Broken Glasses and Boring Musicals

My glasses have broken (again). One of the little pads that secure the apparatus to my nose broke off. I had fixed it two weeks ago with some super glue but the glue broke. So now I'm wearing my driving glasses that have glare reduction lenses but are not nearly as trendy as my other glasses. I need to head to Walgreens and get some super glue and just cake it on. I had tried tape yesterday and that was a disaster. Oh well, "human kindness is overflowing and I think it's going to rain today."

On another sour note, I'm doing the musical again this summer. We did a read through of the script Tuesday and the show itself is horrible. What makes the show fun is all the sex and earthy-ness but because the production is being put on in Rensselaer, IN we are cutting out a quarter of the show (literally; songs, pages of dialog, etc.). I love my part though. I play a straight laced, stuck-up, white, old, and uber conservative Washington official. Now imagine that type of person... got it... I have one of the funnier scenes in the show. If this show is going to be any fun at all for people to watch the entire cast is going to need lots and lots of energy. I pray we have it. Oh, by the way, we are doing "Kiss Me Kate".

Power is not a binary force relationship. Power is rather a web of relations that has no central authority that either has or doesn't have power. Rather power is something outside the control of all relations and in fact those who feel they have power over others are really under the control of the power of the web of relations for a society (wow that's a lot of prepositions). The web of society that holds people up in that society actually traps them as well. Even those who oppose the power are actually under it's control because all that those who can oppose oppose are the things that the power defines and thus those who oppose the power really reinforce its force and structures. I wonder if anyone is able to escape from the web. One might ask where did the web come from. That is a good question for I believe it has evolved just as culture and society evolve and thus wields power outside of society while completely supporting it by hiding its existence through abstractions. (just some thoughts I'm thinking about now-a-days)