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_sarah_:
Probably... it's not something I really discuss in person anyway. surreal The only people who knew were the friends who went with me and a couple of people I showed them to.

I'm not really sure how to interpret your comment, I guess. Is it some sort of jab or completely tongue-in-cheek wit?

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penelopelee:
your dog's ears look like they feel like velvet!! what a face!
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lotus:
then what makes those types of men attracted to me?
Inquiring minds need to know. wink

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maike:
And now my teeth hurt, but the best sins are always pleasure and pain.
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Look, it's either silence or I go on and on about my dog.
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baudot:
Thanks for the tip.
zaksmith:
hello?
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lotus:
oh yeah?
charley:
Awww look at her, she is a proper dog!

Isn't it genius, I love so many Prince songs but I think that one is my all time favourite lyrically and Cyndi with her squeak just makes it perfect.

Bob just never gets dull for me.
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Our best run of the play happened tonight. Glad the audience was there.

Many thanks to maike, Freakpirate, Lotus, and Oryx. I swear I heard each of them guffawing.
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superflea:
With respect to that brewpub, I'm thinking the weekend after next might be a fine time to make a long overdue return to Toronto.

All my plans from now until May, I suspect, will have a side order of "if I don't have to be at the office that weekend", but that notwithstanding, it would be unspeakable groovy if you were free.
superflea:
Also, do let me know if there's a script for your play that you wouldn't mind letting a member of the peanut gallery read.
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Ran the play twice tonight in a half-assed dress rehearsal (i.e., not in the space we're performing in, and missing some of the heavier props). It is certified grade A funny. If you're fucking a duckbilled tranny whore for all of tomorrow you'll just have to deal with the disappointment you'll feel from 8 until about 8:55. She doesn't owe you a refund: you should've...
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lemonkid:
Good luck with the play.. I wish I could see it.

I forgot to mention it after our Don Cherry back and forth but consider yourself and Ginny to have a standing invitation to crash here should you wish to visit Montreal. I have a nice little place here with a backyard and everything.. just getting everything together right now.. but an excellent location and definitely large enough for guests to stay.
lotus:
I GET TO SEE YOU IN ONE HOUR!!!
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Salinger was excellent.

Pleasure reading is over for now.

Until February 17 I'll be reading the same 40 pages over and over and over...
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freakpirate:
I'm currently doing a volunteer gig and I'm looking for more as soon as I can find them. As frustrating as they can be I do know it's the only real way to get ahead in the business. I'm just having one of those moments where I'm weighing the pros and cons of theatre vs eviction and creditors.

I'm also partially kicking myself because in talks with friends from back home I've discovered that after taking my name off the IATSE call list in Edmonton (because I can't very well work for them) I received more calls than when I lived there. In fact, I'd be faring a great deal better than I am now.

I sincerely doubt that I'm going to give up trying. I put far too much time and effort into an education to roll over and die just yet. It doesn't mean I'm going to enjoy the long haul... but it looks like I'm stuck with it.

The advice is greatly appreciated. smile

oryx:
thank you for the lending of the granta. after just the first story i am now a blubbering mess of emotions and memories. i want to go back and hug every child again. maybe three times. thank you. thank you.

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It's been a decade since I read The Catcher in the Rye. It was for school, obviously.

I'm reading Franny and Zooey now.

It's snapped me out of a phase of boredom with novels. It's not the kind of thing you can sell somebody; there's no gimmick. If it were clothing it'd be a good pair of pants. It's so far above anything like...
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obd:
I need to make time.
st_expedite:
Hm. I read Ballad of the Sad Cafe today while waiting in the dentist's office, and thought pretty much the same thing about Carson McCullers.
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If W hadn't spouted that "uniter not a divider" crap before polarizing American public discourse 6 years ago I might rest easy with the words of our new Prime Minister's acceptance speech on my mind.

Call me crazy, but I think I get this guy. I don't like him. I don't hate him either. He's no ideological goon like W, so it's hard to feel...
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zaksmith:
ummmmm...

my experience with Canadian politics extends no further than a cursory knowledge of the Weapon X program, but I feel like your sentiments could only have come from a native of a nation about which Mencken said: "The Canadians are the only people who take the idea of moderation to an extreme."
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It's probably safe to say that this country will never rally behind a conservative party. Case in point: the Liberal party, that's been in power the entire time I've been of voting age, has been punished for scandalous misdeeds committed over the duration of their reign by being made the opposition to the Conservative Party's minority government.

Let's see you spin that, Mr Harper. The...
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hapworth:
I'm ashamed of the fact I don't know much about my neighbors to the north.

I'm pro bagged-milk, though. I also enjoyed paying in loonies and toonies. I must get back to Canada!
legionnaire:
If I know anything about Conservatives though, both in Canada and in the USA, it's that they're all about the spin and not about the substance. The election could have been decided by a single vote and Harper would have gone on and on about how it's a great victory for his cause. Blech. At least Canada has a parliamentary system so coalitions and some degree of cooperation are required to get things done. Not like our idiotic zero sum game that we have in the US.
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*CLARIFICATION* I have been on stage in plays before. I've even been credited as an actor. What I mean down there in the second to last sentence is that I've never really been any good at it. Entertaining, occasionally. Good, no. That's what I've got to sweat.

Had a reading for friends last night.

Nice to be confirmed in our suspicion that we were writing...
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adjunct:
Don't wave your hands around too much, a classic first-time actor mistake. This isn't the Sopranos.

If comedy is about mis-application or misperceived intentions, then even when a comedy is not a comedy, isn't it still comedy? Okay, with that statement, I can finally say after 8 years that I really got something out of my freshman metafiction writing seminar.
freakpirate:
I agreed with the NDP on 10, the Liberals and Bloc on 7 (I think?) and the Conservatives on 2. My riding will most likely go red. I haven't seen a single NDP sign anywhere. Oh well.

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We finished the first draft. But I wrote the ending last week? Lemme 'splain: we took assignments to get things moving faster; Julian took the second to last act, and I took the ending.

Today we finished the process we began last week of combing all the material we'd written into a single play.

8 years ago I decided I wanted to be a writer....
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superflea:
I'm so very, very envious of you right now.

When do I get a chance to read it?
zaksmith:
hey, you wrote the thing. if it's good then the rest is just bullshit anyway and you've already won.