Lora gave me a gorgeous image. A garland of red tomatoes. My faces.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Lora has a magic eye for photograhy
Lora gave me a gorgeous image. A garland of red tomatoes. My faces.
Pete and Michael
Pete moved to Seattle 15 years ago and has come back for the weekend each year, so far.
Michael also moved from Columbus years ago and has not missed one since returning.
Roger has historic DVDs from pioneering Datagang. circa 1972
Pioneering portable video cam footage includes first comfest. Moonshine Coop. artists, performances, political and community meetings. Lots of old hippies when we were young.
interested? Go to
datagang@ATT.net
Katie, opens me to Comfest 2009.
Comfest, the "Party with a purpose" is a traditional 60s consciousness artisan and artist steetfest. A huge local attraction now, the Comfest is larger than was ever imagened possible.
Started at noon today, Fri. Runs all weekend long.
I will be sending updates and pics.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Florida Macaw
I am testing to see if I can upload to Blogger from my iPhone. The image was taken last February and altered in Color Splash ap.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Harold Pinter Remembered at OSU Drake Theatre
Ann Hall, Harold Pinter, and Katherine Burkman outside of a restaurant in London after celebrating Pinter's then 70th b-day.
Don't forget to come this Sunday evening, May 17, at 7:30 p.m. to the Drake Performance Center, on the OSU campus,1849 Cannon Dr. in the Roy Bowen Theatre to see a memorial event for British playwright Harold Pinter: scenes, poetry, etc. will receive a staged reading. Produced by Ann Hall, Alan Woods, and Katherine Burkman.
Free and open to the public, so bring your friends and relatives and anyone else. Parking across the street or in lots to the right and left also across the street from the Drake.
Actors participating are: Mark Auburn, Alan Woods, Norman Singer, Linda Katz, Nick Lingnovski, Ian Short, Acacia Duncan, Matt Slaybaugh, Ellen Nickles, Susie Gerald, Ann Hall and Joy Reilly.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Studio Stu's Schedule
Studio Stu, my friend in upstate NY (the Catskils, near Woodstock) is a jazz virtuoso of the single string "Studivarius", a unique, well-crafted, custom made washtub bass. He plays it while crooning, solo or as part of a trio. Catch this act, if you can. Be sure to tell Studio you read about him in Innerartbits, and that Charlie says hello.
Hello, Everyone, Well, the full moon has come and gone and Spring is pushin' it's head out...are you ready for music?
This weekend I'll be travelin' around a bit, so try and catch me for some interesting musical treats. First up is Saturday afternoon in Rosendale, NY...this is a benefit for The Rosendale Street Festival...I'll be emceeing, and doing a set @ 3PM with many great acts performing all day.
Then I'll be headin' out to Ellenville, NY for a full night solo at one of my favorite places, Aroma Thyme Bistro...good, organic, exquisite food, an incredible wine list, and, live and in person, evocative jazz and exotic lounge.
AND, on Sunday, I'll be the emcee for a benefit @ Gotham Comedy Club in NYC for the Doug Flutie Autism Foundation...come on out and see nine acts of great comedy, Studio Stu doin' an early set, and help a notable cause as well.
Hope to see you out there and by doing so, encouraging venues to have live music...an always exhilarating experience....
All ways, sTuDIo.
www.studiostu.biz
SATURDAY MARCH 14 NOON-10 PM
ROSENDALE STREET FEST BENEFIT
STUDIO STU EMCEE & 3 PM SET
ROSENDALE REC. CENTER
1055 ROUTE 32 ROSENDALE NY
www.rosendalestreetfestival.com/2009MarchBenefit.php
SATURDAY MARCH 14 8-11 PM
STUDIO STU SOLO
AROMA THYME BISTRO
165 CANAL STREET ELLENVILLE, NY
845.647.3000
www.aromathymebistro.com
SUNDAY MARCH 15 4:30-6:30 PM
STUDIO STU EMCEE
THE SHOW; A COMEDY BENEFIT FOR AUTISM
GOTHAM COMEDY CLUB
208 WEST 23 STREET NYC
212.367.9000
www.gothamcomedyclub.com
www.paul-kelleher.com
Hello, Everyone, Well, the full moon has come and gone and Spring is pushin' it's head out...are you ready for music?
