Damek.

I just got back from seeing Patriot Act at the New York Theatre Workshop. If you’re in NY, go see it. Better than Fahrenheit 9/11. Forget the ties to the Saudis and his corporate lovefests. Forget the oil and the lying. This play exposes the Bush team’s ties to those in the right who want to turn America into an Old Testament-style theocracy. It’s not really a play, it’s more of an interactive multimedial lecture, like experiencing a book live. But it’s great. I mean, I’m already anti-Bush, pro-America, pro-reason and pro-democracy… but this really redefined my view of the Bush administration and the forces behind it.

It’s billed as “A Public Meditation” – an evening with media critic and political commentator Mark Crispin Miller, author of books including The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder and the upcoming Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney’s New World Order. It’s great – go see it if you can. It’s playing through July 22. Otherwise I guess you can just get his upcoming book, it probably covers a lot of the same material. It’s a clever title, too, considering it details how the Bush administration is acting patriotic while being nothing of the sort… They’re not conservative, they’re radicals; they’re not patriots, they’re fascist subversives; they’re not rational, they’re religiously pathological and anti-science; they’re not American, by any traditional measure.

This weekend has been A-OK. Started out with a great party celebrating the 1-year anniversary of two great guys – may you have many more! Some of us got a little too drunk, and a purse was stolen (I hope you don’t have too much trouble with the card companies!), but it was great fun while it lasted.

Then Alex and I spent the whole of Saturday and Sunday doing little else but watch movies on TV. Bad move, really, because then we feel caught in a sort of depressed lethargy… Only remedy is to get out and do something, but now it’s Monday and we have to sit around waiting. She needs to meet a friend to go shopping, and I need to hang around to see if she’ll need me to finish her laundry for her if they go shopping early.

That, and I just don’t really feel like going out to do anything. I could go jogging, but… Well, that’s why computer games were invented. Hi-ho, Alpha Centauri!

And anyway, we have to go out later to do some work at the coop, and then to see Patriot Act, a play I got free tickets to. I hope it’s worth it.