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Thursday Night Open Thread: Orson Welles

Posted: 29 Jul 2021 06:00 PM PDT

On July 25, 1936, after a five-night run, the audience at the Park Theatre in Bridgeport, Connecticut, applauded the closing night performance of Macbeth, produced by John Houseman and directed by Orson Welles for the Federal Theatre Project (FTP) of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

The FTP was one of five arts-related projects established during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to assist unemployed writers, actors, and artists during the Great Depression.

Welles, just twenty-one years old at the time, began his theatrical career directing Shakespeare's Macbeth and Christopher Marlowe's Tragical History of Dr. Faustus for the Federal Theatre Project.
Welles' designs for the plays were characterized by the creative risk-taking that exemplified his dramatic work. His use of racially integrated casting and "alternative" settings for these masterpieces was an innovation.

The guy was 21 years old.

Critics hailed the results as "startling," "splendid," and "colorful." After a series of sold-out performances in Harlem, Welles' "Voodoo MacBeth" took to the road, traveling to several cities on the East Coast.

— Just celebrating both the freedom and the capitalism of a country where, every now and then, people have gotten a break; a chance to show what they can do. And no, the government funding isn’t the point: if you think it is, you’re missing the point.

MENSAtivity Training

Posted: 29 Jul 2021 05:00 PM PDT

A lot of you are terribly worried that those who are outside of the “Everyone Is a Winner / Everyone Gets a Participation Trophy” society have been left behind. The MENSA candidates have been left behind. It’s true. Or, as we say: “It’s twue; it’s twue!” But that’s an in-joke.

This state of affairs, however, is is no joke. We are outside the mainstream of society, and are falling, ever steadily, ever farther behind.

What is to be done? And by whom? Not us: we are too busy congratulating ourselves on the use of “whom.”

Alarmingly — and in a perverse way, amusingly — there are those who thought that “MENSAtivity” referred to sex, gender, or men. Here’s a spoiler and trigger alert, which have now converged to mean the same thing: it doesn’t.

Increasingly, the world is being divided between the Hugues and the Huguenots, an issue which we all thought was settled a long time ago — like Greenland. It turns out it wasn’t, though, which is why Trump offered to buy it. His policy was Hugue.

Therefore, we need rhetorical justice and reParthenonations for this under-served community. Serve us with a smile.

Guess What Happened?

Posted: 29 Jul 2021 04:00 PM PDT

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Still Preferable to Democrats Having Anything To Do With Government

Posted: 29 Jul 2021 02:00 PM PDT

Assistant, 42, Is Charged With Impersonating a Dentist To Pull 13 Teeth From a Drugged Patient and Stealing $23K From the Office
Daily Mail | 7/16/21 | Snejana Farberov

Yowch!

A Nevada woman has been arrested, accused of burglarizing the dental office where she worked as an assistant and extracting 13 teeth from a patient – despite the fact that she is not a licensed dentist.

In the UK, this would have been heard in Crown court.

Laurel Eich, 42, from Reno, was being held in the Washoe County jail on Friday on $20,000 bond.
Eich has been charged with two counts of burglary and one count each . . .

COSTELLO: “One count each”?

ABBOTT: Yes, one count, Eich.

COSTELLO: So who was the other person?

ABBOTT: There was no other person. Eich got one count.

COSTELLO: Oh, you pronounce it “Eich”?

ABBOTT: Yes.

COSTELLO: So the charge was one count “Eich”?

ABBOTT: No, no: it was “One count each.”

. . . of grand larceny, conspiracy to commit burglary, and perform surgery on another without a license. She also faces three counts of violation of probation or condition of a suspended sentence.
According to the Washoe County Sheriff's Office, patrol deputies responded to an after-hours burglar alarm at a dental office on Sun Valley Boulevard May 3, and found the door ajar and a back window broken.
Inside, the deputies discovered that $22,861 in cash and checks had been stolen from a drawer.

Illegally extracted, you might say . . .

But wait: how did they deduce that amount from an empty drawer?

During the investigation, detectives identified Eich, who worked at the office as a dental assistant, as a person of interest in the burglary, and also learned that she performed 13 tooth extractions on one patient at an earlier date, according to the sheriff’s office.

So many questions about this patient…

Authorities said Eich admitted to multiple people, including detectives, that she performed the medical procedure and used anesthetic disposed of by the dental office.

… and about the other people she admitted it to…

“Wait Till Your Fodder Gets Here”

Posted: 29 Jul 2021 12:00 PM PDT

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