Interesting times.  When you put yourself out there, people feel free to tell you what they think.  This is not always very comfy, because often they differ.  Often they agree though and I just had a very comfy (Liberals!  Fuck yeah!) conversation with Gersh, who found me on Facebook after 15 years of living in the same city, knowing the same people and never seeing each.other.  (Ah, Los Angeles.  You know that person you run into once a month?  You might not see him again for 15 years. ) Gersh explained the whole bail-out thing to me from the guy-who-always-was-thinking-about-$-when-the-rest-of-us-were-failing-forward perspective and I kind of get it, but I have many suspicions.  Sis Nanc sent me a forward (one of the rare ones that she and I agree on) that said giving every American a million bucks would be cheaper than this bail-out.  I think that would be much more fun.

So Rebecca sends out an e-mail to her peeps promoting Joe’s Garage (see it) and Eenie Meanie (love her) and at the bottom of her e-mail, she adds this commentary, which is so nail on the fucking head, I’m just walking away.

That’s Becca in the middle. Flanked L to R by Donna, Stephanie Terronez, (Becca) Amanda Weier & Michele Lema.   We theatre folk sure do like to dress up and take pictures of ourselves.  Anyway, her e-mail begins below.

AND ON THAT NOTE:  I realize I’m preaching to the choir with, well,
all of you, but if you are registered to vote in California, please
remember to vote down the hatemongers’ Proposition 8 when you go to
the voting booths this November to support the candidate of your
choice (obama), whomever that may be (obama), as it is your right as a
citizen to do (obama).  We do NOT need sanctioned hatred and
discrimination against our gay brothers and sisters in our state laws!
A few things to think about:

If you’re Christian:

Luke: 37: Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye
shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.

Proverbs 23:7: For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.

Matthew 22:36-38: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

For the Tribe members:

LEVITICUS 24:19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he
hath done, so shall it be done to him.

LEVITICUS 19:18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the
children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself:
I am the Lord.

And for you gorgeous godless heathens:

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall
any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the
equal protection of the laws.  –U.S. Constitution, 14th Amendment

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an
equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no
other. –Carl Schurz

(…who also said, “My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept
right; and if wrong, to be set right.”)

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.–
Mohandas Gandhi

LOVE TO YOU ALL!  Please forward this as you see fit!

Rebecca

big day…

putting out that e-mail today was big.  I have a big list and got flack about the roach thing almost immediately.  I guess there’s more subtle ways to do things, but that’s just not how I roll.  And sometimes I pay for that.  The positive responses were sparse so I kind of had that sinking feeling…like in high school when I said something snarky about someone and suspected it got back to them.   Just wanted to hide in my locker.

Then tonight I discovered a string of e-mails that I had missed this morning.  There were about 7 of them - all encouraging, all  not getting how someone could not get the roach thing, and one glorious one from Manon Banta volunteering to produce the event.  Manon = Manna!  As well, Jim Stevens who did my gorgeous Eenie graphic from which Tracy Berna built this site offered to rework the graphic for the event for free.  And my great friend Tracy is nipping and tucking the site and e-mail stuff.

It is really tiring sometimes to stick your neck out, but this day paid off.  I feel like Eenie’s gonna touch some new hearts and raise some money for Change.

here’s some fun campaign stuff from Patricia Bankins…lol material.

Seriously, if that was what I meant, I would have capitalized “roaches.”

Sent out an e-mail today (which you probably got or you wouldn’t be here) announcing my Eenie for Obama performances.  And, yes, I got a little fancy with the rhetoric.  I’ve been keeping my mouth shut for so long about this election that I guess I got a little carried away.  You should see the stuff I edited out.  You probably will at some point.  Blogworthy stuff, but not for broadcasting to the e-mail list. Well, seems I missed one.

At the end of the e-mail I put my fancy tag on.  “Get off the couch.  Be the change, ya’ll.  It’s not us or the Republicans.  It’s us or the roaches.”

Tell me you know what I mean by that…please?  Really.  Is it that obscure a reference or am I just that suspicious of a liberal?

Firstly, I was born of Republicans.  I ≠ roach-spawn,

I really do respect the classic Republican ideology.  My father was a great man. He raised 5 kids, 4 of whom adopted his political leanings. We stay away from politics in my family because we want to enjoy our time together, but I respect my family’s choice in party.  It reflects their values and how they see the world.  We have different influences and different values.  If they had mine, they’d vote like me.  If I had theirs, I’d vote like them.

But this election is bigger than that.  It’s not just about whose guy wins.  And I haven’t anointed Obama. I love a good speech as much as anyone, but all the reservations I had before I still have.  I still think Hillary is the better candidate, but that’s irrelevant now.  And the stakes are too high to stay home or spite-vote.

As far as McCain is concerned, there was a time I might’ve voted for him.  Definitely would have chosen 2004 McCain over Kerry and maybe even the Gore of 2000.  But, McCain has clearly morphed, as our leaders often do under pressure. McCain = McBush.  The trajectory of the current disastrous administration will most likely be continued if the Republican ticket prevails. The tenuous position of the economy, the environment and foreign affairs put us at a tipping point.  This election is for all the marbles in the most elemental sense.  I swear I’m not trying to be dramatic when I say that I truly believe a McBush victory could be the beginning of the end of us.  Science has been warning us for decades that our actions will end us if we don’t reverse course.  McBush will not reverse course.

So, yes, I really am saying McBush = wiping out of the human race.  And while that does sound alarmist, to me it’s just math.  And a shame.  But the earth will be fine once we’re gone.

And the roaches will endure.

So yes, not much of a blogger here, but off we go again with Eenie Meanie.  I watched a tape of the OFTC production the day after Obama’s acceptance speech and got choked up.  The show holds a new relevance now and I’m so grateful to be able to present it during the campaign for this amazing candidate.  It hit me that I’ll have to write a new ending…so you’ll need to come out for that.

The shows at the Open Fist were originally meant to be just invited dress, just a warm-up to the big gig in Escondido.  Then I realized what an opportunity it is to increase diversity awareness and raise money for the campaign.  The problem is, still just the one woman here with the one woman show.  So if anyone out there wants to help me organize/produce these shows (on October 6 & 7!) and get the word out for Eenie for Obama, please e-mail or call me.  PLEASE!  teresa@eeniemeanie.com & 818.631.6743.  Thanks!