Geez. Best quote: Jokes Lawson: “Truth be told, he owes all of his success to me, and the rest is history.” Joy plays right along. “It’s true,” he says. “I’m Jamie’s bitch. He works me like a slave driver and I keep coming back for more. I’m a prison bitch.”
New North Carolina Laws Day
Being the beginning of another fiscal year, about 100 new laws go into effect in the State of North Carolina today. They're all listed here (PDF). But just so you know, here are a few: Local governments get to regulate golf carts now. Phew. Our long national nightmare is… uh… over? It's now illegal to sell novelty lighters. (A "novelty … Read More
Knickers Twisted
Letter to the Editor recently: Increasingly common My wife and I recently attended a performance of Moonlight and Magnolias at Twin City Stage ("Movie Stage," Sept. 13). What we were hoping for was a wholesome comedy. What we experienced was a profanity-laced production that made frequent use of a variety of obscene language. This is the type of language that … Read More
Oh By The Way…
The Rapture is scheduled for today. You can read the evidence here, but basically it all boils down to this sine wave graph (click to embiggen): I hope you are using your last day wisely…. P.S. Anyone up for some pre-rapture sexual adventures?
RIP Mary Travers
Good singer. Looked like Jabba the Hut in later years. Probably not nice of me to say that.
RIP: Patrick Swayze
References to Ghost and "(I've Had The) Time of My Life" are not encouraged. Succumbed after long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57. Patrick Swayze, Lisa Niemi (Swayze's wife), George De La Pena in One Last Dance
RIP: “Norma Rae”
Crystal Lee Sutton, formerly Crystal Lee Jordan, was fired from her job folding towels at the J.P. Stevens textile plant in her hometown of Roanoke Rapids, N.C. for trying to organize a union in the early 1970s. Her last action at the plant — writing the word "UNION" on a piece of cardboard and standing on her work table, leading … Read More
RIP: The Man Who Saved More Lives Than Any Other Person In History
Oh, I could tell you his name, but it probably wouldn't mean anything to you: Norman E. Borlaug. He died at the age of 95 last night. What was his claim to fame? Well, the title above says it all. He saved more human lives than anybody in the history of…. well…. in the history of history. How many lives? … Read More
The Shoot
I didn't know what was going on. I knew I had been cast in a very small part in "Hellphone", being shot in Madison, NC. My original part was one line, spoken into a phone, and then I die. But a scheduling conflict preventing that from happening. But they put into another part. I just had no idea what part, … Read More
Accusing Someone Of Politicization Is Itself Politicization
Conservatives Warn of Wellstone Effect: Key conservative voices have begun to charge in the day after Sen. Ted Kennedy’s death that Democrats are inappropriately politicizing the senator’s death, his memorial and his legacy. Kennedy was that ultimate political creature, a “lion of the Senate,” and the last son of the archetypal American political family — his passing is inevitably political. … Read More
Making It Local
Excellent resource here showing what passage of HR 3200, American's Affordable Health Choice Act, would mean for every Congressional district in the country. For example, I live in NC 5th District, so my Congressperson is the brain-dead Virginia Foxx. What would passage of HR3200 mean for my district? America’s Affordable Health Choices Act would provide significant benefits in the 5th Congressional District … Read More
Film-Friendly North Carolina
As a follow-up to this post, I'm glad to see that Gov. Perdue signed SB 943 hours ago. North Carolina now offers 25% tax credit to qualifying film productions which shoot here (effective January 1)
Conservative Kennedy Bashing
I don't want to draw too much attention to the vileness from some conservative quarters on the subject of Ted Kennedy's death – it's rather ugly. But it confounds me that many of these conservatives like to cloak themselves in the Bible and Christian goodness. I mean, I'm not saying that Kennedy was a saint, but if Jesus had a vote in … Read More
Teddy Hagiography
Last night was literally the first evening in months where I had no rehearsals, no performances, no auditions, no theatre-related meetings, etc. In other words, it was the first evening in months where I could veg in front of the TV. Man, what a bleak oasis. With nothing to grab my interest, I gravitated to the news channels, where there … Read More