the odd weather we’ve been having!!!! it is blistering hot, and all the coats and sweaters are in the closet, and the next day it is Fall. The leaves on the dogwood trees have all been brushed with red. The days are cooler and nights are crisp. however there was none of that nice period of sunnier but cooler weather and greenery. the landscape is pretty while the economy totters on toward collapse.
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Veni Vidi Vici
New York Theatre.com’s review of Deborah Kaufmann’s one-woman show reads: “An exploration of human instincts at so basic a level that thought can be put aside and impulse thoroughly enjoyed . . . this performance gleams most brightly, with true mischief . . . unfettered at maximum strength”
It was exactly what I wanted to see - a short clown show that had theme and structure. “Mud” is a clown with a four word vocabulary, the most commonly used words being “mine” and “nice”. She has some vaguely Hindic ritual by which she performs her kind of magic to solve her problems. Her ritual can give her the “permission” she needs to expand the circle of her chalked “spot” larger and larger on the stage or make silverware appear it what seems to be an empty paperbag. She “kidnaps” audience participants and has them set a table for her or be “knights” thumbwrestling. The charm of the show is that her “greed” is so natural and therefore universal. We have all wanted those “nice” things that we could call “mine”.
- Following the Line!!!!
The “dot” at the end of the show is when the audience discovers the chalk line of “mine” has been extended all the way out the theater door, down the three flights of steps to the street, out the door and to the street curb. It is the final laugh, long after the formal show has ended.
I was heartily encouraged as I know I could perform a similar 30-40 minute show if I could write it, (and find proper venue of course). Most heartily encouraged to learn from Deborah after show was that she left parts out!!! and even so, the show seemed complete.
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Scatterlings of Africa
I am an African about 2000 generations removed …
The Journey of Man by Spencer Wells
The Journey of Mankind - Peopling the World nn
National Geographic Channel web site
Wikipedia - article mmm
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You Know it is HOT When …
you come inside and feel so wonderfully cool and the inside temp is 82 degF.
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Unbelievably Mediocre Movies
The fare on films for our bus trip to and from Georgetown DE was unbelievable. Not having children myself, I guess I am not too aware of the awfully low standard for PG and G entertainment. An IPhone and a mute button were necessary to endure the sequel to the Dr Doolittle movies starring his daughter and some movie whose name has thankfully escaped me about a pack of kidnapped golden retrievers that end up in Alaska in a sled race (a bad remake of Snow Dogs without anyone the caliber of Cuba Gooding in it)
Just because there is no sex, nudity, bad language, violence and gore does not automatically require the omission of character development, story, and acting above the caliber of ‘find your mark and say your line”.
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