Sep
12

The Lady On the Line (And Some Hot Tips About the TKTS Booth)

Marion on September 12th, 2013

It was late July, after the heat wave had broken, and I was on a mission – to obtain half-price tickets to The Explorer’s Club. The show would be closing soon, and the better-half – who wanted to see it – was about to take off on one of his work-related do-gooding missions. I got [...]

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Jul
4

What the F**k is wrong with people? Part 10,012.

Marion on July 4th, 2013

So a couple of nights ago, the better-half and I go to see Alan Cumming in MacBeth. There’s only a few performances left, and this is not a review, but here are a few observations: That Shakespeare guy, we all owe him for inventing the language: sound and fury, dagger of the mind, be-all-and-end-all, a [...]

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Feb
21

Earthbound Angels in Need of Decent Wages

Marion on February 21st, 2013

(On my my twitter feed this morning, Pankhearst, an uppity collective of independent women writers, twitted about something on the Bitch Magazine blog. How is it that I had never heard of Bitch Magazine before?  In what Nick Cave have I been living? I checked it out and saw a post about home health workers. [...]

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