Shirking Work
I find myself with nothing to do right now, so I am giving myself five minutes from not doing anything to do something and blog since I have been rather negligent about it lately.
So the situation in Lebanon really pains me. Although I have only been there once I do a strong connection to the place considering it was a place of salvation for my grandmother and is where, essentially, our family begins. I also understand, from having seen first-hand, what the civil war did to the country and how people wanted to rebuild and get their lives back on track. Lebanon used to be quite a forward cultural and social hub....and then religion had to bitch slap it.
I don't feel any animosity for either side. I really just blame religion in this matter because I think both countries have been beaten down to death. Of course, don't fuck with the Israelies becasue they don't mess around.
I just wish everythinng could jut magically fix itself - and I know that is just naive and ignorant of me to think that anything in that part of the world will be so easily fixed. Once religion gets its claws firmly entrenched there is no easy band-aid solution. And I find it insulting that Condaskeeza Rice is sent over to try and smoothe things over. Let's just make it really obvious that we are throwing her under the governmental bus.
I just wish people would stop senselessly perpetuating the needless violence that only serves to create more steps backward.
Then again, violence is the driving force of change and growth...just look at the natural world.
On other fronts, I finally got back to writing last night after not having done so for about four weeks. The same goes for working out. So it took me a while to get back into running and writing. It was like riding a bike.
Of course, I have no idea HOW to ride a bike, but the simile still stands.
The marathon known as Six Guns is finally over and I now seamlessly move into City of Angels. It was one of the first three musicals I was ever exposed to and one of the first musicals from which I sang songs. So it has a rather special place in my heart - especially in light of a very good friend who exposed me to musicals and forced me out of "just being an actor."
Plans for New York are moving along well. Kidding. They are not moving at all. No point in planning a move that is six months away. But at least I am thinking about what I want to take with me, what I need to get ride of, and what I need to put away in storage.
And on a vainn note, although I like the layout of this site, I want to redesign it again. I am bored with it. Gotta keep things fresh. Maybe I'll bring back one of my first designs from the 90s that used frames and heavily patterened wallpapers.
I wish I could post something a little more brainy, but I feel uninspired and have no desire to ape the verbally pompous...
finish the sentence yourself :)
I find myself with nothing to do right now, so I am giving myself five minutes from not doing anything to do something and blog since I have been rather negligent about it lately.
So the situation in Lebanon really pains me. Although I have only been there once I do a strong connection to the place considering it was a place of salvation for my grandmother and is where, essentially, our family begins. I also understand, from having seen first-hand, what the civil war did to the country and how people wanted to rebuild and get their lives back on track. Lebanon used to be quite a forward cultural and social hub....and then religion had to bitch slap it.
I don't feel any animosity for either side. I really just blame religion in this matter because I think both countries have been beaten down to death. Of course, don't fuck with the Israelies becasue they don't mess around.
I just wish everythinng could jut magically fix itself - and I know that is just naive and ignorant of me to think that anything in that part of the world will be so easily fixed. Once religion gets its claws firmly entrenched there is no easy band-aid solution. And I find it insulting that Condaskeeza Rice is sent over to try and smoothe things over. Let's just make it really obvious that we are throwing her under the governmental bus.
I just wish people would stop senselessly perpetuating the needless violence that only serves to create more steps backward.
Then again, violence is the driving force of change and growth...just look at the natural world.
On other fronts, I finally got back to writing last night after not having done so for about four weeks. The same goes for working out. So it took me a while to get back into running and writing. It was like riding a bike.
Of course, I have no idea HOW to ride a bike, but the simile still stands.
The marathon known as Six Guns is finally over and I now seamlessly move into City of Angels. It was one of the first three musicals I was ever exposed to and one of the first musicals from which I sang songs. So it has a rather special place in my heart - especially in light of a very good friend who exposed me to musicals and forced me out of "just being an actor."
Plans for New York are moving along well. Kidding. They are not moving at all. No point in planning a move that is six months away. But at least I am thinking about what I want to take with me, what I need to get ride of, and what I need to put away in storage.
And on a vainn note, although I like the layout of this site, I want to redesign it again. I am bored with it. Gotta keep things fresh. Maybe I'll bring back one of my first designs from the 90s that used frames and heavily patterened wallpapers.
I wish I could post something a little more brainy, but I feel uninspired and have no desire to ape the verbally pompous...
finish the sentence yourself :)
