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Or at least develop a sense of humor.
North Carolina Congressman Vernon The Black Jesse Helsm Robinson has always been weird and corrupt. But this is just plain bizarre:
Vernon Robinson, who has run a series of brash advertisements about the two-term Democratic congressman, charged that Miller wants to import homosexuals to the United States and supported scientific studies that would pay teenage girls to watch pornography.
Those are San Francisco values, not North Carolina values, said Robinson, repeating a common theme of his campaign.
Does anybody buy that crap? I mean, does anybody
really think that Brad Miller wants to import homosexuals to the United States? And if not, doesn't that make Robinson a
liar unfit for office?
| Yesterday, earthquakes came to the Triad.
Today, .
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I'll be unable to see her.
- Hey. There's a current production of the people seem to like.
Be nice if more people could come to see it. Audience reaction has been good. (See ad in right sidebar)
- Old people in Maine not your cup of tea?
How about living dead high school students? Theatre Alliance's production of opens this week. Info .
Not-so-local arts news: Newsweek has an article on , a show I blogged about over a year ago, and which I might see in its very limited NY run.
| Dear Citizens of Winston-Salem,
Please stop being such assholes. When you go into, say, a coffee shop, or a restaurant, or any other public place, please stop talking on your cellular telephones.
It's rude. When you come up to my bar to place an order, hang up first. Because it's very difficult to decipher your mumblings about what you want me to serve you if you're in the middle of two different conversations.
But if you don't hang up, that forfeits your right to get angry at me if I screw up your drink. You aren't allowed to complain that your drink was made incorrectly if you were talking to Madonna on your cell phone at the same time. So, unless you really are talking to Madonna (in which case, please tell her I say hello), then hang up your f***ing phone and talk to me.
This may be a good time to review certain rules of cell phone etiquette.
It's a real problem. Writing for Road Travel magazine, Denise Mcluggage reports of an incident where two men in a cafe were beaten and their phones destroyed by two others after the pair ignored repeated requests to curb their loud and continuous yakking on their phones.
Keep conversations brief to terse. Use an at-table call primarily to make an appointment for a more appropriate time for a call-back.
If you simply must be available you can put your phone on vibrate - say for your anticipated dinner companion to tell you that he is caught in traffic like a grape in aspic so have another drink. (If your phone does not have a vibrate capability maybe it's time for a new one.
)
Practice speaking in a quiet conversational tone. If no one looks your way I think you've got it.
Check at the entrance to be sure your phone is off. If you're compulsive, check for voice mail at breaks.
(Remember, you used to have to go home to check your messages.)
If the only time you could get tickets to take the kids to The Lion King coincides with the only time a major mucky-muck is available for a conference call, put your phone on vibrate close to your heart and dash for the exit at the first tremor.
If you forget both off and vibrate and your phone rings, turn it off instantly. (And as unobtrusively as possible so nobody will suspect you are the jerk responsible).
No matter what: DO NOT ANSWER IT!
Consider the reasons you are in such a place and be there totally.
Turn off the phone, or better yet check it with your coat or tote bags.
Turn off your phone.
If you are expecting a call of extreme importance, ask if it is acceptable that you receive an inaudible signal so you can leave the room to take the call.
Leave the cellphone at home, in the car or at least turn it off before you enter. God may call you but it's unlikely He will use Verizon.
Follow airline personnel instructions. Usually cellphones must be off as soon as the aircraft doors are closed until the doors open again on arrival. (Unless otherwise informed on long apron delays etc.)
Do not talk on the phone while someone is trying to take your order in a restaurant, locate an upgrade for you on an airplane or return the shoes you had half-soled. Attend to the face-to-face business totally even if you have to ask the one on the line to hold. Continuing to use the phone while nodding and signaling to the person in front of you is belittling and so extremely rude I've only seen the obnoxiously self-important do it.
| Apparently, a bunch of zombies held a protest in Austin this past week:
A good time was had by all.
That is, until the pirates showed up, staging a counterprotest.
Why do I bring this up? As a shameless plug :
I haven't seen the show, but I hear good things. Also, I wanted to say that I think this is Jeff Driver's best poster ever.
P.S. I should also plug and , both of which I hope to see this weekend (both close this weekend).
I've heard nothing but good things about both of them.
And, oh yeah -- we're working really hard to bring you in a few weeks, so mark it on your calendar.
| For many of my friends, I point to this looking back on 50 years ago, just down the road.
On Feb.
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