This weekend I'll be travelin' around a bit, so try and catch me for some interesting musical treats. First up is Saturday afternoon in Rosendale, NY...this is a benefit for The Rosendale Street Festival...I'll be emceeing, and doing a set @ 3PM with many great acts performing all day.
Then I'll be headin' out to Ellenville, NY for a full night solo at one of my favorite places, Aroma Thyme Bistro...good, organic, exquisite food, an incredible wine list, and, live and in person, evocative jazz and exotic lounge.
AND, on Sunday, I'll be the emcee for a benefit @ Gotham Comedy Club in NYC for the Doug Flutie Autism Foundation...come on out and see nine acts of great comedy, Studio Stu doin' an early set, and help a notable cause as well.
Hope to see you out there and by doing so, encouraging venues to have live music...an always exhilarating experience....
All ways, sTuDIo.
www.studiostu.biz
SATURDAY MARCH 14 NOON-10 PM
ROSENDALE STREET FEST BENEFIT
STUDIO STU EMCEE & 3 PM SET
ROSENDALE REC. CENTER
1055 ROUTE 32 ROSENDALE NY
www.rosendalestreetfestival.
SATURDAY MARCH 14 8-11 PM
STUDIO STU SOLO
AROMA THYME BISTRO
165 CANAL STREET ELLENVILLE, NY
845.647.3000
www.aromathymebistro.com
SUNDAY MARCH 15 4:30-6:30 PM
STUDIO STU EMCEE
THE SHOW; A COMEDY BENEFIT FOR AUTISM
GOTHAM COMEDY CLUB
208 WEST 23 STREET NYC
212.367.9000
www.gothamcomedyclub.com
www.paul-kelleher.com
Friday, February 20, 2009
Music in the Round benefit for Transit Arts
Tickets are going fast for Music in the Round, a special concert presented by Capitol Square Rotary to support the FREE youth arts programs of TRANSIT ARTS.
If you can't attend the event but would like to support TRANSIT ARTS you can make a donation at this link: TRANSIT ARTS Click and Pledge
City Rec centers closing creates demand for volunteers at Central Community House
Olde Towne Neighbors:
In response to closing city recreation centers and rising needs in our communities, Central Community House is pleased to announce that it will EXPAND its programming to Saturdays, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. beginning March 7. We CANNOT do this without volunteers to tutor, run programs, create fun activities and supplement staff in a variety of ways.
Can you play chess, run a cornhole tournament, teach basic computer skills (Word, email, etc.), set up a parent support coffee hour, play board games or tutor in elementary school subjects? Can you come on a Saturday for a couple hours, once a month or so? If so we need YOU!
We will have a volunteer orientation and Saturdays planning session this Saturday, Feb. 21 at 1:00 p.m. here at Central Community House, 1150 E. Main St. 43205. Please RSVP to Pam Argus (pargus@cchouse.org) or Liz Hughes-Weaver (lhweaver@cchouse.org) or call 614-252-3157 to sign up. (Please sign up ASAP so we know how many to expect!!).
Sorry for the late notice, but if you cannot attend the orientation but are still interested, please contact Pam Argus directly and she’ll get you on your way to volunteering at Central. Thank you!
Liz Hughes-Weaver
Development Director
Central Community House
614-545-2708Raconteur Theatre Company presents premiere of Isaac, I Am
Stephen Woosley, Lorelei Moore, and Derek McGrath. Photo by Sam Blythe.
Raconteur Theatre Company is pleased to invite you to the regional
premier of Isaac, I Am by Mary Steelsmith.
We spend a lot of our time in cyber space but how do we know what is
"real" and what is "safe?" How do we learn to trust anyone? Isaac, I
Am (winner of the 2006 Helford Prize) explores these timely questions
as Angela (Lorelei Moore) "meets" Ben (Derek McGrath), a funny guy
who's single and Isaac (Stephen Woosley), a grieving father.
