Money Talks

Flag Day closed to a great Saturday crowd of 32 (responsive and appreciative and our biggest audience of the run) and a sad crowd of 6 people on Sunday, one of whom walked out after about 20 minutes. We struck the set, including the 800 pound half of a car in just about 2 hours. I got my paycheck and as a new and spontaneous, just made up rule (for today anyway) I will be donating 10% of my theatre checks to worthy causes.

Today's causes... $25 went to Renegade Theatre Experiement. Their last show was really a good one, and it's nice to see them being smart and committed again to the cause which with dwindlig funds and volunteer support can be the death of a non-profit and too often is. Their theatre is interesting and compelling and has greatly improved since they took a break to regroup, and I like that they are doing more to consisitantly engage the renegade supporters.

$15 went to Planned Parenthood in honor of Sarah Palin. I received the following and thought it was a GREAT way to make a political statement without having to make a contribution to a specific political campaign.

Instead of sending around emails about how horrible she is, let's all make a donation to Planned Parenthood. In Sarah Palin's name. And here's the good part: when you make a donation to PP in her name, they'll send her a card telling her that the donation has been made in her honor. Here's the link to the Planned Parenthood website:
https://secure.ga0.org/02/pp10000_inhonor
You'll need to fill in the address to let PP know where to send the "in Sarah Palin's honor" card.
I suggest you use the address for the McCain campaign headquarters, which is:
McCain for President
1235 S. Clark Street
1st Floor
Arlington , VA 22202

PS make sure you use that link above or choose the pulldown of Donate--Honorary or Memorial Donations, not the regular "Donate Online"

I can only hope that she at least recycles the thousands of notifications that PPH will receive on her behalf. It's viral campagining at it's savviest. Can I get a woot woot!?

And finally $20 went to Women in Recovery. A fellow actress I have directed before is heavily involved with this chemical dependency recovery group and in liu of being able to go to what looks like a really fascinating interactive fundraiser on drugs and alchohol in film, I decided that since today was apparently a giving day, I would do so for this group.

On the Queenie front, her roundness is being much braver or more forgetfull or perhaps getting bored of the scenery in the bedroom. She will follow me to the kitchen in the morning, or explore the hallway until Lincoln rushes/slinks over to investigate at which point Queenie decides she's been brave enough for one day. Paxton makes me laugh because he literally could care less. He's so mellow when it comes to other cats, he just barely notices her, sniffs a bit, but often time she'll hiss and freak out or just stare at him and he'll do his best to fully ignore her. Given time I think Queenie would tolerate the boys just fine (she doesn't hide under the bed, and even after a run in with them, she's very content to put and be pet by me), but hopefully she will find a good home where she ran follow her human around without the nuissance of running into other cats.

The vet said I can't be in there for the appointment for her ultra sound, (sad) but maybe that is for the best. I know she is pretty laid back, but it might not be so pretty for her to be pinned down and jellied up and ultrasounded. If I'm squeamish about giving her a bath, I can't imagine I'd bee too keen on watching her be manhandled...

Watch a couple of films over the weekend as I tried to sleep and couldn't (SJ State is back in full swing and it's even louder on the street at night than normal). Made of Honor...pretty dresses and kilts and scenery, but trite fluff of a story and acting. A good no brainer, 2 1/2 RRD's for me.
Harold and Kumar Escape From guantanamo Bay. I suppose it was what was expected. Rauncy as all get out, and i laughed out loud exactly once when someone called someone else an anus. Anus is a really funny word. I'll no doubt use that one this week. All in all, a pathetic 1 RRD from me. I should have heeded the sign when my first copy of it wouldn't work and I exchanged it for another. I'll know next time. And Misconception. I think becuase I just don't have that baby biological clock thing going for me that I just wasn't feeling it, but the premise was unique (young woman finds out she has 1 egg left and 4 days to get pregnant so her friends devise all sorts of plans to try to get her to have sex with random people, all of which fail while her recently ex boyfriend, a babyphobe, who she was with for 6 years is all she really can think of) so it gets 2 1/2 RRD's. I just wish they would cast real British Actors in it instead of Heather Grahm....her talent is not so brilliant that we need her. She's now Gwyneth Paltrow or Rene Zellweger. Season 3 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is going well, still enjoying that...glad I don't have to wait to find out what happens on some of those cliff hanger episodes.

And there you have it..more soon...