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December Meditation Postponed

Intermission — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:30:48 +0000

Due to a medical emergency – non-Life threatening but urgent – there
will be no meditation tonight.

Instead we will conduct our final meditation next Monday, December 21st,
7:30pm PST / 10:30 EST.

Same time, same channel. You still have time to sign-up!

Thank you for your kind thoughts, and we hope you have an extraordinary and
creative week!

It’s the Intermission’s OMCCB Meditatation Team

Accents

Intermission — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:01:10 +0000

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The West Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you’re a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.
The Midland
Boston
North Central
The South
Philadelphia
The Northeast
The Inland North
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

Late, Late For A Very Important Date

Intermission — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:07:53 +0000

Okay, so there I was all logged on for our first OMCCB, happily inflicting some lovely Sondheim music upon our callers as we waited for the meditation to begin, and I begin to wonder why there was no “we.” It was just me. Alone.

Well, not that alone. I’m not alone alone. I mean: no one is on the phone with me. This can’t be. Even my band of friends are missing in action!

Uh… and as I’m tapping along to Bounce, feeling the appropriateness of that title song, I realize I have called into a conference number that no one knows about. Uh, like the wrong number even. I hang up and call the number everyone is patiently hanging out on, way more than five minutes late, and we get to it. More than a minute. Yup. And then we all fell down the Rabbit Hole.

So sorry, my daring OMCCB’ers. For those of you who waited, thank you, thank you, thank you. It was cool.

Speaks for itself

Intermission — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:49:16 +0000

I believe 1948 was the one year Gallup got it wrong…

Final Presidential Estimate: Obama 55%, McCain 44%

[Edited 11/04/08 7:05 am to remove broken widget.]

Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.

My, My

Intermission — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:32:05 +0000

While I’m not sure Pierce Brosnan should ever be allowed to sing in public, I loved the film version of Mamma Mia! I was worried because so many film adaptations of musicals fall flat, and even more worried because we ended up at a film house not known for its sound system. I’d see it again even in the same place, as it overcame even a rotten sound system, something Hairspray and (quite sadly) Sweeney Todd could not do.

Several years ago, the Beloved dragged me kicking and not quite screaming to the stage show in S.F., prior to its Broadway debut. She has a thing for Abba. Apparently a lot of people do. I was pleasantly won over by the musical’s infectious good-nature, surprised by a basic plot line that kinda worked, and thrilled to see so many women on stage in primary roles. I discovered that I, too, knew the words to most of the songs. (Oh dear, when and how did that happen?)

The book of the musical was written by Catherine Johnson, a British playwright. In an American Theater Wing symposium, Catherine said, prior to Mamma Mia! she said, “my work previously has always been in fringe theatre, and its sort of four actors and a budget of about 450 pounds.” She got to write the screenplay, too, and did an outstanding adaptation of her own work. She made it even funnier.