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| Monday, July 7th, 2008 | |
| 10:11 pm | John C. Malloy, 1936 - 2008 [One more - It's the sound of the other shoe dropping...] As Artistic Director and also director of O2B2's first two productions, it's my sad duty to report that John Malloy, who played "John" in Six Characters in Search of an Author and shared the role of "Capitano" in A Company of Wayward Saints (his last onstage role) has passed on after suffering from the long-term effects of lung disease. His obituary, published in the Capital Gazette, follows. John, a gentleman in every sense of the word, was a pleasure to work with and I am terribly sorry for of his loss. My company and I extend our deep condolences to his wife Nancy and his family. Betsy Marks Delaney [http://www.hometownannapolis John Charles Malloy, 71, of Bowie for 15 years and previously of Virginia, died June 29 in his home. Mr. Malloy was born Aug. 21, 1936, in Pittsburgh. He earned a bachelor's degree in business from New York University. He worked for the Society of the Plastics Industry for over 20 years as an association manger in New York and Washington, D.C. He served in the Air Force. Mr. Malloy was a board member and acted and assisted backstage at Colonial Players, Bowie Community Theater and Prince George's Little Theater. Survivors include his wife of 15 years, Nancy Malloy; one son, John W. Malloy of New Jersey; two daughters, Susan Tarsi of Pennsylvania and Lori Robertson of Bowie; two sisters, Margaret Rodgers of Oregon and Martha Denevan of California; and four grandchildren. A celebration of his life will be held from 2 to 6 p.m. July 13 in Bowie. [Details are available upon request.] Interment will be private. Arrangements are by Evans Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Lung Association, 11350 McCormick Road, Hunt Valley, MD 21031; English Setter Association of America, 551 Bohemia Church Road, Warwick, MD 21912; or to the Attention Deficit Disorder Association, 15000 Commerce Parkway, Suite C, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054. Current Mood:  sadCurrent Music: Taps |
| Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 | |
| 10:31 am | From da O2B2 BOD President! Hi, everyone, This is a reminder that the annual membership meeting of O2B2 will be held on Saturday, July 12, at 10am, at my house. Directions: [redacted - comment for more information!] The primary business of the meeting is the election of Board members. Nominees for Board members are Bill Jones, Betsy Delaney, Greg Mangiapane, Sandra True, Lise Mendel-Kramer, Penny Martin, and Jo Rake. I perform in Coriolanus at 2pm at Warehouse in DC, so I have to leave shortly after noon, but my wife Ginny says you can stay a while and chat after the meeting. Good news: O2B2 was awarded a "Judges' [Discretionary] Award of Excellence" for Then, Now, You at the NVTA Festival. Jo and Greg were the actors in it. We got a plaque that Betsy will bring to the meeting. O2B2 has received approval to put on Catch-22 at Greenbelt Arts Center the weekends of June 5, 12, and 19 (though we may decide to make it only the last two weekends). I will direct. We will discuss details at the meeting. Sorry about the short time slot for the meeting (I'll have soft drinks available, though no lunch), but I'm pretty busy right now – I'm directing Measure For Measure at GAC, I'm playing Rev. Gardner in GAC's Mrs. Warren's Profession, I'm playing Citizen #3 in the Rude's Coriolanus, and I'm producing a Children's Theater version of Comedy Of Errors for Labor Day (when you take out the sex, you get just 20 minutes of slapstick and farce). Bill Jones Current Mood:  artistic |
| Monday, June 9th, 2008 | |
| 10:51 pm | It's about damn time! I thought they'd never get there! From: (ImpeachBush@VoteToImpeach.org) Sent: Mon 6/09/08 10:32 PM "Breaking News: Articles of Impeachment Being Introduced in Congress Right Now Right now, Monday night, Rep. Dennis Kucinich is on the floor of the House of Representatives introducing articles of impeachment against George W. Bush. He is presenting a 35 count indictment which is being broadcast on C-Span. We will provide a more detailed update, but wanted to be sure to let everyone know right away. The intense work of the ImpeachBush.org/VoteToImpeach membership is forcing impeachment on the table. During ImpeachBush.org's National Call In Day for Impeachment held just one week ago, the offices of Rep. John Conyers were flooded with calls demanding impeachment. We have received reports that there were more calls than could even be answered. Your work and perseverance is making the difference!" http://www.impeachbush.org/site/PageSer Time to take them DOWN! Current Mood:  jubilantCurrent Music: We're not gonna take it! |
