Gabi Clayton Alec and I saw some more great theater last week when we were up in Seattle. He wrote: The Seattle Repertory Theatre’s performance of “The Cure at Troy” is absolutely amazing. It is a retelling of an ancient and little known Greek play by Sophocles written by Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney and directed by …
One of my favorite bands REBECCA RIOTS is coming to Olympia again on their Northwest tour. If you get a chance to see them I recommend you do. You can listen to some clips from their songs on the website, and we have two of their songs, “How I Feel” and “How I Feel Now” …
Alec and I went to the play ‘Ascetic’ put on by TAO – Theater Artists Olympia at the Midnight Sun theater space on Sunday night. Alec had previewed a rehearsal at the director’s house for his weekly theater column in the News Tribune. I was unable to go to the rehersal because it was close …
Alec sent this out today: My newly revised and expanded version of As If Art Matters is now available from amazon.com. The book is twice as big as the original version – expanded from 64 to 113 pages – with a lot of new reviews and some of the older reviews and essays expanded and …
Alec writes for and is the copy editor for The Weekly Volcano. He wrote me, “It’s about time someone in the media did a fair and non-hysterical story on the so-call Evergreen riots.” and sent me a link to this article about my alma matter The Evergreen State College: Unless you live under a rock …
I had three seizures on Tuesday afternoon and was in the emergency room for four hours, and then I was sent home. I know I felt it coming on and called Alec, but then I don’t remember anything until yesterday afternoon. Alec says they told him I have pneumonia too. I’m still recovering and dealing …
My new friend Jackie, who has been commenting on my blog writes in her blog THINGS according to me: When it comes to honesty about race, we Americans are experts at bandaging over wounds, plugging our ears, and avoiding the 3000 lb elephant in the room. and Rev. Wright is accused of racism. They had …
I saw the surgeon at UW Medical Center last Friday and wanted to post something here for those of you who are waiting for news. He said the MRI showed no tumor and I don’t need surgery. yay! He said the tests showed a lot of scarring in my inner ear, probably due to all …
Meet the man who inspired Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s now famous tirade about America’s foreign policy inciting the terrorist attacks of September 11. His name is Ambassador Edward Peck. And he is a retired, white, career U.S. diplomat who served 32-years in the U.S. Foreign Service and was chief of the U.S. mission to Iraq under …
The assumption put forth in much of the mainstream media I have seen of late is that white Americans are offended by what The Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. said in his sermon. You know, the one they show clips from on the news – the one Barack Obama spoke about in his recent …