Aug 28, 2003 12:12:49 PM

This is just a little peevy gripe but I hate that Google is not getting links for Tablet. I keep trying to find the article I wrote on cool places to visit in Seattle, and it just doesn't show up. However, I was able to find the article about why First Thursday has been so cool (a saga that continues as it came out that some of Seattle's biggest art dealers, like Brian Ohno and Greg Kucera, were the ones who wanted the artists kicked out of Occidental Mall. Shame on them!).

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Aug 20, 2003 2:24:09 PM

I was just talking to one of my coworkers (who is about to propose to his girlfriend) about the three keys to a successful marriage, as defined by me. I've been thinking about these things for a while, wondering what it is that has made my marriage work for ten years now when so many have gone by the wayside. I determined that there are three things that make our relationship work, and, while they may not be the same for every relationship, I do believe they do apply pretty broadly. These things are Communication, Compromise, and Commitment. I call them the three C's.

Communication: you need to tell your partner what you think, what you want, what you think about them. No one is a mind reader. But don't forget that when you're talking, you need to be listening, too.

Compromise: this has always been the hardest one for me. When you're in a relationship, you need to have trust that the other person isn't out to get you, and that you can share with them and not lose all that you have. It is not necessary to always have your way. But it is also bad to never have your way. Both people must be willing to compromise. It helps to pick someone whose fundamental values and interests are close to your own so that you never have to feel morally compromised, but rather that you're meeting someone in the middle in a fairly innocuous situation.

Commitment: this means commitment to making the relationship work. This does not have to mean sexual fidelity, although I do believe that item makes for an easier to manage relationship. But if you throw in the towel after one fight, you're going to have a very short relationship. On the other hand, it is good to know when to stop flogging a dead horse and cut the losses for both of you. Sadly, I do believe that some wounds never really heal, and it may be better to just move on and start fresh with someone else.
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Aug 12, 2003 1:19:04 PM

We went and saw Sylvia at ACT last Sunday. The acting was mostly good, although the text made me think that Albee was perhaps not really trying for fully-fledged characters but more Big Dramatic Types. Unfortunately the whole thing seemed to be like an episode of "The Twilight Zone," with everything moving toward One Big Joke (aak! Little Timmy is a murderous mind reader!), and the "punchline" ending was obvious about five minutes into the play. I've read that the play is supposed to be a serious look at where the boundaries are in today's society ("Just put in some other thing where the goat is!"), but I found it all to be a bizzare joke that Albee was playing on the audience. There was about 10 minutes of story in the whole thing. There was, however, a very touching scene dealing with a subject I've never seen handled in a realistic way on stage: how to deal with inappropriate sexual feelings of a child toward a parent (don't quote Greek tragedy on me now, it's just too obvious and I said realistic, not "Oedipus Rex").

I did find some good reviews of the play on the New York Times website. They seemed to warm to it over time, perhaps after it won a Tony.

Speaking of goats, I did this survey and found the answers humorous:

Your Dirty Mind by MySecretGarden
Enter your nickname
Freak? Or kinky?
Sources tell us you...baaa; a LOT. Goats talk.
Guess how many know?12
Your biggest fantasy is...To ass rape your boss. A LOT.
Your biggest secret is...You get horny reading my tales
Created with quill18's MemeGen!

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