FURIOUS nads! by The One True b!X

It’s possible that this is sacrilege, given the profound skepticism I’ve seen about the proposed name change for local baseball team the Portland Beavers, but: Honestly, I like all of the supposed options, and in fact find myself partial to the Portland Wet Sox. In fact, I think that name is awesome.

This morning I woke up feeling like I’d already been through four days this week. Obviously, the reality was that it’d only been two. I won’t bother to explain why the rest of the week is going to feel about a month long.

Something like two decades ago, I obsessively was reading the plays of prolific playwright Don Nigro (recently mentioned here), including ordering from Samuel French manuscripts of plays they hadn’t yet published. I’ve only managed (and, again, something like twenty years ago) to see one production, of a play called The Curate Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Specifically, a production in Vermont which butchered the critical moment at the end meant to give the play the entirety of its meaning. This morning I discovered that the Lakewood Theatre Company shortly will hold auditions for a production of that very play early next year. I don’t really care if the production is extraordinary or horrible. I just hope they get it right.

“Dr Saadi Othman, adviser to Gen David Petraeus, told BBC News that the [unjustified detention of eight Iranians invited to help rebuild the Baghdad electricity system] had ‘nothing to do’ with US President George W Bush’s speech on Tuesday, in which he strongly criticised Iran for its alleged interference in Iraq.”

All the big news seems to happen before I’ve had a chance in the morning to check in. I’m partial to the four-word statement from the John Edwards camp: “Better late than never.” Now we get to wait with baited breath to see if the GOPresident really does try to appoint Homeland Security Secretary Jerkoff to replace him.