| 4:01 pm | PSA: You take the Orange line for Metro? Better check the news... Just what we needed, in all this heat... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: WTOP Radio <newsalerts@wtopnews.com> Date: Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:37 PM Subject: WTOP Breaking News: Metro Orange Line Train Derails A six-car Orange Line train headed in the direction of Vienna derailed at about 2:45 p.m. today. The third car of train 905, with an unknown number of passengers on board, experienced the derailment between Rosslyn and Court House Metrorail stations. Emergency crews are on the scene. There are no reports of injuries at this time. Trains are sharing one track (single-tracking) between Clarendon and Foggy Bottom Metrorail stations. The Blue Line is operating regular service. Customers can expect major delays on the Orange Line throughout the remainder of the day. Follow developments at http://www.wtopnews.com/. Current Mood: surprised |
| Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 | |
| 4:42 pm | Shilling for Goodloe... Don't Miss THE GOODLOE SILENT AUCTION 2008! This Sunday June 8. Peruse the items at 9:30a.m. Bidding starts at 11:45 am (or after the service) and ends at 12:30p.m. It's your ONLY CHANCE to go to unique Goodloe events like South Pacific (you read the script and sing the songs to Karaoke music), a condo by the sea, a weekend at a home in Surf City, NC, a driving tour of historical Bowie, a dinner in a Goodloe private home, AND MORE… Hire a harpist for a special event, purchase original artwork and prints, buy a decorated cake, a sermon, crafts, handyman service, yardwork, a trip to the airport, a dinner (delivered), and MUCH, MUCH MORE. Pay as you leave at 12:30. Drop off your auction items on Saturday June 7th, 4-6pm, or Sunday June 8th, 9-9:30am. - - - - - - - - - - - ( Here is a taste of what is being offered! Price listed is a Minimum Bid. ) [I'm adding a collection of Jeannette Glass bowls, no idea how much the minimum will be.] Need directions? Let me know! Current Mood: busy |
| 11:43 am | Hot-freakin'-damn!!! Clinton set to concede delegate race to ObamaIt's about time! Now we can get on with it and take McCain out! Current Mood: ecstatic |
| Monday, June 2nd, 2008 | |
| 4:20 pm | How cool is this???? http://www.playbill.com/news/article/11 [title of show] Tix on Sale April 21; Lyceum Box Office to Open in June http://www.titleofshow.com/tickets.h First Preview Date: July 5 2008 Opening Date: July 17 2008 I totally want to go up to NY to see this. It was fabulous then and I think it's gonna be fabulous now. Anyone else??? Current Mood:  bouncy |
| Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 | |
| 10:57 pm | I Am Iron Man (NOT) Ok so I don't look much like RDjr. Or Gwyneth, for that matter. Big deal. Yes, it's worth it. Even at full price. Yes, even the payoff. You have to wait ALL THE WAY TO THE END, but it's worth it. I was in a blow-things-up mood. Now I'm not. Guess it worked, huh? And by the way, wouldn't you, if your name was Obadiah? Just sayin'. Quite wisely, there appear to be very few openings up against Prince Caspian next week. Unfortunately I'm working next weekend or I would be right there at the theater Friday night. So, are folks available the following week? When??? The week after that? Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Then (for me at least) it's a long dry spell until WALL-E on June 27th. Since that's the same weekend we have to be out of our current office space, I'm not holding my breath for seeing it opening weekend, but I could be wrong. Most disturbing opening week (according to IMDB) so far has to be July 18 by a landslide, though. In the same weekend: The Dark Night / Mamma Mia! / Space Chimps. Seriously. And then there's week after week of completely missable titles, right up till November 21: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. After that? It's a huge wasteland. What happened to the movie industry? Have we become that shallow? Really?? Good thing my library's stocked up. It's going to be a long, dry summer... Current Mood:  contemplativeCurrent Music: See the title... |
| Monday, May 5th, 2008 | |
