PRHS Drama this weekend by Director David Brown

"This year's winter play is a little different. The plays previously done at PRHS have all been full length plays, but this winter's play is a collection of nine short plays. This year, the challenge that I had was choosing the right play to accommodate all the good acting talent that the school has. I first considered a four person all women show but rejected the play as too small. Next I looked at a larger cast show, but that had no male actors, so that play was out. I finally decided on a series of short plays - each about ten minutes long and each with two actors. This solved the problem as all 17 actors have a leading role. Doing these shows have been a challenge for both my actors and myself as some of these plays have themes that go beyond the ordinary musical or comedy. The plays range from the dramatic to the comedic. One play has a sister trying to figure out if she should keep her baby and looks to her older sister fo help. Another play has the Tooth Fairy training an incompetent apprentice to take over the job. The cast includes veteran actors as well as actors who have never been on stage before this play. Here is a list of plays and actors."

Precipice
He - Phil Sasso-Lundin

She - Christina Saavedra

Beauty
Carla - Kelsey Velo
Bethany - Amanda Dutcher



Happy Mug
Anna - Stephanie Sorensen
Carole - Lacey Erickson



40 Minute Finish
Ike - Dan Lysaker
Terry - Amos Restad



Nightswim
Rosie - Amy Field
Christina - Jessie LeKang



Individuality of Streetlights
Andy - Dana Trygstad
Melissa - Kate Westby



Guys
Ty - Zach Holte
Duff - Kevan Miller



Game Theory
Mark - Phil Sasso Lundin
Paul - Dan Weckwerth



Tooth Hurts
Leon - Ben Brown
Mavis - Kristin Fox

Think summer Trygve Olson watercolor


Can anybody tell me where this is?
Is this Trygve Olson watercolor an imaginary place?
I think I know where it is, that's why I include it here.


what folks do here on January weekends (Mike McFeely-The Forum)

USA Today: 10 great places to revel in cinematic grandeur


While I have your Fargo juices flowing be sure not to miss James Lileks' Fargo



"As a teenager, I thought Fargo was a prison sentence. Consider this my apology.."

Anybody else feel the need to apologize? I'll give you space for free.

Hey Mom, got any of these in your stash? Bid for them now on eBay





I miss my morning latte at Riverside Coffee



Wanna stay healthy ? Best stay away from 56537 this weekend (ff in FF)
Go to the play in the Pelican Rapids High School Fine Arts Auditorium instead. Lots of good entertainment for $2. Starts at 7:30 p.m. tonight; 2:00 p.m. tomorrow (the football games will be cancelled due to the blizzard in Pennsylvania)


To those who live too far south to ever have experienced parhelia, this is the starboard sundog. The sun is to the left and further to the left is the port parhelion.


Brian Peterson

The dangers of exporting democracy
"Although President Bush's uncompromising second inaugural address does not so much as mention the words Iraq, Afghanistan and the war on terror, he and his supporters continue to engage in a planned reordering of the world. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are but one part of a supposedly universal effort to create world order by "spreading democracy". This idea is not merely quixotic - it is dangerous. The rhetoric implies that democracy is applicable in a standardised (western) form, that it can succeed everywhere, that it can remedy today's transnational dilemmas, and that it can bring peace, rather than sow disorder. It cannot."




The Speech Misheard Round the World
"But most ordinary Americans view freedom in quite different terms. In their minds, freedom has been radically privatized. Its most striking feature is what is left out: politics, civic participation and the celebration of traditional rights, for instance. Freedom is largely a personal matter having to do with relations with others and success in the world.

Freedom, in this conception, means doing what one wants and getting one's way. It is measured in terms of one's independence and autonomy, on the one hand, and one's influence and power, on the other. It is experienced most powerfully in mobility - both socioeconomic and geographic."


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While reading Seymour Hersh's The Coming Wars the other day, I noticed he uses beaucoups umlauts. Très chic I thought. My English teacher never told me what they were called in English. Now I know. Did you? Will anybody but Seymour ever use them?