Wow-ee, I didn't get home until a few minutes before midnight! Drove through torrents of rain to get to Mary Ellen's, who lives all the way at the end of Long Beach Island in Barnegat Light. Tara, Andrea, Barbara H., and I went over the script I'm writing and also started working up one about the Jersey Devil. I'll continue mine (have only the first act written) and we may use it sometime. We spent about half the time talking about personal matters--fun, especially hearing about Barbara's upcoming date with a new man in her life--but it made for a long night.
Looking forward to next Thursday when we meet for the first time to discuss the November staging of Hedda Gabler.
Wider: I just unsubscribed from MoveOn.org. It finally dawned on me that the organization is simply an arm of the democratic party. They were ever so vehement against our illegal and immoral wars when Bush was in; now that Obama is, they're perfectly okay with slaughtering people in other countries. I'm so disgusted with the so-called "anti-war moverment" that I'm beginning to actually believe there was some kind of back-room agreement between the two parties to trade off: "Okay, the public is getting tired of Bush, so we'll let the dems in this time and just continue our aggression, so we can enrich our corporate sponsors as usual. No problem with the electorate--even in the face of clear and constant evidence to the contrary, they'll believe anything O. tells them. After all, he's young, attractive, and he didn't come from Texas."