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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
The Art of Erasure: from one World Cup to another (USA Ghana)
My point then was simple: Girls are inspired by male athletes. Girls and women are fans of the team. The ad is quite clearly about inspiration (and nationalism). The ad also mimics a Gatorade spot, produced on the occasion of Mia Hamm's retirement. That video opens with a little girl, and cuts to Landon Donovan. It features men and women, including her teammates and Michael Jordan - all thanking the legendary player for inspiring them with her passion, drive, and competitiveness.
When it comes to women's sports, we don't ask that boys and men be kept out of the frame. We want their support to be visible. Why, then, when it comes to showcasing the fan base for the men's game, must girls be excluded from the picture?
The logic used to cast that video underscores a growing problem in sport media - the decreasing visibility of women, in nearly every capacity. A recent study demonstrated that roughly 98% of mainstream sports media space is devoted to men's sports, to male athletes and their doings. Less than 2% is devoted to women.
This issue reared its ugly head today, in the most unlikely place of all. I sat down today with my niece to watch the US National Women's Team play their opening match in the U20 World Cup, which kicked off this week in Germany. Amazingly, they played Ghana.
At the half, incredibly, Ghana led 1-0. The US looked disorganized against a scrappy team playing a ragged defense which nevertheless seemed to neutralize the US's attacks. Were viewers allowed to enjoy a discussion exploring how the heavily favored US gave up a goal, and failed to equalize, in spite of what seemed like a dozen shots? No - instead we got a lame discussion of the state of the men's game in the US. For real. It was infuriating. I would have settled for a discussion of the senior squad's draw against Sweden the previous day. But a tired, worn out and totally half-ass debate about what the US men's game needs? Really?
I spent the day imagining what it would be like if we heard about the WNBA during NBA matches, how the women's league was doing during EPL broadcasts, and if we were offered a history lesson on the suppression of women's baseball during the All-Star game. It would be amazing.
Representations of female athleticism, of the accomplishments of women's teams, are so few, so rare that girls must look to people like Landon Donovan for inspiration - he's a LOT easier to see on TV than Sydney Leroux (who scored the second half equalizer today). Girl players look up to him and his teammates, even though they aren't nearly as competitive internationally as the women's squad. They should admire Donovan, Howard, Gooch, Dempsey et all. They are great players. And they should admire Leroux, Rodriguez, Wambach, Solo, Kai and their teammates too.
Girls who support the sport should never be squeezed out of the frame - unless the intention is to give them a jump on mastering the art of self-erasure.
For a recap of USA/Ghana, as well as other matches - including a great one between England and Nigeria - see All White Kit. Highlights below, thanks to AWK!
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Wambach, perhaps? ;-)ReplyDelete
Seriously, though, good post. Our women's team is the best in the world and, up until this World Cup, was responsible for the most-watched soccer match in American history (the '99 Cup final, which is incidentally the match that got me into soccer). And yet, the soccertubes have precious little about the recent US-Sweden friendly, the upcoming one tomorrow, or the imminent march to Germany 2011. Bwhat.
I expect the news vacuum on the U-20s since I don't know what goes on with any of our U-anything teams, men or women, and I follow soccer pretty closely. But barely even mentioning World Cup qualifying prep matches between the #1 and #4 teams in the world, especially when we live in the country represented by said #1 team? That's weird.
Thanks for the spelling correction - And for reading the blog and offering a comment!ReplyDelete
Great post! As a footy fan and a dad with a daughter, I appreciate your voice :-)ReplyDelete
Just finished a Saturday of Women's soccer TV viewing (U-20 US v Switz & US v Sweden friendly) and I have two quick comments: 1. Soccer is the only place, to my knowledge, where the women wear more understated footwear than the men. 2. Sydney Leroux is the best US player, period. Hope you're having a great trip.ReplyDelete
Thanks José, and GatG: Leroux is incredible!ReplyDelete
Good article.ReplyDelete
According to the early projected figures, FIFA are expecting 42% of the 2010 World Cup viewers to be female. Enough said.
I've made a reference to this (and the source) in a recent post (it's called "Planet Football") on my blog at www.earlybath.co.uk/blog .
Dear Ms. Doyle:ReplyDelete
When women start watching more women sports BOTH LIVE AND ON TV, the television stations and the sponsors will start showing more women events.
So far, women seem interested mainly in men's sports. Witness how every year the Pali Blues, an excellent women's soccer team, struggles to survive financially because there is very little crowd support. I don't want to think of what happens to lesser teams.
Also, viewership of the WPS broadcasts is appallingly low.
I know, someone could argue that this is a chicken-and-egg issue. I think the laying of the egg is first and I don't think it's fair to assign this task to the television stations. Now, I don't have the slightest idea on how women could start this tidal change.
Yours truly,
Daniel Ortiz
Feedback? Let me know what you think. Just an FYI: all comments posted to this blog are recorded, whether I publish them or not. I do not publish generally hateful comments - whether they be directed at me or at players and teams or other readers. I appreciate reader feedback, especially from those whose contributions add nuance and complexity to the story.


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Daily Poem - Week 2
A small grey house
In a quiet spot,
A dog, a cat, and a garden plot.
Isn't much,
But it's my ideal.
Dreamy planning
(Nothing real).
A small grey house
With brooding pines
Where I can sit and make my lines.
October 25, 2012
Fearful captives,
Laboring in chains.
A groaning Earth,
Soaked through with bloody stains.
All creation...I must set it free?
No, not my strength,
But that of Him in me.
The power to restore,
Refresh, renew.
To shape the twisted paths
And make them true.
The power to redeem
A human soul -
To heal a heart and make it
Truly whole -
It comes,
Not from my hand, but from above.
And I am nothing...
A mere conduit of love.
Inspiration, once she comes in and sits down, is terribly reluctant to leave.
I need to find
The 'off' switch in my brain -
The one that says
'Quit rhyming
And let me fall asleep!'
This really has nothing to do with my day. I just have these random thoughts...not really sure where they come from...but hey! I think I'm on a roll of fairly decent poetry! I'm doing much better than I did last week. Can I keep this up for four more days???
October 26, 2012
The faithful speak
And lilies bloom
Where all their words
Were trampled in the mud.
