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| Monday, October 29th, 2007 | | 9:20 am |
Prayer from a LJ friend
by jadedphoenix08 Our Father, who art at Fenway, Baseball be thy game. Thy Nation come, World Series need to be won, On Earth, then on to the Cask 'n' Flagon. Give us this day, a perfect Papi, And forgive us our losses, As we forgive those, Like Bill Buckner. And lead us not, into desperation But deliver us from any losses. For thine is the Power, And the Glory, To beat the Rockies, Forever and ever....the Yankees suck A-men! WOOT SOX!!! Current Mood:  awake | | Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007 | | 12:50 pm |
Come see me in the Underbelly PLAY, (Durham, NH)
"The Underbelly Play," a new, historical comedy by George Hosker Jr, which shines a light on the dark side of Portsmouth, New Hampshire's past, will be presented in the theater at the Mill Pond Center, Durham, NH, on May 26 and 27 and June 1,2 and 3. The play is an outgrowth of the "Underbelly Tour" of Portsmouth, created by Hosker and writer/historian Laura Pope. The tour, which has gained national attention on Chronicle and National Public Radio, and has been picked as a "must see" by AAA, explores the seedier side of Portsmouth's history, including the murders, scandals and Red Light district that were influential in the creation of the port city. This tongue-in-cheek production presents real history in a way that will at once educate and might have you falling out of your chair with laughter. History does not have to be boring, and "The Underbelly Play" is where history and theater meet for a belly laugh. Hear the tale of Ruth Blay, who was hanged because the sheriff was hungry. Discover how piracy played a large part in the life of Gov. John Langdon. Hear the real story behind the Smuttynose murders. Meet the Black Mystery, and discover how she got her name. Find out why Cappy Stewart would fire his cannon into the river every time a ship would come into port. "The Underbelly Play," which features period costuming, authentic music and more humor than you can shake a stick at, stars Craig Fogg, Kathy Horrigan, George Hosker Jr., Erin Lemire, Marian Marangelli, Dennis Purdie and Norm Smith. Friday and Saturday performances will begin at 8 p.m., while the Sunday show will have a start time of 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for students and seniors. For reservations, call (603)380-6142. Reservations are strongly suggested. A special gala including food and drink will be presented Saturday, May 27. Tickets for the premiere are $25. The Mill Pond Center for the Arts, which is located just off Route 108 in Durham, NH, is a nonprofit cultural center. Current Mood:  creative | | Wednesday, April 4th, 2007 | | 2:57 pm |
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| | Monday, March 19th, 2007 | | 1:16 am |
If you happen to be in anywhere near NH around tax time
Come see ----- (and, yes, I am in it, both as a performer and the stage manager!) The Lakeside Players' Dinner Theater Cabaret ECHOES OF BROADWAY Chadbourn’s Restaurant Route 4, Northwood, NH and the Lakeside Players present Echoes of Broadway Directed by Bonnie Bergeron Friday – Saturday April 6 & 7 @ 7 pm Friday – saturday April 13 & 14 @ 7 pm Sunday April 15 @ 2 pm Join us for a fun evening of song and dance, fun and food! For information, meal selections and reservations, Call (603) 664-5557 or (603)942-5992 Adults, $25 Seniors and Children under 12, $22 | | Friday, February 23rd, 2007 | | 8:55 am |
Two more nights!
VAGINA MONOLOGUES @ UNH, Durham, NH February 22, 23 and 24 Thursday, Friday & Saturday 7 pm Granite State Room [ Tickets at MUB Ticket office $7 student $10 non-student ] All proceeds go to women's health clinics and shelters. | | Sunday, October 8th, 2006 | | 11:56 pm |
| | Monday, October 2nd, 2006 | | 11:10 pm |
I play Constance
Contact: George Hosker, 603-380-6142; Laura Pope, (207) 439-8210 The Underbelly Scavenger Hunt Melds History, Clues, Theater and Adventure Set for Halloween Weekend: Sat. & Sun., October 28 & 29//Begins 5 pm in front of the Rusty Hammer PORTSMOUTH—Though the informative and irreverent walking tour, called The Underbelly Tour of Portsmouth, NH, has concluded its 2006 season, the history and theater troupe is presenting a new Halloween event called The Underbelly Scavenger Hunt. Tapping new and established reserves of local history, the actors of Vatican Productions once again step into character, this time waiting for participants in the Scavenger Hunt to find them hidden around town. Once found, each of these historic characters dispense their own distinct brand of bawdy humor and an historic clue. Once all the clues are collected, another riddle is solved and winners emerge to win a variety of prizes, including tickets to theatrical and historical events The Underbelly Tour was created by Laura Pope and George Hosker two years ago as a means of entertaining and educating the public on an adults-only, hour-long waking tour. Not your average tour, The Underbelly focuses on the grittier, authentic history of the city not found in most walking tours and taps one of the city's other great commodities – its acting community – as costumed, period presenters of this history. Pope, a career journalist, compiled the history contained in the tour, while Hosker, an arts leader, playwright and actor, gathered a troupe of actors – many regulars in the now dormant Piscataqua Faire, a Renaissance Faire on the waterfront– to lead the tours. Underbelly characters include Silas Deane, the purported double agent during the American