| 11:02 pm | Still here, but WAYYYY behind... The work piled on almost immediately and it really isn't going to let up until sometime around June. I looked at my calendar today and realized I'm going to one service in four this month because of stupid scheduling. I've read and silently celebrated/commiserated with all sorts of folks. I'll pick the narrative back up again when all the audition notices have gone out. I'm hoping to be done tomorrow. The stupids have me. Going to bed, but snack first. On the plus side, I'll have fewer leaves to rake come fall. BGE took away my Bradford Pears before they took out a car. We still have our pine tree, but the grass will be in full sun for the first time in decades. Got a suggestion for trees to plant? I'm thinking Japanese Maple and maybe true Canadian Maple or Dogwood, now that the sun will actually get to it in the spring... Oh, and what would you do if you had termites in your lawn? (The house has been treated annually, so no fears there, but my lawn is home to all sorts of bugs and I'm getting over it...) That's all. More when I can brain again. Current Mood: tired |
| Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 | |
| 8:13 am | Saturday (this week)... I'm seriously contemplating the MD Sheep and Wool Festival this afternoon. Anyone else? (Gotta cut grass first, since it didn't get done while I was gone, and I'll be at the May Day celebration during the Audubon Nature Fair all day tomorrow...) Current Mood: tired |
| Monday, April 21st, 2008 | |
| 6:33 pm | Ok, so now thiis is weird... It was bad enough to find the raccoon carcass yesterday. Today I came home and found a newly deceased squirrel. I guarantee it wasn't there yesterday. I wonder if someone's putting poison out. If it happens again, I may have to call animal control... Current Mood: weird |
| Saturday, April 19th, 2008 | |
| 10:57 am | RIP Rocky... Racoon, that is. And I was wondering where he went. Now I know. Ewwwwww..... Current Mood: grossed outCurrent Music: Taps |
| Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 | |
| 1:08 pm | (X-posted) Last Call!!! Winchester Mystery House... Hi, all! I need to give the house a "final" number by the 21st. If you haven't already heard from me and you're planning to go or you need to drop out, please drop me a line offlist and let me know ASAP (prepayment not required), so I can include your head(s) in the count. Deciding after the 21st will increase your entry fee (you won't get the full discount but you will get to tag along with us). T-8 days and counting... Current Mood: excited |
| Saturday, March 29th, 2008 | |
| 10:22 pm | Winchester Mystery House - the complete details (I think)... Right! So, I think I have all the major details now. Here's the scoop! 1. Cost per person: $22 US. 2. I *think* you can pay me in advance by sending a payment to me through PayPal without costing either of us any fees. You'll need to process the payment to "my-lj-username@gmail.com" and you should indicate in a comment somewhere who you're paying for, especially if you're paying for more than one person at a time (since I'll only have an email address, I think). 3. I need to be onsite to process the payment at least 15 minutes in advance. I'm going to aim to be there by 2:30pm, which likely means leaving the hotel at 2pm just to be sure. 4. Our Mansion tour starts at 3pm. The Behind the Scenes tour begins at 4:15pm. 5. The ticket prices are for adults only. So far as I know, no children are going on this tour with us. 6. April 20 is the deadline for your commitment to going on the tour, whether paid in advance or not. If you plan to pay in advance, I MUST receive your payment no later than April 22. Otherwise, please plan to bring $22 cash for each person you're covering. My cell is 301-922-1865 and I'll have the phone with me when I get to CA, so please don't hesitate to call me if you need to make last-minute arrangements. I arrive in the vicinity of 12:30pm on the 24th. Other questions? Please comment and I'll respond as needed! Thanks! 25 days and counting... Current Mood: tired |
| Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 | |
