weeds, wallace shawn, and globalization

i'm going for back to back posts today because I haven't posted since v-day and well love is sickening anyway you look at it.

so home in my parents house is a treat not only because i get to visit with the folks but they have digital cable and ON DEMAND. this great feature lets me watch a multitude of shows I miss due to my lack of all but four stations in my one bedroom city apartment. this trip was dedicated to the Showtime series WEEDS. to my surprise, both parental units watch this show religiously and so we regressed to my yester-years and watch the show as a family. i remember doing the same with Cosby, Family Ties, Jeopardy... Weeds is a great show led by the beautiful Mary-Louise Parker. She came to my grad school and talked to students about acting, theater, film, etc. I missed her entire trip because I was trying to get into someone's pants, but we will not go into that story this post. Sufficed to say, I need cable. Besides Weeds, there is a plethora of shows out there I am missing with excellent writing, acting and quiet genius...Should I take my mother's offer to sponsor this addiction?

before leaving on my short trip, I browsed through the unread section of my bookshelf and decided what to take with me to read on the plane. I had just got a new play called Terrorism, but thought it best not to sit in the airport or on a plane with this. I fear flying as much as the next guy and wouldn't want to put any more ideas into the minds of my fellow passengers. I chose a Wallace Shawn play, Aunt Dan and Lemon. Shawn is an exceptional writer and the theatre company I am currently working with is considering some of his plays to produce in our next season. Aunt Dan and Lemon is no exception and a great tale of youth, sex, love and politics wrapped in a horror/black comedy. Lemon and Dan's relationship builds over many years to a longing for another chance at life and love. sad, funny, quiet and explosive all in a matter of pages. Read this play and all of Shawn's work. It's inconceivable!

it is great to come into work after a weekend away and fuck about. are there things to do? yes. will they get done? yes. now? no.

I finished The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman last night and am still absorbing the book. we must not fear, but dream. use our imagination to a positive end not a destructive one. globalization is happening. the only way to stop it is to set off a bomb. the only way to accept it is to read this book. globalization is a lot less mechanical than I thought before reading about the flattening world. Friedman breaths humanity into this very technical idea. how it all goes is now up to us...all of us.