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This is the Davis bus system--the town bought a fleet of double decker buses from London. (for those who are getting tired of
my refrigerator magnets--take heart...I'm almost
finished! Household Hints from A Medieval
Home Companion: To make a liquid for marking linen: Take axel greast (the dirt at both ends of the axle tree of a wagon), add ink, combine oil and vinegar, and boil all this together. Then heat your marker, mosten it in the mixture, and set it on your linen. I am a theatre critic OK...so it's a new "career", but if you're interested in reading my reviews, go here Updated 2/11/01 WHAT I'M READING... Christmas gift from my friend, Diane, who felt it was time I learn more about Australia also He, She and It Steve tells me I have to read this book. WHAT I WATCHED... 20/20's
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PEEL ME A GRAPE... 3 March 2001 Well, I took today off. That means I didn’t spend the day sitting here pretending to work and feeling guilty because I was accomplishing nothing. I gave myself permission not to work, since I was nearly caught up on transcription anyway. First, I finally watched Part 2 of the Judy Garland movie, which Walt had recorded for me Monday night while I was at Stanford with Steve. Having seen bits and pieces of it in promo clips, I didn’t expect to be as taken with it as I was. Judy Davis isn’t as pretty as Garland was, nor as petite (her hands are too big, and her legs not shapely enough), but she’s done her homework and has the mannerisms down and in many instances has recreated Garland’s voice very well. I’ve always had difficulty with Lorna Luft. Liza Minnelli made her career being Liza Minnelli. Luft has made her career being "Mama’s daughter." I’ve seen Luft perform and she seems to be talented in her own right, but from the very first after her mother died, you never heard her interviewed anywhere that she didn’t call people’s attention to the fact that she was Judy Garland’s Daughter. I saw a lot of that self aggrandizement in the movie’s script, which is based on Luft’s book. But nonetheless, as a biography (and I’ve seen lots of ‘em), this is head and shoulders above most. When the movie finished, I played on the computer. Had such a great time. Peggy had alerted me to a program, PicturesToEXE, with which you can create a self-contained slide show which can be sent to other folks. They don’t need the program, as it runs itself. I did the start of a test slide show and want to play around with it a lot more, experimenting with backgrounds, sound, title screens, etc. I expect to get a lot of use out of this program. During the course of the morning, I received a call from one of my one-to-one clients, whom I’ll call Joe. I was paired with Joe over a year ago and for awhile we met on a weekly basis at Starbuck’s in Sacramento. He has AIDS and had requested someone for emotional support from Breaking Barriers. I wasn’t really sure why he needed a one-to-one, because he seems to have strong family ties and a good social support system, but over the months of our more intense relationship, his need for someone outside his social circle became more apparent and so I continued seeing him when he wanted to talk. He then kind of disappeared. He has a roommate who never delivers phone messages, and Joe is forbidden to answer the phone himself, so contacting him was all but impossible. We finally decided he’d call me when he needed to talk. He’s called me twice, and today was one of those times. We arranged to meet at the local book store at 2 p.m. I like Joe, but he’s exhausting. Our "hour" generally ends up being 3 hours, with the reason why he really needed to see me not becoming apparent until the last 30 minutes or so. And then it’s almost impossible to say goodbye to him because he hangs on so. But he obviously needs someone and this is what I volunteered for. We finished a little after 5 and there was just time to get home, check e-mail, fix dinner, and change for the theatre. We were going to the Winters Community Theatre to see the world premiere of a play written by Larry Linville (Maj. Frank Burns from M*A*S*H) and his wife. Linville died last year and this work had been written specifically for the Winters Community Theatre. Opening night was a big deal, with Mrs. Linville and other members of the family, along with Gary Burghoff (Radar O’Reilly on M*A*S*H) all showing up in limousines, wearing formal clothes. Now you have to understand that Winters, the town where the play was being produced, makes Davis look like a booming metropolis. And the "theatre" was the community center with tables set up as if for dinner, but serving small plates of hors d’oeuvres and Cold Duck. As for the play--well, it’s going to be difficult to write a review. It’s hard to know if it was the script that was bad or the acting of the central character. Or both. I suspect the latter. But of course, a critic is a bit more lenient with small town community theatre. I’m going to have to figure out how to to creatively say "this will never make it to Broadway." (Heck, it’s never going to make it to Davis!) ~~
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