| 11:04 pm | Ok. So I think I need to further this discussion... This started out as a response to ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} stori_lundi's comment from my last post, but then I realized this was too thorough a response to be buried in comments, so here it is, for everyone to see.We begin... As I understand it, his basic teaching was that you could find the kingdom of heaven within yourself and to mistreat others was to mistreat yourself. People have misinterpreted what Jesus was saying:"If you believe what I believe, you'll get there, too." Instead they heard "Only through me." Believe in Jesus and you'd be saved. It should have been "Believe in what Jesus is saying and you'll save yourself." See, now, here's where I have a problem. Jesus was Jewish. The Jewish belief that you get to heaven on your own, by believing that's where you'll go, is something he taught. The trouble with the bible is that it was written hundreds of years after Jesus died. In Greek. Translated any number of times. It's terribly hard for me to believe that what is written in the book is the exact thing Jesus said. After all, how many games of Telephone lead to an exact retelling of the original phrase. Couple that with a change in languages (ancient Hebrew, the original Aramaic (not as ancient as the version in the original Old Testament) of the bible and then Greek, Latin, and finally English (King James), plus other modern languages), and you really can't say for absolutely sure that what is written is exactly what Jesus said. One version has the onus of a single individual as a representation of the only way to get to heaven, and the other indicates a philosophy that, if followed, will get you there. I don't personally think he said that _he_ was the path to salvation. I really believe he said _his way_ was the way to salvation. That's two very different meanings muddied by millennia of individuals, many of whom had their own personal agendas to carry forward. Remember: For both the Greeks and the Romans, very few humans made it to Mount Olympus to live with the Gods. The Jewish faith was vastly different: One God and a heaven to which all people had access; where it wasn't necessary to have Priests intervene on their behalf and where they wouldn't simply be consigned to the Afterworld (Hades). It was a radical departure from what the vast majority of people believed then, and put the Priests on such shaky ground (who feared what would happen if enough people believed in Jesus' version of the truth), that the threat was sufficient to have Jesus executed. They didn't expect that their execution plan would backfire, but then it's rare that people in power consider the power of the martyr. Have a look in the general direction of the Middle East (where all this theology developed) and you'll see exactly what I mean. My problem all along (and the root of many a debate in high school and beyond with some of my more fundamentalist Christian friends) has been that the Bible is an interpretation of history, much of it verbal and only later written down in a way that could be interpreted by present day speakers. And don't even get me started on the Old Testament (Hebrew version or otherwise). Wikipedia (sometimes questionable source that it is) provides an example of what I'm talking about here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic#La I note especially this comment about The Passion of the Christ: "The 2004 film The Passion of the Christ is notable for its use of much dialogue in Aramaic only, specially reconstructed by a scholar, but not an Aramaic specialist, William Fulco. However, rather than basing his reconstruction on what is known of first-century Aramaic, he used the Aramaic of Daniel, fourth-century Syriac and Hebrew as the basis for his work.[10] Modern Aramaic speakers found the language stilted and unfamiliar." Just think for a moment: You're familiar with Shakespeare. It's written in English, right? But how many of the words and phrases he uses mean the same thing as today? Consider how many footnotes you find in the modern texts, and then think about this: We're talking about a period of time that's not even 500 years ago. Think how much language has changed and then think about a period of time 2,008 years ago, and you can get a better idea of my basic problem with the Bible. Drifting way back to the beginning of 2006, where this current spiritual wandering of mine started, I see a lot of books that were recommended to me then that I didn't have time to pull down and read. Most notable amongst these is the Bible itself. But which one? King James? Gideon? T. Jefferson? I refer back to that dubious but handy fountain of information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible#Bibl The recent uncovering of the apocryphal Book of Judas calls into even larger question the validity and truth of what people have come to understand: That Judas was the epitome of a traitor and the foundation of all that is wrong with the Jews in history - a fitting example of why they must be exterminated. If, instead, he's viewed as the key to taking