October 27, 2012
Christmas shopping early,
When I pretend
I'm organized,
And that this mindless spending
Is actually worthwhile.
Materialism central...
Why am I even here?
When I don't need a thing,
And nor (I think) do you...
Let's give our time
To Jesus
And stop caring
What these other people think.
Little cats come running
With poker tails up straight,
Delicately bounding,
Nothing quite as cunning
A bunch of wee cats running
With poker tails up straight.
No more rhymes now! I mean it! Why does my ability to rhyme desert me like this? Dear Rhyming Genius, what did I ever to do to deserve this treatment?
Actually, that was a very silly question. I'd rather you didn't answer.
October 28, 2012
Today will be
A poem day!
I'll grab a pen
And write and write!
I'll sit here by the
Cozy flame
And read while I
Prepare to write.
A clicking stove,
A sluggish plot,
A wakeful night
Upon my eyes.
A sinking flame,
A closing book,
And drowsy lips
That murmur
October 29, 2012
Grey and shaking,
Earth stands bare
In Winter's teeth.
Stripped of modest green,
The sycamore is pale and stark,
A skeleton of Summer grace.
Hide your eyes!
This decimation
Is no holy thing...
Sing the trees to sleep,
Awake the wind
And feel
the cold
Hey, look! The rhyme came back for my last day!
October 30, 2012
The sun comes up
And clothes the wood
With light.
My heart rejoices
At the
Golden sight.

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Biche's spacious, bright interior.
With a slight touch of the eclectic
Everything Bichae serves is organic and local, good for us and for the world around us. I went with the Bibimbap:
Fresh vegetables, whole-grain brown rice, glass noodles with burdock root, and salad with Chinese quince dressing. Everything was calm, clean, and, of course, quite tasty.
Biche's promises, to ensure health for you, for the producers, for the land, and for the animals:
- We source all produce from local farms that have been using exclusively organic cultivation techniques for at least 10 years.
- All eggs, chicken, pork, and beef come from animals raised organically. No GMO feed, no antibiotics, no growth hormones.
- We cook with five-grain rice syrup and various methods of fermentation. No MSG - only healthy raw foods and foods cooked at low temperatures.
Other menu items include a seasonal set meal, rice steamed in lotus leaves, a raw vegan platter, cream spaghetti made with soy milk and noodles from domestic grains, tofu and acorn jelly, seasonal vegetable pancakes, steamed pork, steamed beef ribs, and chicken soup. They also serve group meals at prices ranging between twenty and seventy thousand won, as well as a selection of fruit juices and alcoholic beverages. For a look at the whole menu, click on the above photo and explore the album. The prices may come as a bit of a shock, but try to keep in mind that they reflect the true cost of eating local, seasonal, and healthy food while paying farmers fair prices for their work.
Biche has also kindly offered to host and cater Daegu Green Living's next Eco-Film (yet to be chosen, but anyway...), to be held on the evening of Sunday, February 26th. Add it to your calendar!
Biche is located behind the Hwangeum-dong Taewan Honors Apartments about 1.5km south of the Suseong-gu Office subway station and 2km southwest of Mancheon subway station. The closest bus stop is Dongdo Middle School (동도중학교), which is served by the 349, 414, 427, 449, 순환3, and 수성1 buses. Check out the Green Guide map for more details.


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by José Antonio Pagola (English translation by Rebel Girl)
Buenas Noticias: Blog de Jose Antonio Pagola
April 28, 2013
John 13:31-33a, 34-35
It's the eve of his execution. Jesus is celebrating the last supper with his own. He has just washed his disciples' feet. Judas has already made his tragic decision and, after taking the last bite from Jesus' hands, he has gone off to do his work. Jesus says aloud what everyone is feeling, "My children, I will be with you only a little while longer."
He speaks tenderly to them. He wants his last gestures and words to be branded on their hearts: "I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another. This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." This is Jesus' will and testament.
Jesus speaks of a "new commandment" Where's the novelty? The watchword to love one's neighbor already existed in Biblical tradition. Various philosophers talked about philanthropy and loving all human beings too. The novelty is in Jesus' way of loving -- "love one another as I have loved you." Thus his way of loving will be spread through his followers.
The first thing the disciples have experienced is that Jesus has loved them as friends -- "I no longer call you slaves...I call you friends." In the Church, we are simply to love one another as friends. And among friends, equality, closeness and mutual support are cherished. No one is above anyone else. No friend is lord of his friends.
That's why Jesus cuts short the ambitions of his disciples when he sees them arguing about who should be first. Seeking self-interested leading roles breaks up friendship and communion. Jesus reminds them of his style -- "I have not come to be served, but to serve." Among friends, no one must impose themselves. All must be willing to serve and collaborate.
This friendship that was experienced by Jesus' followers doesn't generate a closed community. On the contrary, the friendly and cordial atmosphere among them makes them willing to receive those who need acceptance and friendship. Jesus has taught them to eat with sinners and people who have been excluded and despised. He has scolded them for pushing the children aside. In Jesus' community, it's not the children but the adults who get in the way.
One day, the same Jesus who designated Peter as the "Rock" to build his Church, called the Twelve, put a child in their midst, hugged him and told them, "Whoever receives a child such as this in my name, receives me." In Jesus' beloved Church, the smallest, most fragile and vulnerable ones are to be the center of attention and cared for by all.


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Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel traded the top spot in practice for the Russian Grand Prix, the latter breaking the lap record in a bid to open the gap to Mercedes.
Raikkonen was quickest in the morning having set a lap time on the Super Soft tyre a little ways into the session, with Valtteri Bottas behind in second and Lewis Hamilton third. Vettel was fourth quickest but couldn't put in a quick lap on the Super Softs after spinning on his first attempt at the final corner, then his next effort was curtailed when the red flag came out due to an errant engine cover from Esteban Ocon's Force India.
This was the second drama that occurred during the morning session, the first happening when homeboy Sergey Sirotkin who was filing in for Nico Hulkenberg stopped don track with gearbox issues. Despite Renault's best efforts to restart the car, it seemed like Sirotkin was unable to select a gear which forced him out of the session after just 10 minutes.
