This Could Easily Kill Us All

The D.C. City Council is considering a measure that would allow bars and restaurants in the city to serve likker until FIVE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING during the Inauguration, as well as staying open 24 hours a day. After which, I will likely never be seen again.

Heh.

I feel that something like this would be rather useful to have around this coming summer.

Hey look the American History Museum is open again.

"Bad Comedians" at Warehouse

Hey look! I'm in a free play reading that you can come see, if you want!

Bad Comedians by Shaun Raviv
Saturday, November 22nd at 3:00 PM at Warehouse.

What a fun way to spend a Saturday afternoon!

Because Horrible Cell Phone Pics Don't Really Tell the Tale

Seriously, 14th & NY isn't moving.

Hey look new york ave is also nuts.

For Obama.

It be also crazy at 1600 pennsylvania.

"Si se puede" is the chant here.

More 14th & U.

Rejoicing at 14th & U!

Monday Night Football plus dollar beer night at Duffy's equals awesome.

The Definition of Schadenfraude

A Look Inside The Mind of a Conservative F***tard

Over the last month or so, I've received at least thirty e-mails from someone who is apparently a cousin of mine. This particular fellow also happens to be a right-wing conservative dingbat. My first impulse was to respond to his idiotic e-mails, but I thought better of it, as engaging him is probably exactly what he wanted. However, while I have decided not to respond to him directly, that hasn't stopped me from being particularly pissed off about some of his e-mails. So, in order for me to vent, I present to you his most recent offering:

This message is to help those liberals who are at a loss at being called un-American, or who can't even comprehend any liberal being called anti-American. So with that said, below is a brief questionnaire to enable liberals to grasp this seemingly undeserved title. Be sure to answer all the questions honestly, and surely any liberal taken participating will be enlightened!

Why are liberals sometimes considered un-American?

1. Who is most likely to stomp on an American flag?
a. A liberal
b. A conservative
2. Who is most likely to burn an American flag?
a. A conservative
b. A liberal
3. Who is most likely not to recite the Pledge of Allegiance as an act of defiance.
a. A liberal
b. A conservative
4. Who is most likely not to place their hand over their heart during a rendition of the National Anthem.
a. A conservative
b. A liberal
5. Who is most likely to file a lawsuit to have any vestige of God removed from the Pledge of Allegiance or for that matter from any American institution, money, monuments or any other governmental building.
a. A liberal
b. A conservative

There that wasn't so hard. Some liberals will react to this with rancor, and cry foul claiming that it is narrow minded, misleading and twisting the truth. However that will just reinforce that they are missing the point. If moderate liberals ever want to get out from under the anti-American tag that they deem unworthy, then they need to extricate themselves from any alliance with the far left. Moderate liberals have accepted this alliance to strengthen their position and realize their political aspirations. However what they didn't realize was that they are ultimately being swallowed whole.

Here's my challenge to liberals. Come up with you own list of five anti-American questions that paint conservatives black.

I think a funny thing would be if I were to accidentally let slip that my idiot cousin's e-mail address is tturowski@gmail.com, and then my friends were to anonymously fill up his inbox with anti-American liberal propaganda.

I Actually Agree With John McCain!

As I'm sure you know, the Alaskan legislature has released their report on the whole Troppergate and it says that, in a shocking turn of events that no one would have expected from an mavericky, outside-the-beltway maverick, Sarah Palin abused her power as governor. Needless to say, the McCain campaign has gone into their standard spin mode, which is to accuse anyone that says anything mean about either McCain or Palin of being an biased Obama supporter. They're claiming that the investigation is a partisan witch hunt.

And this is where I agree with McCain and his campaign. It was partisan! And unfair! I mean, over two-thirds of the committee were REPUBLICANS!!!!! Alaskan republican legislators are IN THE TANK FOR OBAMA!!!!!

The Reviews Are In

DC Theatre Scene - "Oh, what a fine nasty little play this is, as mean as a wolverine and as tight as a Chinese box puzzle! ... O’Reilly, as the pea-brained youngest son, paces himself brilliantly. One of the great pleasures of this play is to see comprehension slowly flicker across his slab-of-ham face."

The Examiner - "Under Linda Murray’s direction, all four of the actors give wonderfully understated comic performances"

Washington Times - "A boom economy brings out the best in everyone, right? Irish playwright Gerald Murphy mines the falsehoods riddling this truism in his bitterly funny comedy 'Take Me Away,' getting its American premiere at Washington's Solas Nua theater under the clear-eyed direction of Linda Murray."

City Paper - "Take Me Away feels too bland to make much of an impression."

