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Pretty and my wallet survived the vet without anything too dramatic happening. Yay. She's at work with me now.

Plane makes emergency landing when dude tries to open emergency door mid-flight. This part of the story makes me furious and puzzled: "A passenger, Casey Coleman, told 7News that flight attendants directed all of the females to the back of the plane and all of the males to the front. Coleman said a flight attendant ordered the men to hold down the passenger over the intercom."

Dogboy & Justine did not win the festival, which is fine and as I suspected. The plays that tied for first place I actually liked a good deal. I remain baffled how one of the others even made the finals and interested in the degree that I don't think short play audiences want the content of these things to linger.

A Buffalo woman has been charged with blinding a lesbian in one eye in an anti-gay assault.

sparkindarkness brings us a list of recent trans-related news items, most of them appalling. I keep saying this over and over, but trans issues, gay issues, and feminist issues are everyone's issues. In a world where gender isn't a supposed dichotomy and "feminine" isn't a dirty word EVERYONE -- even straight cis-gendered men -- is safer.

This story on medical radiation errors is almost impossible to read it's so awful, but should be read anyway. I wonder, to what degree, I can barely read it is impacted by my Cold War childhood. This was, in a way, how we all thought we were going to die.

I like Patty times-evelentybillion. So I'm going to get some work done now (cat is in the office with me!) so I can get home to her!

Comments

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

Did "Fallout" make it? My friend was in "Tommy O'Reilly" and I'd be interested to see what you thought. I also thought that "Winners" and Traffic Jam" might make it, but I never did find out!

I saw everything in the first rounds, and I'd enjoy hearing your take on the different plays!

[rm.livejournal.com]

"Fallout" and "Tommy O'Reilly" tied for the win, and I did enjoy watching both of those a good deal.

"Winners" was in the final, and "Traffic Jam" made it, but then was not performed because of a schedule conflict one of the actors had. The other one in the final's beside mine was the Othello spoof, which I found really and truly terrible, although I liked one of the actors in it a good deal.

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

I'm not surprised that "Fallout" and "Tommy O'Reilly" tied! I liked "Winners" though it made me very wary of participating in a work lottery again. And though the Othello spoof was cute in some ways, I think Stephen Calkins who played Ignatius was probably the best part of it.

What I liked about both "Winners" and "Traffic Jam" were the moments of physicality in both of them, where they really made great use of the space and of movement.

Of all of them, I did think that "Dogboy and Justine" would be served well by being expanded. I don't think any of the others would work if they were longer.