Thursday, November 14, 2002 :::
It must be the Jamocha Shakes.
Monday night after rehearsal (which went well) I stopped off for a Jamocha Shake at Arby's. Man, them things is tasty. Then, at 3AM Tuesday, I woke up and spent an hour on the toilet.
Tuesday night: no Shake, no wake.
Last night: I got the shake, and I got the wakeup call. Fortunately, after slamming some of the shake, I thought to take a Lactaid so the wakeup was brief.
Tonight is opening night! I can't believe it. Show ought to be good. Mechanicals got lots of laughs. I hope I can just keep Theseus from boring folks to death.
::: posted by Brian Jones at 11:25 AM
Wednesday, November 13, 2002 :::
Iraq has agreed to the latest UN resolution.
Tomorrow's NY Times Headline:
World Breathes Sigh of Relief as Iraq Accepts Resolution
Only a madman would doubt Hussein
::: posted by Brian Jones at 1:55 PM
Monday, November 11, 2002 :::
Read this piece by Bill Moyer, and then tell me why anyone would ever believe this person is qualified to report as if "objectively" about anything. Yes, I know this is an opinion piece. I'm not complaining about this piece per se. But anyone who would write something like this...
[...][F]or the first time in the memory of anyone alive, the entire federal government — the Congress, the Executive, the Judiciary — is united behind a right-wing agenda for which George W. Bush believes he now has a mandate.
That mandate includes the power of the state to force pregnant women to give up control over their own lives.
It includes using the taxing power to transfer wealth from working people to the rich.
It includes giving corporations a free hand to eviscerate the environment and control the regulatory agencies meant to hold them accountable.
...needs to turn in his "objective press" card. I'm sorry. This level of bitterness, faith in easy stereotype and vitriolic bile cannot be put aside when it's time to put the "just a reporter" hat on. It can't.
The mask is slipping further and further. I truly expected better. But then, I used to vote for these people. Had high hopes for them. It's natural for me to expect better.
::: posted by Brian Jones at 3:40 PM
Come see my play this weekend!
::: posted by Brian Jones at 2:40 PM
What do I look like?
A couple of decades ago, a friend told me I looked like Joe Jackson.
Then, something later, another friend told me I looked like Chris Elliott.
Then, last week, a coworker told me I look like Xander Berkeley, the guy who plays George Mason on 24.
That is, he said my eyes look like his.
Another friend, at certain times if you know what I mean (wink wink) used to get really freaked out by my eyes. And I know George Mason's eyes are kind of freaky.
I have to use this information somehow. I've frankly been self-conscious about my eyes in the past. No more. Just use them. To see with. And maybe to get noticed for.
::: posted by Brian Jones at 2:30 PM