Washington Post - "The brooding of these three lads and their braying, oafish da -- all of them tied in a mysterious knot over the condition of the matriarch we never see -- occasionally hits fine notes of blind stupidity."

HMILGA

Those of you who know anything about hockey (i.e. probably no one reading this) may already know why it is that I have a deep, seething hatred for the Philadelphia Flyers. And now, wether you give a whit about hockey or not, I'd like you to join me in that hatred!

Hey Look, a Play! Part the Second

Hey, Look! A Play!

Solas Nua presents the American premiere of
Take Me Away

by Gerald Murphy

directed by Linda Murray

with Joe Cronin, Jared Hill Mercier, Kevin O'Reilly & Alexander Vernon
At Flashpoint, 916 G Street, NW

2nd - 26th October, 2008Thursday - Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm
PWYC Previews on September 30th & October 1st at 7.30pm

About the play:
Eddie (Cronin) and his sons are creatures of the night shift - it's the days that give them trouble. Bren (Mercier) surfs the net alone. Andy (Vernon) can't confirm the whereabouts of his girlfriend and son. Kev (O'Reilly) isn't throwing his money around like the IT whizzkid they take him for. A duty visit to their mother in hospital requires them to act like model siblings; but confusion around her illness and her mysterious good news become the fuel for this unsettling comedy which charts the meltdown of a family of men caught in the claw of tiger Ireland.

New Safeway opens tomorrow!

Karaoke in Old Town. Why am I here?

Because F--k Jack Evans

As long as I'm doing the whole politics thing, I'd like to turn my eye towards local politics and ask you to please, if you happen to be registered to vote in Ward 2, vote for Cary Silverman for city council. I, tragically, live just one block outside the boundaries of Ward 2, so I can't. If you need to know why you should vote for Mr. Silverman, just read this.

More VPILF Stuff

This pretty much sums up my feelings on Palin...

Given the way this election is heading, McCain risks being overshadowed by his running mate.

And that would be a bad thing.

I may not agree with the Republican nominee's policies, but I've never doubted for one minute that he is an honorable man.

After hearing Palin speak, I'm afraid she's going to take McCain someplace he doesn't really want to go.

Seriously, she scares the crap out of me.

Important Discussion Points, Should Anyone Ask You

Attacks, praise stretch truth at Republican convention

The fun of a carnival... For your mouth! Pretty much sums up this weekend.

The traffic and rain are behind us and we've arrived in Front Royal.

Stuck in traffic and rain. Not an auspicious start so far.

All packed up and ready to go.

Camping Time

Tomorrow, I, and several others, depart for the lovely Shenandoah Vally in the Commonwealth of Virginia for three days of "primitive" camping, a lovely way to finish off this summer on Labor Day weekend. God willing, I'll try to mobile blog some of it, but God only knows whether there will be any sort of signal out there. Not to mention the fact that, if you are reading this, you'll probably be there unless you happen to be Siobhan and/or BKDM.

Also, there may be some exciting new news on the theatre acting front, so go ahead and stay tuned.

Lunchtime at the pen show.

Look at all the pens!

First try with my brand new phone. Just wanna see what the picture quality is like. Hopefully I'll have pics of crazy pen people for you tomorrow.

The District is keeping score at Team Chimney Falls trivia night.

Look At Me!

For those of you who didn't get a chance to stop by and see me in Power House, you can see some wonderful pictures of the production here.

Welcome to MFPGC.

I don't know why I have a big, nasty cut on my face.

There be dancers at the NBM.

Hooray Beer!

Toay, I sold a pen to The Beer Institute. Which is awesome.

From their website:

Its origins are lost somewhere in the stone age, long before history was recorded. Anthropologists can only guess how it happened, and their guesswork goes something like this: once, in the camp of some nomadic hunter-gatherers, there was a supply of wild grain, painstakingly collected for food. Somehow, possibly in a sudden rainstorm, a pool of warm water formed where the grain was stored. In a short time the grain fermented, turning the water into a thick dark liquid. Some adventurous soul among these primitive people sampled the liquid, and found that it tasted good.

Man had discovered beer.

Post show drinks at the p-rat.

This Is a Test

I think I've figured it out.

Power House

So I figure, if nothing else, this blog will be a good way for me to diseminate information about my upcoming theatrical projects and such. This will be the first such entry.

Next up is Power House: The Super-Ozone-Friendly Happy-Disco-Energy Techno-Dance-Along Show. Performances are July 17-25 at the Source Theatre on 14th Street next to Saint Ex. For tickets and information, click here.

I'm Jumping Off the Cliff

To be fair, everybody else was doing it.