Random Weather Thoughts

Friday was the more-or-less one year anniversary of the blizzard of 2008. I wonder if that’s what started the strange weather mojo of land-locked hurricanes and ice-storms. It’s also worth noting that I keep my bi-annual check-ups at the dentist. They aren’t my favorite way to pass the time, but they’re not bad. Last April, just hours before my spring check-up there was an earthquake in Louisville. More strangeness. It’s only fair to ask if we should prepare for a tidal wave. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if we had one. Maybe in the summer months to round out the year. I keep wondering if I should prepare to throw out the contents of my refrigerator and freezer every couple of months in an effort to appease. Though I’m not sure who, exactly, we’re appeasing.

First Couple from Pandora Productions

I loved this play! It’s funny and poignant. What all American boy hasn’t dreamt of being POTUS? What man doesn’t have the idea, no matter how deeply buried, that he could be the leader of the free world? This presentation by Pandora Productions is both timely and hopeful. In my lifetime, I might just see an openly gay president and his husband in the White House. May it be so. In this play Blair Tyler isn’t elected, he’s appointed, but still, I can look around and say: “One of us made it!”

“First Couple reflects the current political climate as Blair Tyler, a young gay Congressman, suddenly finds himself Vice President when his predecessor is forced to resign.  Before he and his partner, Jason Lawrence, a free-lance journalist, have time to adjust to Blair’s new, very public role, the President of the United States resigns, propelling Blair and Jason into the White House.”

During the curtain speech, Michael J. Drury said that he’d found out that neither the Courier-Journal  nor LEO would be reviewing local theatre anymore — more’s the pity. He asked people to help spread the word about the company and the productions. I’m happy to do that. I was introduced to Pandora a few years back when they did The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told as the season opener. I found out about it reading LEO. I went to the performance at the Thrust not knowing quite what to expect. I left barely able to contain myself until the next production.

The threatre, located on the third floor of the Henry Clay Hotel at Third & Chestnut, was, as always, wonderful. And the homemade cookies at the intermission combined with the scene where Brett and Aurion were eating cookies and milk (to help make everything better) made my decision for supper an easy one. No, I didn’t go gayly for cookies and milk — though I seriously considered it. I had graham cracker and peanut butter washed down with skim milk. But I digress. One of the actors looks a lot like a guy I dated in college. It’s tends to be somewhat freaky, for that first instant, when I see him on the stage. See the show. You won’t regret it.