000 from every American family. So what do the taxpayers get in return?

Nothing. No new regulation or oversight to help avoid this kind of crisis in the future. No public interest givebacks to help people whose homes are in the hands of the banks. Perhaps most shockingly of all, the taxpayers get absolutely no share in the profits if and when these finance giants bounce back, even though we are now assuming a great deal of the risk.

This is worse than a bad deal - this isn't a deal at all. This is a blank check to some of the richest companies in the world.

I just signed a petition calling on key members of Congress to impose a few sensible conditions to this bailout in order to protect the American people -- I hope you will too.

Please have a look and take action.

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/no_blank_check/?r_by=-1841693-zaUmmwx&rc=paste

Thanks

save the dates

Reading of my play Incendiary

Oct 29 and Nov 6 at 8pm

at the Public by LAByrinth

Blog of my former boss, the artist Charles Fazzino

Some of you have seen his work on my wall

http://www.fazzinocollectors.com/Blog/default.aspx

Remember that theater doing Food For Fish in Baltimore?

They were named Best New Theater in City Paper's Best Of Baltimore

http://www.citypaper.com/bob/story.asp?id=16683

We're Gonna Frickin' Lose this Thing

Don Hall http://donhall.blogspot.com/

points us to this article by Adam McKay

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-mckay/were-gonna-frickin-lose-t_b_124772.html

looooong list of things Mccain flip flopped on

Wow!

Isaac point us to this:

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/flipflops

Palin Monologue

Unknown Theater in LA had a call for short plays about Sarah Palin. I wrote this: Sarah Palin sucked the soul out of my cat. She did. I saw her do it. Blood was dripping down her fangs. My kitten, Fluffy by name, was torn open and her tiny guts were pouring out onto the pavement all over Sarah’s PTA dress. “Wait, I said. That’s my cat.” But by then she had picked up her automatic and semi automatic and strapped grenades to her chest and jumped on the back of a camouflage truck. “Northward!” she screeched and the tires kicked up dirt all over Fluffy as they sped away. Four years ago it would have been snow, not dirt. “The old man is dead,” she had said as they drove away. “Tomorrow we go to war with Russia and Pakistan and Switzerland. We will bomb the fuck out of them. But first, let’s go kill us some polar bears.” And she was gone. And my cat was gone. And my wife had gone the year before, because we were denied health coverage when it turned out she had cancer. I had nothing. Not even Fluffy. And that’s when I began to make the bombs in my basement. And that’s when I began to dream of Sarah.

Register to vote, request absentee or find polling place--easy

http://www.voteforchange.com/index_obama.php?source=091008emailR

photos from Snow in Edinburgh Fringe

Michigan GOP attacks right-to-vote for the recently foreclosed

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/11/michigan-gop-attacks.html

you know what's genius?

http://www.emusic.com/album/Rat-Cat-Hogan-We-re-Bicoastal-MP3-Download/10990442.html

track 5

pure genius.

Seven Years Ago Today and what followed

http://writerjoshuajames.com/dailydojo/?p=972

Theresa Rebeck on the Broadway glass ceiling

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2008/sep/09/broadwaysglassceiling

free preview tix

1000 Free Tickets to Previews of Women's Project Production of
The World Premiere Dark Comedy:
Aliens with Extraordinary Skills
By Saviana Stanescu, Directed by Tea Alagic
Previews September 22, Opens September 30 at 7:00pm at Women's Project
Are Downloadable Via the Web

www.WomensProject.org.

If I was in NYC right now, I would go see this:

SWIMMING CITIES OF SWITCHBACK SEA
An installation by SWOON
with a performance written by Lisa D'Amour,
created with the crew
Music by Dark Dark Dark
3 Nights Only
Thurs-Sat, Sept 11-13
Long Island City, NYC
September 11, 2008, 8pm at Deitch Studios
4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City
7 train to Vernon Jackson (First stop in Queens)
www.deitch.com

plays coming up

Can't make Food For Fish in Baltimore?

How about Nerve on Long Island

https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/1841/1222907400000

my travel plans

After my temping gig ends here in October, I take off to Independence, KS to see Kristen and stay in William Inge's house. The Dark at the Top Of The Stairs was written about this house. I was in that play in high school. I'm interested to see it. Then we drive back to Minneapolis for an event at the Playwrights Center. That next weekend I fly to Baltimore to do a talkback after the last weekend of performances of Single Carrot's production of Food For Fish. (Oct 25) If you're a DC or Baltimore person I hope to see you there. Then back to MN for a short respite before a New York trip for another reading of Incendiary in Nov. Come if you can, Nycers. Then what? I'm not sure. I'd like to not stay on the ground too long. An LA trip? Prague? Paris? If so, I'll have to figure out a way to get some money before now and then.

"Mrs. Palin needs to be reminded that Jesus Christ was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor."

more on palin from someone in her town

http://community.adn.com/adn/node/130537

the McCain factcheck --AP

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080905/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_fact_check

fabrications, lies and other untruths told last night by Palin and others

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_fact_check

McCain's war against the press and what you don't know about Palin

http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/angry_amateurs.html#comments

truth meter for your election following needs

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/

Sarah, not Michael

Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. "The librarian was aghast." That woman, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving "full support" to the mayor.

MN musings

I have seen the MN state fair and bought a bucket of cookies there for 14 dollars. I also saw Al Franken and Garrison Keillor and I'm going to vote for them both. Oh and Matt Freeman was there too. I will also vote for him. I've been bowling twice at Bryant Lake Bowl. I've been biking like nobody's business. I've been writing a novel and a play and a pilot. And revising another play and that pilot. Yesterday I went to a take back labor day concert sposored by a labor union. The Phar Cyde was there and Billy Bragg was supposed to be there but I think we missed him. K saw a boat boarded and turned around for flying a banner bemoaning torture. The swat team holding machine guns on the shore looked on. A boat without a banner went by without incident. No one knocked down my door to arrest me yet but the RNC isn't over yet and I am only protesting on this blog. What else? Except for today the weather has been sunny and in the 70s and 80s. Like a dream, really. A minneapolis dream where the beer is always cheap.