Revolution; Minerva, the Tavern Wench at the Bunch of Grapes Tavern; Clive, the grave digger; Olive the Trollop; Constance the Librarian and Johnnie, the provincial governor. Most of these characters are based on actual figures from our past; their presentations are factual with a large dose of improvisational and wit thrown in for good measure. In fact, the Underbelly Tour is most often described as "where history and theater meet for a laugh." Featured last year on television's "New Hampshire Chronicle" and this year on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," the tour has attracted an underground following of locals and tourists alike. This same sense of history and humor infuses the Underbelly Scavenger Hunt, created to challenge the history buff, engage the adventurer fond of a good puzzle and people who want to experience a one- or two-hour gallivant about town with friends. Teams of one, two, three or four people will be given a set of clues and will be set off in different directions; those starting off early may have an advantage. The Scavenger Hunt begins promptly at 5 p.m. in front of the Rusty Hammer, the unofficial headquarters for all Underbelly presentations. It also ends there. Tickets are $10 per person. Children must be accompanied by an adult. For more information about The Underbelly Tour, The Underbelly Scavenger Hunt and more Vatican Productions events, including their interactive dinner theater programs, call (603) 380-6142 or visit their web site at www.underbellytour.com | | Saturday, September 16th, 2006 | | 10:40 am |
The Federal Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld the state ban in Florida on adoption by gay and lesbian parents.
This may take one very special little boy away from the only family he's ever had.
For more information, see ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) angry-biscuit's post here about 10 year old Bert, his family, and what YOU can do to help let him stay. | | Friday, September 8th, 2006 | | 1:08 am |
upcoming show is getting hate mail
this was in the local paper: Church photo in bad taste To the editor, the real joke! I address Vatican Productions as I ask, "Remember the limbo? How low can you go?" Is business so bad that you found it necessary to use a picture of my Catholic Church, the Immaculate Conception Church, to promote your play "God's Cruel Joke?" A "farce" is what you call it. For those who did not see the picture, it was in the Portsmouth Herald's Spotlight magazine on Thursday, Aug. 31, and is a picture of a man supposedly dressed as a priest, standing in front of a statue of Our Blessed Mother and Baby Jesus and our church as the background. The caption reads "God's Cruel Joke." Oh yes, I did do my homework and called your office only to be insulted by being told that I was ridiculous in taking offense to your advertisement among other things such as the anti-Catholic content of the play. You refer to it as a "farce," and it is only fair to give the public the real definition of "farce." Webster's Dictionary; definition of farce: 1. Stuffing for fowl. 2. A low style of comedy generally written with little regard to regularity or method. Farce is that in poetry as grotesque is in a picture. The persons and actions of a "farce" are all unnatural and the manners false." The writer is a Portsmouth resident. | | Thursday, September 7th, 2006 | | 12:12 am |
| | Sunday, September 3rd, 2006 | | 11:08 am |
You can repost this too...
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They could be silently suffering RIGHT NOW and not even know it.
It doesn't have to be that way.
DO something - make a difference - declare your love.
Don't wait until there's no choice, do it while you have one.
There is no excuse.
Read angry_biscuit's story. Celebrate Elissa's life and musical legacy. Save someone YOU love.
[click here for more] | | Wednesday, August 30th, 2006 | | 12:54 pm |
upcoming show
Vatican Productions presents God’s Cruel Joke to run at the West End Theater September 8-17. God’s Cruel Joke, a new comedy by George Hosker Jr., will be presented September 8-17 at the West End Theater, 959 Islington St., Portsmouth, NH. Tickets are $12 and can be reserved by calling (603) 380-6142. Reservations are strongly recommended. Adults only please. God’s Cruel Joke is a farce concerning two brothers who can’t seem to find the right life partners. While one brother is straight and the other gay the two always seem to attract people from the wrong sex – God’s Cruel Joke! The hilarious comedy features local stars including Marian Marangelli, Norm Smith, Dennis Purdie, Kathy Horrigan and George Hosker Jr., former Executive Director of the Prescott Park Arts Festival. Vatican Productions was started in 2004 by writers and producers Laura Pope and George Hosker Jr. Their previous work has included The One’s That Got Away, M. is for Marian and the Underbelly Tour of Portsmouth, which has received national acclaim both on NH Chronicle and National Public Radio. Their upcoming work, A Dickens of a Christmas, will premiere over the holidays. | | Friday, August 25th, 2006 | | 12:04 am |
York Beach, ME
ON a whim, I went up the coast this evening and spent some time at York Beach. I parked right by what sounded like an indoor roller coaster ... it was the back of a small arcade with lanes of candlepin bowling!!! Right next to that was an arcade with skee ball. It was like going back in time! I was glad to see kids still love skee ball. And Golden Rod taffy. | | Wednesday, August 9th, 2006 | | 10:12 pm |
very important
 | You scored as Karen. you are KAREN WALKER!!!!
