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Hadestown Pro-shot and PCHH Podcast

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I saw the pro-shot in the theater the day after I listened to the podcast - so I went back and re-listened to the podcast which was super helpful. I'm with Margaret that the actor playing Orpheus doesn't do anything for me, but I felt like that worked really well in the role, since before he makes the hike to Hades there is nothing to take seriously about him. The boot: it was and wasn't distracting. We saw them put it on his in the opening montage, I did spend some time wondering if it was necessity or artistic choice - figured it had to be necessity because it would be so bad for the actor's body to do that eight shows a week for years - but with the exception of his final dance with Persephone I think it made it better in a lightening in a bottle sort of way. He was threatening instead of camp. Andre De Shields has lived long enough to be an icon. That man is 80. He should give hope to all mid-to-late career actors who haven't shown as brightly as they hoped....
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2026 April 21 Day #4

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2026 April 20 NYC #3

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 I have never seen so many French people outside of France. Bloody metropoles with their mushmouthed loquaciousness.  More complicated vocabularies that I'm used to, which is a me problem. Working from 8:30 to noon to finish the notes I didn't get done on the train.  Switched with someone so they could sit together and got a seat with out a tray table.  Probably wouldn't have finished anyways but didn't help.   The computer is a black hole.  Finally made it out of the hostel at 2PM and up to Washington Heights, Lights up on Washington Heights - ((The Lin-Manuel Miranda of it all is not lost on me.))  Climbed the mountain - okay, a hill, but it was TALL and I have been walking up lots and lots of steps for DAYS.  Woman I met on the way down says people lose an average of 10-15# when they move to New York.  I can see why. Aside - in the subway yesterday there were three doughy looking white people who were so clearly "NOT FROM AROUND HERE"...
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2026 April 19

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 My fourth subway ride of this trip will be my third on the #1 9:16: 103 and Broadway, only served by...you guessed it, the 1 train. There it is.  If you're old enough, you know how it felt. I looked at the museum, and I thought about going through there.  I went to breakfast instead.   2PM 7PM
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2026 April 18 RIC-NYC

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MAP OF SAVED LOCATIONS: aka - the options Starting this to keep Family up to date without endless texts that one relative despises.  I’ve showed up early, I was at the station before the pick up time   Southeast Asian driver at best guess  only got slightly lost at WC. 5 out 5 stars.   My bid for Business Class was accepted, so when the train was delayed by a car on the tracks at Main St  (Way to go RVA  although the 757 cars do the same thing with tunnels.) did not have to stay in line for a good seat.    Yesterday, patient finished at 4:15, I sat down to sign a few things and when I looked up it was 4:48.  I raced out of the office, taking my stethoscope and head lamp with me.  64 was 64, got diverted off to Route 60 - Old Richmond Hwy - but getting on past the blockage in Bottoms Bridge it was clear sailing to RVA.  My older cousins went off to their cocktail party and I got to hang with my younger cousin. We alternated betw...
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TAXES

0-30,000 0% 30-60000 10% 60001-90000 25% 90001-120000 33% 120001-183000 50% 183001 + 33% No deductions, none.  I'm not attached to the brackets, I just kind of threw it together, but given that I paid a higher effective rate than Mitt Romney the year he ran for president, I would like to see it be fairer. Updated 10 years later: that wouldn’t work. It would have to be a wealth tax. Lower Mil rate, but on EVERYTHING. 
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Email to Senator Heller, copied to Murkowski and Collins

Sir, having watched your statement on the current proposition I wanted to reach out.  I  live in Virginia, but spent most of my life in Maine.  I voted for a number of Republicans in the past, I voted for Senator Collins in 1996 and again in 2002. The current republican party seems to be in service to the rich, the Russians and the racists.  To value smaller government does require this.  I have probably become a Roosevelt Democrat and will rarely again vote Republican, but there should be a dynamic tension between those who wish to expand government services and oversight and those who wish to constrain it. I'm a supervising physician in a public health clinic and I tell the clinicians and the accountants, that if either group gets everything they want, we're doing something wrong.  I feel the same way about government. If you believe that the goal of government is to serve the people, would you consider reaching out to Collins, Murkowski and a few o...
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