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A look that's bullet proof -- fashion's use of military styles takes a turn I could not have fathomed. Meanwhile, fall 2010 menswear collections, I have very mixed feelings about you.

Children in focus in NJ same-sex marriage case.

Gay rights to be part of Nepal's charter.

Bet this story will be ugly and all about bigotry when the whole thing comes out: plane "forced down" because of some sort of "disruptive passenger" and "prayer beads."

For those of you wishing to see Dogboy & Justine, my one-act about dominatrixes and head-injuries, tickets are now available from The Secret Theater website.



Dogboy & Justine is part of Act Five: One Acts and has made it past the first round of judging. Now it runs with five other plays through Saturday night. At the end of the performances each night you will have a chance to vote for your favorite plays! After Saturday's performance a winner will be declared and hey, for $15 you get five plays!

So:

Go here: https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/1681/1262377800000/prm/ to buy tickets for this week and please vote for Dogboy & Justine.

The theater is located in Queens, one stop from Manhattan on multiple train lines. It's part of a larger arts center with galleries and studios and stuff, so it could be a fun outing!

Comments

[ex-adarog.livejournal.com]

OMG they let people fly airplanes who don't even know what *phylacteries* are???

No, I'm not being sarcastic. WHY DOESN'T EVERYONE KNOW THIS STUFF?

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

What blows my mind is how the flight attendant could have mistaken wide leather straps for fucking bomb wires.

[rufus.livejournal.com]

all I am going to say is this: I grew up in a reasonably cosmopolitan place (the DC suburbs) and had a reasonably broad experience of the world (I lived in Glasgow, London, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Orthodox neighborhood in Pittsburgh) and I was literally in my late 20s before I a) set foot in a synagogue or b) laid eyes on tefillin and/or anyone wearing them.

I didn't mistake them for bomb wires, because, wtf?; my point is, the flight attendant may very well be telling the truth. The story may still turn out to be ugly and bigoted, I don't discount that possibility. But not recognizing tefillin doesn't automatically make someone an ignoramus.

[ex-adarog.livejournal.com]

I really wasn't being sarcastic; I just have a hard time remembering, at times, that not everyone is as obsessed with religion as I am, and always have been, not just my own religion but everyone else's too. I have probably never seen a person using tefillin face-to-face, only photographs; OTOH, my stepdaughter's fourth-grade teacher is now a rabbi, so, I have connections.

[ravenskye8.livejournal.com]

For me - agreeing with realtsunamigirl - I am surprised that airline personnel are not given education about things like religious expression they are likely to see on an airline flight...

Though I'm not sure why I'm so surprised, since the TSA folks questioned a friend of mine about his talllit & tefillin in his carry-on...

*sigh*

I guess it's more of a shock to me that people manage to graduate from school never having been exposed to any kind of comparative religion curriculum...

[realtsunamigirl.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to think that Airlines should be required to send all of their employees through informational seminars about distinguishing actual threats from things or behaviours that are just unusual, but might reasonably be seen on a flight. This should especially apply to any religious symbols or behaviours. These people are being ramped up to an impossible degree about keeping an eye out for possible threats and are, to the best of my knowledge, not being told what they are looking for. This may very well have been a case of ignorance, not malice or profiling.

And as a note, I'm a well-educated woman who happens to live in a *very* WASP city. (Heck, it's so white-bred around here I came within a hairsbreadth of telling a customer at work that she had dirt on her forehead on Ash Wednesday.) I have read about tefillin, but never seen one worn and would probably be at least temporarily confused by seeing one. Just saying...