You are rich beautiful and drunk, and you know it! You love to tease your friends and you are a bit of a show off! Money is number 1 for you!
Jack | | 100% | Karen | | 100% | Grace | | 86% | Will | | 86% | Leo | | 57% | Rosario | | 43% | </td>
Which Will & Grace character are you?
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| | Tuesday, July 18th, 2006 | | 10:22 am |
reposting/
This seems important enough to get out to as many people as possible that I going ahead and reposting it in Livejournal: *** HATE CRIME RALLY *** Rally in Response to Hate Crime WHEN: Saturday, July 22, 2006 11:00AM WHERE: Monument Square, Portland, Maine POSTED FROM www.EqualityMaine.org - July 17, 2006 7:00pm On July 3, 2006, Linda Boutaugh and Keri Fuchs were victims of a horrific hate crime. Vandals broke into their Poland, Maine home and destroyed everything breaking windows, writing obscenities on their walls, and trashing their belongings. For more on this crime, please click here: http://www.unlockablebox.com. Since there has been no public outcry from the town of Poland, the LGBT community will step up and provide a forum for expressing outrage to this crime. EqualityMaine, Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence, Maine Civil Liberties Union and others are will hold a rally and press conference on Saturday, July 22nd, 11:00 am, at Monument Square in Portland, to express our outrage at this despicable crime and to question the lack of media coverage. EqualityMaine has also set up a Hate Crime Victims Fund to help Linda and Keri through this difficult time. Aside from losing virtually everything, Linda and Keri were in the process of selling their home and moving to East Millinocket. The buyers backed out of the sale once they learned of the crime. | | Sunday, April 30th, 2006 | | 9:56 am |
| | Saturday, April 22nd, 2006 | | 12:25 am |
Take back the night
We just had Take back the night here at UNH... I am reposting this from Glitter_body who borrowed it from [info]miranda_lavias & [info]sirinial A lot has been said about how to prevent rape. Women should learn self-defense. Women should lock themselves in their houses after dark. Women shouldn't have long hair and women shouldn't wear short skirts. Women shouldn't leave drinks unattended. Fuck, they shouldn't dare to get drunk at all. Instead of that bullshit, how about: If a woman is drunk, don't rape her. If a woman is walking alone at night, don't rape her. If a women is drugged and unconscious, don't rape her. If a woman is wearing a short skirt, don't rape her. If a woman is jogging in a park at 5 a.m., don't rape her. If a woman looks like your ex-girlfriend you're still hung up on, don't rape her. If a woman is asleep in her bed, don't rape her. If a woman is asleep in your bed, don't rape her. If a woman is doing her laundry, don't rape her. If a woman is in a coma, don't rape her. If a woman changes her mind in the middle of or about a particular activity, don't rape her. If a woman has repeatedly refused a certain activity, don't rape her. If a woman is not yet a woman, but a child, don't rape her. If your girlfriend or wife is not in the mood, don't rape her. If your step-daughter is watching TV, don't rape her. If you break into a house and find a woman there, don't rape her. If your friend thinks it's okay to rape someone, tell him it's not, and that he's not your friend. If your "friend" tells you he raped someone, report him to the police. If your frat-brother or another guy at the party tells you there's an unconscious woman upstairs and it's your turn, don't rape her, call the police and report him as a rapist. Tell your sons, god-sons, nephews, grandsons, and sons of friends that it's not okay to rape someone. Don't just tell your women friends how to be safe and avoid rape. Don't imply that she could have avoided it if she'd only done/not done x,y or z. Don't imply that it's in any way her fault. Don't let silence imply agreement when someone tells you he "got some" with the drunk girl. Don't perpetuate a culture that tells you that you have no control over or responsibility for your actions. You can, too, help yourself. If you agree, repost it. It's that important. | | Wednesday, April 19th, 2006 | | 10:36 pm |
| | Tuesday, April 11th, 2006 | | 11:35 pm |
speak out
Just attended an event at UNH that was a speak out on hate crimes. I missed the first two parts of the program, the keynote speaker and the march because I was at work until 7 pm but I did catch the last part where people, one by one, spoke out about their own experiences and thoughts in regard to hate crimes. Very powerful and the stories ran the whole gamut of the very obvious incident of the openly gay man who was beaten up this weekend to the more subtle hate crimes of people looking down at you because you are fat or calling you names because you wear glasses. So many of these crimes go unreported too ... obviously things like being beaten up or raped have legal avenues you can follow and these crimes are reported as I am painfully aware of because of the Clery Act (Public Law 101-542); I went to high school with Jeanne Clery's brother Howard and my heart went out to him when I heard what had happened to her. Death is the ultimate hate crime. Not to say that a lesser hate crime doesn't cause a death of spirit. Not sure where this leaves us but I saw this in regards to Earth day today and it fits for me: One earth for everyone, one earth for everything.... Our differences may be what we have in common ... one earth for everyone, one earth for everything. |
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