In the afternoon Vettel lead the timing sheets from Raikkonen and Bottas, after the drivers made the switch to the Ultra Soft tyre. Hamilton only ended up fourth quickest having abandoned his first run when he went wide at Turn 4, then briefly going third quickest on his second run before Bottas went a tenth quicker. The two Ferrari drivers set their lap time early on in the session again, with Raikkonen briefly going top before Vettel went two tenths quicker having went for another lap immediately afterwards.
Ferrari ended the session just over half-a-second quicker than Mercedes on the Ultra Soft, although there is still more pace to come from them as the Super Soft lap times showed that they were only two tenths adrift.
Max Verstappen was fifth quickest despite his long-run being disrupted with 20 minutes of the session left to go, reporting a "loss of power" over the team radio when he ground to a halt at the penultimate corner. Team mate Daniel Ricciardo could only manage sixth quickest, while Hulkenberg went eight quickest which was another positive sign for Renault amid their lack of power issues.
Stoffel Vandoorne seemed to be taking a leaf out of Fernando Alonso's book, when he exclaimed over the team radio mid-session in the afternoon about how the Force India passed him on the straight "from soo far back" and proceeded to call it "incredible." He ended up 16th quickest while Alonso was 12th quickest in practice two, the latter not far off the pace of the Force India's who just rounded out the top ten on their Ultra Soft runs.
Lance Stroll also seemed to struggle on the Ultra Soft runs, finishing in 19th quickest in the afternoon session having previously went ninth quickest in the morning.


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Research Project
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In animal expriment, repeated instillation of saline can significantly increase tumor size in the urinary bladders of rats Initlated with BBN.This promotion effect partially allevlated by early stage BCG application in the present model. The results indicate that great care must be taken in choice of the vehicle for administration of chemotherapeutics for control of urinary bladder cancer.Clinically, we compared effective and non-effective cases treated with intravesical instillation of BCG for prevention of recurrence of superficial bladder tumors. Fourteen bladder tumor patients under went transurethral resection, and H-ras, K-ras, or p53 genes were examined. LOH of p53 (7 cases) and RB (5 cases) was also assessad. There were 3 recurrences in the 2 year follow up period. One point mutation of p53,2 p53 LOH,and 1 RB LOH were observed. Only one of the recurrent cases had on LOH (RB). There was no apparent relationship between clinicopathological features of the original tumors, molecular biological changes and recurrence.Using 23 specimens from superficial bladder cancer patients, we analyzed the mutation and the participation of p16 tumor suppressor gene. There was no mutation of p16 gene in these samples. But, the decrease of participation was found in 7 sample and suppression or participation in transcription level was suggested in bladder cancer.Ar last, we examined immunohistochemical staining of three different antibodies of p53, PCNA,bcl-2 to 19 superficial bladder cancer specimens which were recurrent cases of BCG intravesical instillation treatment, and compared with non-recurrent cases. The result suggested that was some difference in PCNA and bcl-2 participation level between BCG sensitive and resistant tumor.
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After my earlier rounds at the Atholl Palace and Dalfaber courses on 18 June 2013, I wasn't really sure what to expect at the Ballindalloch Castle Golf Course, if I could find it. My sat nav didn't recognise the post code and as I was to find out, the course is a mile or so from the castle itself. More sensible folk might know that the course is on the main A95 road between Grantown on Spey and Keith. Ballindalloch Castle is reputedly one of the most beautiful and renowned castles in Scotland and has been lived in continuously by its original family since 1546. The Ballindalloch herd of pedigree Aberdeen Angus beef cattle was started in the 1860's, who are credited with starting this world-famous breed. The Course Guide goes on to say that the 6500 yard golf course "has been designed by Donald Steel and Tom Mackenzie, both internationally recognised golf course architects with courses in over 15 countries. They have created a heady mix of challenging golf and aesthetic appeal. The 9 hole and 18 hole format provides a fair test for golfers of all standards, with the Championship quality greens being a notable feature. the course is set on the banks of the River Avon, among 150 year old oak trees and with marvellous views of the surrounding heather-clad hills." So much for the Course Guide stuff!
The Ballindalloch Castle Course is a parkland/heathland layout with 9 greens and 18 tees that can be played as 2 differing 9 hole layouts or as a full 18 hole course. Regular readers of this blog will know that in such cases, Craig, Stu and I always play the 18 hole options to ensure that we can genuinely claim to have played every hole that is available on each course.
The 18 Hole Course measures a 5593 Yards, Par 72 from the Yellow Tees (and a more hefty 6495 Yards Par 72 from the Medal Tees). I'd been caddying at Renaissance and Luffness New for the previous 6 days (and up to 6 hours a round in a tournament at Renaissance!) and this was my third course on 18 June, so rather than walk the full 18 at Ballindalloch, I opted to play the Front and Back 9s simultaneously. This can be a risky approach if you're wayward off the tee or aren't concentrating hard to remember your ball positions and scores when playing 2 holes at a time to the same greens! Fortunately, the fairways at Ballindalloch were generously wide and extremely well-defined. Indeed, I can't think of any inland course that I've played in the past year or so that's been in better condition. The course presentation and overall condition was simply outstanding and with hardly a divot mark in sight. The weather was warm and mostly sunny, I almost had the course to myself, I was playing and there were no midgies, so apart from being pretty tired towards the end of the round, this was a perfect end to a long golfing day.
The 1st/10th are 478 Yards Par 5 and 395 Yards Par 4. The tee shots are blind but thankfully the rough here is short and the fairways were wide enough, even for me. A bogey, par start but I was already liking the course. This is the 2nd, a 125 Yard Par 3, but a 155 Yard hole from the 11th Tee. I parred the 11th but took a double bogey on the 2nd after finding a bunker off the tee. The 3rd/12th are simply terrific Par 4s, 439 and 367 yards respectively, with completely different approaches to the fairway. A wall and water hazard come into play when playing the 3rd, but these can be carried more easily when playing the 12th.