Jesus' message to the wider population (by sacrificing his leader and himself because he was asked to rather than simply because he'd lost faith in the lessons and the man), how then are we to know that he actually committed suicide. The Priests saw no benefit in a public execution, but would they be above a hanging that would look as though Judas was guilty and repentant? Suppose you consider the possibility that he didn't hang himself? Can we know for sure, just because the Bible tells us he committed suicide? Who's really saying that? It couldn't have been Judas and only Judas would know for sure. The rest is heresay. The first time I really investigated this topic, I was in my first year of college, taking a cultural anthropology course. Way before I considered theatre as a career, I was convinced that Anthropology was The Thing for me. One of the books we read, "Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches" had a different interpretation of Jesus and what he meant to the Jews. I'm coming to realize, after over 20 years of additional experience since reading the book, that there might have been a grain of truth to the postulation of Jesus as a military figure whose inability to win freedom for the Jews proved that he was not the Messiah and therefore a target for death, but that this doesn't take into consideration the things Jesus might have taught his followers as a Rabbi. I need to go back and reread this book with my additional experience, but not before I sit down to read the Bible itself. I'm tempted to read the Jefferson Bible, but I suspect that won't get me an understanding of what the majority of Christians believe. A recommendation about the best version is welcome, though. I'm gathering that King James is the most widely used version today, but I can't say for sure that it's the best version. I find it vastly interesting that at the same time I'm ruminating on this subject, scientists have located a Gamma Ray burst sufficiently bright to be seen by the naked eye. From the NASA web site: Never before has anything so far away come even close to naked-eye visibility. The explosion was so far away that it took its light 7,500,000,000 (7.5 billion) years to reach Earth! In fact, the explosion took place so long ago that Earth had not yet come into existence. I can't reconcile the Bible as absolute truth with these sorts of things. The two don't make sense to me. Either science is One. Big. Lie. or the Bible has it wrong on some level. It's in my nature to fall on the side of science. Now I can believe that a man named Jesus lived, taught people as a Rabbi, and died on the cross 2008 years ago, give or take a day. I simply can't take as absolute truth most of what the Bible has to say, unless I can take it in context. There are simply too many contradictions to take it as a whole, and if not taken as a whole, then the whole document comes into question. And if you can't take the gospel as gospel, then the book raises more questions than it answers. This is what I believe. Your mileage may vary. I do love, however, that the Gamma burst noted above happened within 24 hours of Arthur C. Clarke's death. Makes for a neat juxtaposition. At any moment the monolith will visit us and everything will become clear. Any day now. Current Mood: contemplative |
| 1:27 pm | On the subject of Easter and some of the things I've heard... It's been a long time since I waxed philosophical. I guess Spring brings it out of me. First, before I get to the discussion, I want to repost the UU Principles, because I'm going to come back to them in a bit. If you don't read them now, you might want to go back and read them after you read the rest. ( Cut because I care... ) Honestly, I don't know why it took me so long to just say I was UU and get on with it. Now, here's what I experienced on Sunday: ( Also cut, for my friends who aren't into theological musings... ) Happy Spring! Current Mood: contemplative |
| Monday, March 24th, 2008 | |
| 7:14 am | A new high and a new low, all at the same time... According to NPR this morning: US Death Toll in Iraq War Hits 4,000and at 7:05am:
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| Thursday, March 13th, 2008 | |
| 9:41 pm | I is here... Let's just say I'm hedging my bets. (Ha!) If you know me, comment here and I'll friend you. If you don't know me, tell me who you are and I'll decide if friending you is what I want to do. In the meantime, I'm still at LJ, but my paid account is up in March, 2009. We'll see if I'm still there by then... Current Mood: skeptical |