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Visibility!

Nov 4, 2008
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I've never watched Gray's Anatomy. I don't have time for television and only watch series on DVD. So when I happened to catch a replay of the scene at the end of last season where two straight women kissed for the first time - I was all excited (which should tell you something). Here was a fairly popular show introducing this to pre-existing characters (you know, just like it happens in real life!), and doing so in a very responsible way. They even went to far as to hire consultants to make sure they got it right. The story line continued this season - and I've been following peripherally though recaps on AfterEllen, more to see what they do with it than because I really cared about the story.

Which turns out to be fortunate, because they've axed the story line and fired on of the actresses. Read about it here.

This drastic about-face is coming from on high, from the network execs who "had issues" with the "explicitness" of the relationship. Because god knows two lesbians laying in bed, fully clothed is FAR more explicit than any hetero scenes seen on television. Because when two women kiss it's like pure sex on screen and the kiddies can't see it. Or maybe because it excited the exec's wives a little too much....

My Mom recently told my aunt, a long time Texas native, that I'm dating a girl. Her response was fairly mild because "she suspected it already, because I live in Seattle and that's what people do up there".

Apparently I don't live in the Gray's Anatomy version of Seattle.

If I ever watched television, I'd stop watching anything on ABC.

"If Voldemort's building up an army, I want to fight!"

Oct 31, 2008
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That's totally how I feel too! Glad to know I won't be an army of one if the bad guys win on Tuesday (not that I really thought I would be - but you know...).

From this article (well, actually from Harry Potter, but quoted in context here):

http://www.afterellen.com/blog/stuntdouble/would-you-vote-against-prop-8-if-emily-deschanel-did

Fairies in parking garages!!!

Oct 31, 2008
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation shares our building, actually occupies most of it. On the floor where I park they have a shuttle stop, which I'm usually fairly annoyed with because it's in my way. This morning I pulled into the garage and there stood a fairie waiting for the shuttle. As I walked past the fairy to the door, she asked me what kind of princess I was. I responded that I was the 4 year old kind - and that was it.

I love Halloween!!

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T-Mobile

Oct 31, 2008
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T-Mobile

Oct 31, 2008
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Yes!

Oct 27, 2008
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Gay Marriage...Yes!

Thanks to Nikki for sending this my way.

Amend this!

Oct 14, 2008
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Amend this!

Sorry Canada!

Oct 3, 2008
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So I may have said all of this before - I really don't remember.

How often has someone you know said that they were thinking about moving to Canada to escape the increasingly puritanical and idiotic direction this county is going? If you're anything like me, I'm betting the answer is often - and I'm betting you've said it yourself. I know I've said it, and thought it and really meant it on more than a few occasions. When Palin was announced, after I'd had a chance to find out what she's about - I again had that impulse. Followed very closely by the following:

I'm not going to move to Canada, I'm going to stay and fight.

To be clear, for me "stay and fight" means uproot my life and actually fight. Not donate some money (which I do). Not write my congressman (which absolutely helps). I'm talking quit theater and devote myself to making sure the people who bother to think about theater and art actually get to stick around and be heard (okay, and those who don't too).

So as things have gotten closer and I've had time to really process everything that this election means I've begun to take that one step further. The consensus of many of my friends is that if McPalin wins it's over - all over. I have such a distinct memory of the way I felt after the last election and this seems so much worse. So my thinking now is: why wait? Why should I wait for the bad guys to win in order to start fighting - doesn't that seem a little ridiculous? Gosh, if I were Sara Palin that would mean actually waiting until Russia invaded to start fighting - and we all know that's not what she does.

Snide remarks aside - can I really ignore what's going on? Can I ignore the social climate that got us here in the first place? Do any of those people who LOVE the "Maverick" party understand that what they're doing is taking things away from people who just want to live like them? How are they affected, really, by a federal marriage amendment? They'll still have their happy little wifey and kids and they'll still get to visit wifey in the hospital when she's sick. No skin off their back - it's all off mine. What, exactly, do those supreme court justices lose by overruling Roe v. Wade? Nothing. (well, maybe a little money since there'll be more unwanted kids to take care of and many more medical bills from back alley abortions gone wrong - but whatever).

So here's my conundrum: I have NO IDEA what to do. None. I still need a paycheck - how can I best work toward creating a world that I want to live in? Until I figure that out I'm going to approach it from an angle I know. I'm going to use theater. With the help of my awesome friends (many of whom don't even know it yet and one of whom helped me come up with it) I'm going to create a guerilla theater group to bring some attention to a tiny bit of this. I know it's a small thing - but you gotta start with what you know, right? Anyone interested?

The status

Sep 28, 2008
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Driving home one day last week I was struck by the fact that I've begun to view my life by what my Facebook status is going to be. As I made my way from YTN I went through the following:

Meggan is marveling that she has her her passport longer than Sarah Palin

Meggan is entertained by the Unicorn on the mini-van she just drove by

Meggan is marveling that the kids she works with have more Foreign policy experience than Sarah Palin

Meggan is wondering why no one bothered to tell her that the son of the state attorney general's son is in her show, so that she might have been able to avoid telling his Mom that he couldn't be with them on election night.

After rehearsal tonight I had a conversation with the director, one Mr. John Gordon Hill, wherein we wondered how it is that people are falling for all the lies and distractions thrown at them (specifically regarding the election).

Then I realized that maybe my predilection for structuring my life and my thinking on these little snippets of information is symptomatic of that very thing. We're so geared toward summations that give no actual story or knowledge. Just the facts. The headlines. The status updates.