The 4th/13th are both Par 5s, at 494 Yards and 520 Yards respectively. Both are hugely difficult and the 13th is rightly the Stroke Index 1 Hole at Ballindalloch. This hole is a dog leg right with both tee shots played on an upper tier, where the fairway runs out after 275 and 301 Yards respectively, leaving you with a long second shot that drops 100 feet or more to the second part of the hole, as shown here. Curiously, the band of heavy rough on the steep slope between these sections of fairway is all out of bounds. If your drive from either tee is short or left your second shot will be completely blind (and potentially lost), so good drives are absolutely essential. Further on, you'll find that the green is smaller than you'd hope for and 2-tiered, sitting at an angle to the fairway. Take your time playing these holes and just admire the outstanding quality of the green keeping on show. I took a 6 and a 7 by the way!
Holes 5-8 and 14-17 are on that lower section of the course alongside the River Avon. The above photo also highlights the different tees on the 5th/14th. The 5th plays as a straight 334 Yard Par 4 starting from the treeline to the left of the 4th/13th green, whereas the 14th is a 382 Yard dog leg left starting from the centre right of the above photo. Either way, these are really good holes, but take care as a greenside bunker may be hidden from view unless you hit long drives. Holes 6 and 15 are straight Par 4s with 4 fairway bunkers coming into play, particularly off the shorter 15th hole.
Next, the 7th and 16th, a couple of really pretty Par 3s. The top photo below is the 7th, a 180 Yard hole. The shorter 16th is only 103 Yards. I parred both holes, but needed a good bunker shot and decent putts.
The 8th/17th are hugely difficult as the shared fairway is narrower and both drives are blind. Factor in a large deep greenside bunker that I found when playing both holes and you'll be grateful for the bogeys that I scrambled.
The 9th/18th lie at the top of a steep path beyond the 8th/17th green. These holes are 378 and 397 yards respectively and being slightly uphill, play longer than you might think. This is a view from the fairway up to the final green. I'd hit decent drives but still needed my 3 Wood! I bogeyed both holes and my total of 86 with 32 putts wasn't brilliant, but my net 75 was only 3 over net par and I was pretty tired when I finished. I strongly recommend you play this lovely course if you get the chance. Ballindalloch is close to the excellent heathland courses at Abernethy, Grantown on Spey and Boat of Garten and there are many other top quality courses within easy reach. As of 19 June 2013 I've now played all of the courses in that area, but Ballindalloch is on the road to the Moray coast, where I really enjoy the many local courses up there, e.g. Elgin, Forres, Hopeman, Moray Old and New, Strathlene, Buckpool, Spey Bay, Garmouth and Kingston and Cullen, so I'll definitely be trying to play Ballindalloch again.
I really can't over-emphasise the quality of this course. There's even a micro-brewery and whisky distillery currently being built beside the golf course car park! How much better does it get?


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I took advantage and picked up quite a few polishes when Cult Nails had their "new year" sale right before their prices had to go up. I Got Distracted had been on my lemming list for quite some time and I'm so glad I got it when I did.
I Got Distracted is a deep blackened green base with loads of holographic glitter and larger green glitter. The green glitter is what really stood out to me with this one and looked a lot like a "galaxy" polish. I will definitely be keeping this close in hand so that I can wear it often.
This is two flawless buttery coats of IGD, this really did have one of the best formulas for an indie that I've ever had. No balding, patching or streaking. Perfection!
I can't get enough of it! This really is stunning, and you'de have to have it to know the true love and perfection this polish really is.
DIESSS. So beautiful. Have you joined the Cult? Which is your favorite polish from them?
Some of the other goodies I picked up from the sale! :)
Until Next Time!


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3 | a world premiere by Eric Samuelsen
March 27-April 6, 2014
Th & Fri @ 8 | Sat @ 4 & 8 | Sun @ 2
Studio Theatre @ Rose Wagner
No late seating
Running time 90 minutes, no intermission
Click here for tickets or call 801.355.ARTS
*All performances are sold out. A wait list will form 30 minutes before show time in the box office.*
Three short plays about Mormon women confronting their own culture. In Bar and Kell, two women confront their own motives as they help a young mother. In Community Standard, a woman serving on the jury of an indecency trial is forced to confront issues in her own marriage. And in Duets, a woman confronts the choice she made to marry a gay man. Featuring Stephanie Howell, Teresa Sanderson and Christy Summerhays. Directed by Cheryl Ann Cluff.
REVIEWS 15Bytes | City Weekly | Feminist Mormon Housewives | Salt Lake Magazine | SLCene | SLC Feminist | The Salt Lake Tribune | The Utah Review | Utah Theatre Bloggers | Young Mormon Feminists
PRESS Blog Postings | Cast & Creative Bios & Playwright's Statement | City Weekly | Gavin's Underground | KUER's RadioWest | Standard-Examiner | The Salt Lake Tribune | The Utah Review/Selective Echo | UtahTheatreBloggers
RELATED LINKS Sunstone Article/KSL TV Transcript – Mormon Women and Depression: Are Latter-Day Saint Women Becoming Casualties of Depression? (KSL broadcast 1979, Sunstone publication 1985) | The New York Times (March 6, 2014) | The New York Times (March 1, 2014)
Who's Who | Playwright's Statement
PLAYWRIGHT ERIC SAMUELSEN has written for Plan-B since 2004, where his plays MIASMA, AMERIGO, BORDERLANDS, NOTHING PERSONAL, RADIO HOUR EPISODE 8: FAIRYANA, CLEARING BOMBS (which he also directed) and now 3 have received their world premieres. Twenty-seven of his plays have been produced across the country (most of them in Utah, but also in New York, Louisiana, Idaho and California). A three-time recipient of the Association for Mormon Letters award for best play, several of his plays have been published by Plan-B and Sunstone. His Ibsen translations have been produced in Utah, California and elsewhere (including A DOLL HOUSE and GHOSTS as part of Plan-B's Script-In-Hand Series). Eric blogs at MormonIconoclast.com.
STEPHANIE HOWELL* (Bar & Kell – Brandie, Tiffany, Aunt Pearl; Community Standard – Janeal, Julie; Duets – Sherilynn) is thrilled to return to Plan-B where she has appeared in BORDERLANDS (also by Eric), THE END OF THE HORIZON, THE ALIENATION EFFEKT, BASH, GET UP AGAIN (as part of THE ROSE EXPOSED) and all ten SLAMs. Most recently, she was seen as in GOOD PEOPLE at Salt Lake Acting Company. Other local credits include ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, BIG RIVER, A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM and SOUTH PACIFIC at Pioneer Theatre Company. Stephanie is a graduate of Northwestern University.