Don't wait till you arrive – buy your tickets online now for $12! (or
$8 for students & seniors) http://raconteurtheatre.com/
For directions to MadLab's theatre:
http://raconteurtheatre.com/
Want to know more about the show? Check out our website!
http://raconteurtheatre.com/
Design Staff
Director: Mary Aileen St. Cyr
Scenic Design: Michael S. Brewer
Lighting Design: Andy Batt
Sound Design: Andrew Hartley
Costume Design: Jill C. Hartley
Stage Management: Patricia T. Jones
Cast
Angela: Lorelei Moore
Ben: Derek McGrath
Isaac: Stephen Woosley
Josh: Zachary Elgin Lape
Katie: Sela Williams
Ensemble: Bryanne E. Bornstein, Angela Cutrell, Suzanne Laird, Caliph
Scott, Ric Shoemaker, Anna Wang
Dates
8 PM Thursday, 2/26
8 PM Friday, 2/27
8 PM Saturday, 2/28
2 PM Sunday, 3/1
8 PM Thursday, 3/5 ***TALKBACK with playwright Mary Steelsmith
immediately following the performance
8 PM Friday, 3/6
8 PM Saturday, 3/7
2 PM Sunday, 3/8
8 PM Thursday, 3/12
8 PM Friday, 3/13
8 PM Saturday, 3/14
Photos by Sam Blythe
Monday, February 16, 2009
Was George Washington a gay pot smoker?
In this age of economic stress, is it time to re-evaluate the devastatingly expensive, unrealistic and unrealizable, unfair, infantile and totally failed War on Drugs? Harvey Wasserman poses a few provocative and timely questions in this article which he writes for the Colmbus Free Press. _charlie
Harvey Wasserman
Did George Washington raise hemp? Did he smoke it? Was he gay?
The easy answers are definitely, probably, and maybe.
The questions arise with pre-publication of the shocking satire PASSIONS OF THE PATRIOTS by “Thomas Paine,” which opens with Le General in the hemp-filled embrace of his beloved Marquis de Lafayette.
As Washington’s February 22 birthday approaches, his personal habits say much about today’s America.
Like virtually every Revolutionary farmer, the Father of Our Country grew prodigious quantities of hemp. It was (is) a profitable cash crop, easy to grow, with scant demands for cultivation, watering or fertilizing. As a hardy perennial, it needs no year-after-year replanting, nor pesticides or herbicides.
Early American farmers used cannabis for cloth, rope, sails, paper and much more. At various times its cultivation has been mandatory. Kansas was virtually carpeted with it during World War Two. In today’s conversion to a Solartopian economy, the cellulose of its stems and leaves, and the oil from its seeds, could be essential for green ethanol and bio-diesel fuels.
Washington and his fellow planter/presidents Tom Jefferson and James Madison would be astonished to hear that hemp is illegal. These early chief executives would certainly have told President Obama that a re-legalized cannabis crop would mean billions of dollars in desperately needed farm revenue throughout the United States.
As for smoking, I know of no significant communication among the Founders extolling their “great weed.”
But in one of his meticulous agricultural journals, dated 1765, Washington regrets being late to separate his male hemp plants from his females. For a master farmer like George, there would be little reason to do this except to make the females ripe for smoking.
The medicinal uses of cannabis were known to the ancient Chinese. Thousands of years later, it’s inconceivable American growers would not indulge in its recreational powers.
As for Washington’s sexual preferences, his marriage to Martha was sometimes suspect. Historians joke that he did not marry her for her money, but rather for her stocks, bonds, land and slaves. In a letter to a friend, he complained that there was “not much fire between the sheets.”
Ben Franklin, the ultimate liberal, loved so many women he joked that the great miracle in his life was that he contracted no related diseases. Tom Jefferson impregnated his slave mistress Sally Hemings as many as seven times. From Andrew Jackson to Bill Clinton, American presidents have been infamous for their sexual dalliances.