TERESA SANDERSON (Bar & Kell – Bar, Aunt Dot; Community Standard – Chris, Defense Attorney, Expert Witness; Duets – Candace, Laurie) received the 2013 City Weekly Arty Award for "Best Local Theatre Performance" for Plan-B's ERIC(A), which also toured to Good Company Theatre in Ogden, United Solo Theatre Festival in New York and Theatre Out in California. She has also appeared in Plan-B's PUSHING THE ENVELOPE: AN EVENING OF ONE-ACTS, ANIMAL FARM, TRAGEDY: A TRAGEDY, THE ALIENATION EFFEKT, EXPOSED, DI ESPERIENZA, MESA VERDE and all six RADIO HOURs (most recently Eric Samuelsen's EPISODE 9: FAIRYANA).
CHRISTY SUMMERHAYS* (Bar & Kell – Kell, Kenny; Community Standard – Bertine, Judge, Prosecuting Attorney, Defendant; Duets – Sondra) is a great Eric Samuelsen fan and thrilled to be part of Plan-B's #SeasonOfEric! She started the season by playing Mrs. Alving in Eric's translation of Ibsen's GHOSTS for the Script-In-Hand Series. Soon after she directed the reading of Eric's MIASMA at THE ROSE EXPOSED. To top it off by acting in a full production of another amazing Eric play…why can't every season be like this?!
Cheryl Cluff (Director/Sound Design) co-founded Plan-B in 1991 and is the company's Managing Director. She has directed all of Plan-B's RADIO HOURs (most recently Eric Samuelsen's EPISODE 8: FAIRYANA) as well as MESA VERDE, THE SCARLET LETTER and SUFFRAGE. Cheryl has also designed sound for nearly every Plan-B production since 2000.
Jennifer Freed* (Stage Manager) | Phillip R. Lowe (Costume Design)
Jesse Portillo** (Lighting Design) | Randy Rasmussen (Set Design)
*Member, Actors' Equity Association | **Member, United Scenic Artists
3 consists of three short plays in which Mormon women quietly confront and examine their own culture.
Mormonism is my life-long spiritual home. But loving a culture does not mean blinding oneself to its limitations. And chief among those limitations is a deeply rooted culture of sexism, of patronizing patriarchy. And above all, Mormonism can be obsessed with public relations, with how things seem, with appearances.
Often critics outside our culture point to the fact that Mormon women are not allowed the Priesthood. Well, what does that mean? Both more and less than our outside critics understand. The Mormon understanding of Priesthood is complicated and difficult; Mormon women participate in public worship and have some leadership role in Church proceedings. No, Mormon sexism is quieter than that, subtler. And it's tied to issues of body image and sexuality, it's tied to that focus on the way things look to the world.
So the three plays of 3, each with casts of three actresses, begins with that number: three. Three is an iconic number in Mormonism. We believe in a Godhead of three persons; not the Christian trinity, but three distinct individuals, each of them Gods. We'll sometimes describe ourselves as monotheistic, but it isn't really true; we worship an odd sort of Divine Committee; three Gods who run things. The Church Presidency consists of three Presidents; so does each Priesthood quorum, and each individual ward is run by three bishops. Three is magic. So a play called 3, three plays with three women is deliberately transgressive; we're coopting three-ness.
The first play of 3 is called Bar and Kell. It's a play about two women, Barbara and Kellie, who decide, with the best of intentions, to intervene in the life of Brandie, a really messed up third woman; advise her, work with her, help her. Laudable, perhaps, but what are their real concerns? Are they genuinely interested in helping someone in need? Or are they primarily worried about the image of their neighborhood, the way a poor family lowers their property values? They ignore the very real abuse in Brandie's life, and hurry her along towards marriage, rationalizing all the while what a positive difference they're making. It's a play that suggests the complicity of women their own marginalization; as long as everything looks okay, it is okay.
The second play was suggested by a Utah obscenity trial from some thirteen years ago, and also the re-release of the movie Titanic. Community Standard suggests the larger social world of a Mormon ward, so three actresses each play multiple roles, though each with one primary role. I thought that juxtaposing those two ideas, an obscenity trial and Titanic, might be an intriguing way to explore issues of sexism and sexuality. Janeal, a Mormon housewife, reflects on a time earlier in her life when she served on a jury intended to establish the community standard for obscenity in her Utah Mormon culture. That experience made her realize how much her husband has pornographied and objectified her. I've seen this in LDS culture; the idea that a particularly effective missionary will be rewarded by God with a particularly sexy wife, the way men rate the women in their wards, the continued fascination with polygamy, long gone from Mormonism, but still vestigially in our theology. And Utah, as a Mormon-majority state, consumes more pornography per capita than any other.
The third play, Duets, is about a situation I've seen far too frequently in Mormon culture, marriage between a straight LDS woman and a gay man with whom she has fallen in love. I've had many friends who had suffered the heartache of such misalliances. I've seen it end in tragedy, as it does in this play. Not always, thank heavens, but often enough, it leads to botched efforts at reparative therapy, to self-loathing and self-hatred among people who would be better off as friends. In this case, I thought it would be interesting to locate the play among female relationships, among women who have chosen complicity with a damaging status quo.
I had thought of the plays as simply three short plays about Mormon women. But as I reworked them, I came to realize the thematic unity that ties them together. So much of Mormon culture is about appearances, about the social pressure to conform, to share the same attitudes and desires, to seem. I've also felt the pressure to have a perfect yard or a perfect marriage or a perfect home or perfect children. I think that pressure can be damaging. Kell, in Bar and Kell, comes to realize that she doesn't actually care about Brandie as a person, that she actually does care about how Brandie's white trash presence makes the neighborhood look. And that knowledge devastates her. By the same token, Janeal, in Community Standard, realizes that her husband's obsession with her physical appearance has in some very real ways pornographied her, that she is as objectified and as commodified as the women in porn are to men who view it. And Sondra, in Duets, realizes she has allowed the lie at the heart of her marriage to destroy the man she loves the most.
The three plays of 3 are all quiet plays, non-explosive plays. But I have tried to explore my own culture honestly and truthfully, to peer into the darkest closets of my own spiritual home.


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Scott McLemee's recent consideration of the writer Isaac Rosenfeld in his IHE column, Intellectual Affairs, reawakens my own long fascination with Rosenfeld's life and work.
Scott titles his piece Dangling Man -- not only the name of Saul Bellow's first novel, but also a description of the sort of person Rosenfeld, Bellow's lifelong friend, turned out to be:
Scott McLemee's recent consideration of the writer Isaac Rosenfeld in his IHE column, Intellectual Affairs, reawakens my own long fascination with Rosenfeld's life and work.
Scott titles his piece Dangling Man -- not only the name of Saul Bellow's first novel, but also a description of the sort of person Rosenfeld, Bellow's lifelong friend, turned out to be:
By the end of his friend's life, wrote Bellow, his friend was living in "a hideous cellar room" from which any hint of bohemian glamor had long since fled. He had, Bellow wrote, "one of those ready, lively, clear minds that see the relevant thing immediately." But Rosenfeld's cutting lucidity left him filled with scorn for any motive involving the pursuit of success, let alone propriety. Bellow wrote that his friend "seemed occasionally to be trying to achieve by will, by fiat, the openness of heart and devotion to truth without which a human existence must be utterly senseless."
He imposed a grim discipline on himself, a kind of squalid asceticism. To the naked eye it looked like failure. When he died in a shabby apartment, Rosenfeld was 38 years old.
Rosenfeld's self-destructive insistence on cutting lucidity and honesty, on ceaseless rebellion against repression and materialism, inspired McLemee, as it inspired me:
[His] example loomed in my imagination for many years as essentially heroic. Rosenfeld's intransigence, his disdain for the gods of success, was somehow inspiring, albeit in ways that have not done me very much good over the long term.
"There's no success like failure," sings Bob Dylan in Love Minus Zero: No Limit. Only "bankers' nieces seek perfection."
Intellectuals stand at the opposite edge of the universe from bankers' nieces; like Rosenfeld, they generate an understanding of the world for us, the sort of understanding that changes the world, through their language, their uncompromising emotional sensitivity, and their resistance to falsehood and conformity. They stand, sometimes contemptuously, against what Rosenfeld, in his great 1957 essay about the University of Chicago, "Life in Chicago: The Land and the Lake," called the "more or less healthy and well-adjusted men and women of rather inflexible mind, who regard life not as an adventure but an investment."
I've written, in this blog, about other heroes of mine along these lines -- James Agee and Malcolm Lowry, for instance. Christopher Lasch is up there too.
Scott notes how difficult it is today for intellectuals to assume even a reasonably against-the-grain stance; he quotes George Scialabba on
the emergence of a "new variety or mutation" of thinker in the "modern, efficient machinery of persuasion" necessary to hold highly developed societies together. Scialabba calls this type "the anti-public intellectual, whose function is not criticism, not defense of the public against private or state power, but the opposite.… As a result of the intellectuals' incorporation en masse into the 'power elite,' it now requires far more training, leisure, and resources to penetrate the screen of corporate or government propaganda…."
I'd argue it gets even trickier than that. All sorts of postmodern simulacra of subversive thinkers are currently running around, inside and outside of universities, people who've studied the style of twentieth century alienated intellectuals and aped it.
Up against such odds, is the only option for the authentic intellectual what Scott describes as a pretty much Sisyphean effort to "crash through the screen every so often, with enough luck and a good aim"?
Here Scott returns to Isaac Rosenfeld, and the principled failure of his life. In the absence of a group of intellectuals to whom you can belong, and from whom you can expect support of various kinds, and in the face of constant come-ons from the larger culture in which you're invited to be co-opted as one more manipulator of symbols, you can of course say no. You can take up a close-to- total rejection of the world:
As psychic defense and compensation, [what can emerge is] a spirit of aloofness -- not just about your job, but towards life itself. [This spirit leads] to "embarrassment with human subject matter," said Rosenfeld [in a talk he gave toward the end of his life], the desperate cultivation of a "flair for the abstract… for the 'cool.' " This sensibility tolerate[s] expression of "nothing too immediate, too direct or emotional, because that would be considered 'square' or 'frantic.'
Rosenfeld is obviously wary of this Warholesque outcome; he satirizes its early stages in his University of Chicago essay:
The ideal is to live a passionless, 'cool' life, exposed, but uncommitted, to many worlds, and to be au courant in them all: to be able to chatter... of drama, books, art, jazz... Aristotle and other philosophers... to avoid extremes of romanticism in sexuality or love, and all extremes of feelings... One undergraduate I know calls the composite formo-frigidist..."
A mild formo-frigidism, if you will, can be an attractive midpoint; it can be where creative, or potentially creative, bohemians tend to locate themselves. I have in mind people like Paul Bowles - restless travelers, expatriates, creators in a variety of modes, people to varying degrees detached -- aloof -- from ordinary life.
Yet under the pressure of a world in which all the rewards, as one sees it, are in the direction of compromise, the serious writer might indeed eventually fall into utter rejection of that world, might find "no escape from the need," writes Scott, "to go it alone."
Need, though, says it all. After awhile, this isn't a decision to become radically aloof; after awhile, this gesture shades into pathology. Rosenfeld, Scott concludes, "turned into an intellectual equivalent of Bartleby the Scrivener, saying, 'I would prefer not to,' over and over, as the years slipped past."
I think the shading here may involve the transition from resisting the world on behalf of a set of ideas that transcend your particularity, to withdrawing from the world on behalf of the defense of your particular, wounded interiority.
In other words, you wouldn't, in the first place, have been Isaac Rosenfeld, brilliant and precocious social critic and artist, if you weren't already endowed with ferocious sensitivity, lucidity, independence, and stubborn convictions about the right way to live. But a series of frustrations and disappointments will make a stubborn, sensitive person like Rosenfeld move not toward forms of rapprochement with the world, but deeper into his own sense of things.