George Washington did not lack for female companionship. But his deepest affections may have been for his fellow warriors. His beloved brothers in arms included Lafayette and Alexander Hamilton. Both were married with children, but both excited his strongest comradely devotion.
That the general had no biological children of his own may have been due to a fever early in his life that could have rendered him sterile.
Or maybe not. It’s hard to imagine a gay George Washington in the 1790s. But in the 1990s, things might have been different.
The modern anti-choice assault, including California’s Proposition 8, flies in the face of all Washington and the Founders dreamed of for this nation.
Today’s Puritannical “sunshine patriots” seem hell-bent on running our personal lives. But America has NEVER been about that.
Let them contemplate an image of our first president, fresh from the battlefields and the hemp fields, desperate to marry his fellow winter soldier.
--
Harvey Wasserman’s HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES is at www.harveywasserman.com, as is PASSIONS OF THE PATRIOTS by “Thomas Paine”. This article was originally published by http://freepress.org.
Harvey Wasserman
Did George Washington raise hemp? Did he smoke it? Was he gay?
The easy answers are definitely, probably, and maybe.
The questions arise with pre-publication of the shocking satire PASSIONS OF THE PATRIOTS by “Thomas Paine,” which opens with Le General in the hemp-filled embrace of his beloved Marquis de Lafayette.
As Washington’s February 22 birthday approaches, his personal habits say much about today’s America.
Like virtually every Revolutionary farmer, the Father of Our Country grew prodigious quantities of hemp. It was (is) a profitable cash crop, easy to grow, with scant demands for cultivation, watering or fertilizing. As a hardy perennial, it needs no year-after-year replanting, nor pesticides or herbicides.
Early American farmers used cannabis for cloth, rope, sails, paper and much more. At various times its cultivation has been mandatory. Kansas was virtually carpeted with it during World War Two. In today’s conversion to a Solartopian economy, the cellulose of its stems and leaves, and the oil from its seeds, could be essential for green ethanol and bio-diesel fuels.
Washington and his fellow planter/presidents Tom Jefferson and James Madison would be astonished to hear that hemp is illegal. These early chief executives would certainly have told President Obama that a re-legalized cannabis crop would mean billions of dollars in desperately needed farm revenue throughout the United States.
As for smoking, I know of no significant communication among the Founders extolling their “great weed.”
But in one of his meticulous agricultural journals, dated 1765, Washington regrets being late to separate his male hemp plants from his females. For a master farmer like George, there would be little reason to do this except to make the females ripe for smoking.
The medicinal uses of cannabis were known to the ancient Chinese. Thousands of years later, it’s inconceivable American growers would not indulge in its recreational powers.
As for Washington’s sexual preferences, his marriage to Martha was sometimes suspect. Historians joke that he did not marry her for her money, but rather for her stocks, bonds, land and slaves. In a letter to a friend, he complained that there was “not much fire between the sheets.”
Ben Franklin, the ultimate liberal, loved so many women he joked that the great miracle in his life was that he contracted no related diseases. Tom Jefferson impregnated his slave mistress Sally Hemings as many as seven times. From Andrew Jackson to Bill Clinton, American presidents have been infamous for their sexual dalliances.
George Washington did not lack for female companionship. But his deepest affections may have been for his fellow warriors. His beloved brothers in arms included Lafayette and Alexander Hamilton. Both were married with children, but both excited his strongest comradely devotion.
That the general had no biological children of his own may have been due to a fever early in his life that could have rendered him sterile.
Or maybe not. It’s hard to imagine a gay George Washington in the 1790s. But in the 1990s, things might have been different.
The modern anti-choice assault, including California’s Proposition 8, flies in the face of all Washington and the Founders dreamed of for this nation.
Today’s Puritannical “sunshine patriots” seem hell-bent on running our personal lives. But America has NEVER been about that.
Let them contemplate an image of our first president, fresh from the battlefields and the hemp fields, desperate to marry his fellow winter soldier.
--
Harvey Wasserman’s HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES is at www.harveywasserman.com, as is PASSIONS OF THE PATRIOTS by “Thomas Paine”. This article was originally published by http://freepress.org.
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