Intellectuals and artists of Rosenfeld's type take a very big risk -- Their ideas and personalities may be so powerful as to bring the world along, to some extent, with them. They may turn out to be like William Blake. Or like Bob Dylan. (Though note that Dylan too withdrew from the world at various points in his life, and still isn't exactly out and about.) Or people like Rosenfeld may simply fail; they may turn out not to have the combination of courage and clarity and obstinacy and charisma and whatever else you need to sustain a radical project, a radical existence.
It's intriguing to me that the final intellectual / soulmate about whom Saul Bellow wrote a novel was Allan Bloom, a man who loved wealth and luxury, a voraciously social animal who had no trouble accommodating himself to the mainstream politics of his time. Yet Bloom, like Rosenfeld, was for all that a principled and I think rather courageous intellectual. He came at things from the right, to be sure, but he shared Rosenfeld's inability to be anything other than sharply honest about what he believed, as well as his obstinacy about being exactly the strange person he was.
Indeed Allan Bloom wrote the sort of book -- a big, controversial book that provoked a national discussion of higher thought -- that everyone expected Rosenfeld to write.
Bloom might, in other words, have come to embody for Bellow a Rosenfeld who can survive, who can live, as Bloom seems to have done, a joyous life.
There's no success like failure, says Dylan. And failure, he goes on to sing, is no success at all.
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Coordinates and supervises the communication division of the Public Safety Department. Individuals in this job code are expected to work 40 hours per week or 1.00 FTE.
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The ability to effectively receive and transmit messages while working under pressure; demonstrated knowledge and skills with computers; the ability to make quick decisions while working under pressure; and the ability to act quickly and professionally in emergency situations are also required.
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The dark-eyed junco is a highly variable species, with several subspecies in about 6 groups. This individual is from the Oregon junco subspecies group, easily recognised by the distinct black hood. The infinite well of wisdom that is Wikipedia suggests that it may in the future be recognised as a distinct species.
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Why Feminists Won't Surrender The War On Marriage
Entitled "Dear Feminists: In The Name Of Fighting Poverty, Can We Call A Truce About Marriage?" writer Carrie Sheffield defends the institution of matrimony not on ideological, religious, or moral grounds, but statistically. Citing several figures that show that marriage improves women's lives as both wives and daughters, Ms. Sheffield takes 3rd Wavers-and-beyond to task over their wholesale condemnation of marriage as a plot of Teh Patriarchy.
Ms. Sheffield correctly identifies several key points about how single mother families are dragging us down economically and socially, and she calls out key factos like globalization and the social acceptability of illegitimate children as culprits. She quotes stats aplenty when it comes to why the traditional two-parent household is superior to the one-mommy-and-Uncle-Sam model. And she does, indeed, chew out feminism in general for smacking marriage around.
But in doing so she's ignoring some other pretty fundamental factors in the equation. The fact that we don't properly educate young women on the pragmatic reproductive choices they will face, for example, or our young men on the folly of young parenting without marriage. She wants feminism to put unwed mothers "in their crosshairs", but she's unwilling to follow the logic down the rabbit hole from where that leads. She's placing all the pressure on feminism, thankfully, instead of blaming the "victim" of the young man whose reproductive future was coerced, but she doesn't address feminism's essentially anti-male basis for its anti-
Ms. Sheffield also sees this as a class issue - but doesn't identify the harmful marxesque ideology ("man as eternal oppressor", regardless of class) that underpins and informs feminism's perspective on marriage. She proposes feminism "lay off" the topic of marriage, but doesn't say anything helpful about it laying off the general misandry that motivates feminism in the first place. At best, she says "marriage is good for women and children", and brazenly leaves men sitting, unsurprisingly, by the side of the road.
I suppose that's par for the feminist course. Identifying a real and valid method of improving the lives of women at risk for poverty sounds like it would be something feminism would be all over - but to do so they would have to abandon the victim mentality, the uber-rationalization that single moms are "men's fault", and then open up a rational and cogent discussion about the subject with actual men.
The feminist version of "marriage" implies no permanent commitment, no surety of a man raising or even seeing the offspring he is financially responsible for, and a permanent resignation of control over the family to his wife under pain of dissolution. There is no respect, here. There is no appreciation for the masculine contributions to the institution. Indeed, they are regularly denigrated and bashed, as are the husbands who contribute them. Feminist "marriage" is a transitory, temporary thing designed to fail and - in the process - humiliate and emasculate the husband.
He exists within the bonds of feminist marriage as a provider and protector, the "good" elements of marriage that feminism wants to keep, but is denied the respect and admiration a husband should receive (that would be a betrayal of the sisterhood) and he is vociferously forbidden from the patronizing, paternalistic, patriarchical practice of expecting sex from his wife and having full parental rights over his children.
For the feminist husband, marriage is an elaborate shit test he can never win, an invitation to hypergamy and divorce. The more obsequiously he praises and defers to his wife, the lower in status he descends among his male peers and the less attractive he is to his wife. Any opportunities for displaying his value as a man are mitigated or destroyed by his basic posture, and undermined by a preconception of masculine values as negative.
So why, then, would a man be drawn toward a situation which clearly doesn't have his interest in mind?
Marriage is a very particular institution, and feminism's attempt to re-write the nature of the beast have been disastrous for men.
Ms. Sheffield needs to realize that feminism won't let up on marriage because it cannot. To do so would betray the ideology that is the foundation of feminism, and more pragmatically it would force feminists, and women in general, to begin to talk to men, not at them. They can't do that because they are afraid: afraid that they will be held accountable for their past misandry, afraid that they will have wasted the time and energy invested in that misandry, and (worst yet) they would have to admit that the enemy, Teh Patriarchy, for the last 40 years or so.
maybe wasn't quite so bad as they made it out to be
Feminism can't support marriage, because then it would have to face the inconvenient truths about human sexuality, marriage, divorce, hypergamy, and other gendered issues that keep us from being "equal". Further, feminism can't support marriage for the rank-and-file working class single mom because to do so would, indeed, make the lives of those women better . . . and happy women make lousy feminists. Irate, sleep-deprived single moms who can't get a date are great feminists. Happy, fulfilled wives and mothers who can manage themselves in a real cishetero long term relationship are lousy feminists, even to other feminists. When outrage and anger are the coin of the realm, actually expecting an ideology to encourage people to be happier by compromising their ideals is futile.
More importantly, it can all be done without a wife . . . and until women can overcome feminism's war on wives, husbands, and marriage in general, millions of men are and will be content to live their lives without marriage. And if that somehow hurts single women and single moms, then that's a reflection on feminism, not on the men who refuse to go against their own best interests.
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- AnonymousJuly 8, 2014 at 12:46 PM
Good analysis. For my observations, I've found the perverted view of marriage (Marriage 2.0) to be the foundational bedrock of feminism. To deny any portion of Marriage 2.0 is to deny feminism itself. Simply put, Ms. Sheffield is just writing another "let's try to get them back on the plantation" piece.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousJuly 8, 2014 at 3:17 PM
Good stuff, I am inclined to agree that they will be unable to let go the victim card. They long ago stopped making any serious progress on any kind of social justice issue that could be deemed "reasonable" and can now only define themselves in terms of aggreivement and victimhood, thus the rise of intersectional feminism etc, essentially looking for finer and finer shades of issues to piss and moan about. Likewise the one sided nature of the debate where feminists talk at us or about us, but never with us, save for man-boobs and sycophants who hope to curry favor with them. it is my hope that they in fact accelerate the rate at which they become hysterical so that it may be easier to point out how non-sensical it has all become. Their solipsism will hopefully be their end. I have heard nothing from feminists in the last ten years that would contribute to the betterment of all society without condition or exclusion, without blame, without victimhood. Nothing. they can only act in response to the world, they are utterly unable to create anew.ReplyDelete
- LastangoJuly 9, 2014 at 10:08 AM
Rather than indicting feminism, Sheffield seems to give it a pass. First, she fails to point out that feminism actively celebrates and promotes single mothers -- both new-made, and single by divorce. Specific blame is directed only at "cool-pose-culture" among young lower-class males, not at feminism's "our-body-our-choice" yougogirlism about single women having babies. When she cites a study's finding that "a driving factor in the explosion of unwed births was widespread societal acceptance", she refuses to continue that thought by pointing out who is doing the accepting, and why. Poor women dependent on the state make great feminists and Marxists. Angry women who feel entitled to special rights in family court make great feminists.ReplyDelete
Second, Sheffield fails to wonder at feminism's callousness in creating foot soldiers for itself by steering so many women toward life-failure and unfulfillment.
Third, she can't bring herself to call on feminists to ask themselves why men have left the building, and if -- perhaps -- that might have something to do with 40 years of feminists demonizing and disenfranchising men.
At most, Sheffield seems to want feminists to make a tactical and strategic adjustment by modifying their rhetoric about marriage. That's no different than feminists themselves who, because they have discovered they need men to accept and support the next stage of feminism, are putting a velvet glove of outreach to men on their iron fist of coercive totalitarian power.
So Sheffield is still a feminist-enabler. She just wishes feminism would play its cards smarter so they can get what they want for themselves.
Feminism, like the rest of the Marxist and Neo-Marxist forms, is a very class concious ideology. Marxism is basically a way for the aristocrats to regain power by uniting with the lower class (the proletariat in the original form, but the lumpenproletariat in the modern form). Thus poor single women are useful allies, but are of no concern to the upper class that controls the movement (aristocracy is now defined by education, not bieth, especially by which schools one attended.)ReplyDelete
- MeggrzJuly 12, 2014 at 8:32 PM
You make a wonderful point. Happy wives make poor feminists. A recently married friend of mine talks big game on the Feminism front, but then admits to feeling like fraud because, essentially, she lets her husband take care of her. She's a good wife, too, and doesn't act like a stereotypical Feminist. Respectful, kind, vulnerable, appreciative, and *ahem* eager to keep her husband satisfied. She's just conflicted after a lifetime of being told to be a Grrl. (As is often the case with intelligent women.)ReplyDelete
I just make a point of dropping some red pill ideas in conversations with her, and try to alleviate her cognitive dissonance about the whole thing.
Couples like them give me hope.
- AnonymousJuly 15, 2014 at 2:20 PM
Honestly the one of the best ways to counteract feminism is to provide a living example and a well thought out argument against feminism as Meggrz suggest. People don't like to admit when they have chosen wrong. They are usually ashamed of their complacency or that they were so easily duped.ReplyDelete
I had the privledge last Sunday of having a discussion about the choices women have in their lives with a young mother expecting her second child. She and her husband have begun recently attending our church and wouldn't be coming back if they didn't like what they were hearing from the pulpit. This was the first time I had to talk with her at a reception and while she and I watched her 2yr old son playfully run between the legs of other adults and away from her husband I got to know more about her. She has a law degree and wanted to join JAG but for health reasons was denied. Some of her comments start to move in the direction of being apologetic or making excuses for not jumping into public law career. I stopped her and smiled and said I had been a SAM for 15 yrs. and would do it all again. The smile on her face and her body language spoke volumes. We talked for another good 20 mins in the end I pointed to her son who showing signs of getting sleepy and said:
He's only a child once, and he needs his mother now. When he gets older he'll need his father. You will have at least 60 yrs. to enjoy him as an adult. Don't miss this moment, it's worth it, it's what memories are made of.
If they keep coming I will be embracing this young woman and encouraging her but that can only be done by being willing to invite her into my life as a friend. Community is everything.
Keep up the good work Ian.
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It has been a busy couple of months here at Sleepover Shows. We've gone from a little blog to a full-fledged website and have been able to capture some great performances from bands that we love. It turns out that some of our favorite shows have also provided us with some extra songs. As we take the next two weeks to go home and spend time with our families, we'd like to seize the opportunity to present those extra songs to you!
First up is a song that we recorded just yesterday with Kelli Scarr. Although her show will not be up until next year, she was kind enough to cover Neil Young's Journey Through the Past for us in the comfy Rosebud Diner located in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Next up is Linda, a song from our show with Breathe Owl Breathe in the early fall. We were lucky to capture one of our last outdoor shows this season with them, before the leaves all disappeared.
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We've had a great time providing you with some of our favorite tunes this year, from some of our favorite musicians. We have only just begun, and look forward to seeing you in the New Year. Happy Holidays from the Sleepover Shows!
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