Available on DVD March 30th. Go to olydowntowners.com for more information.

From Seattle PI:

NEW YORK -- A prominent off-Broadway theater says it still hopes to present "My Name Is Rachel Corrie," a politically charged play about a young American student who was killed while trying to stop the Israeli destruction of a Palestinian home in Gaza.

"We have asked ... if we can do the play next season," James Nicola, artistic director of New York Theatre Workshop, said Monday in a statement.

Initially, the theater had planned the production for this month, but then reconsidered, drawing charges of censorship from its two creators, Katherine Viner, features editor of The Guardian newspaper in London, and actor Alan Rickman, who also directed the one-woman show.

Update -- 3/7/06:

Statement from the Royal Court Theatre

Statement from Vanessa Redgrave: The Second Death of Rachel Corrie

From The Olympian:

A woman robbed a Sterling Savings Bank this afternoon at 3000 Harrison Ave. N.W., Olympia police reported.

The robber was described as white, 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet tall, with pale skin and dark short hair. She had pale skin and wore a black long wool coat and black Capri pants. She did not display a weapon although she implied that she was armed, police said.

Of course, it would be gauche to display a weapon.

New Jersey State Legislature:

This bill would require an operator of any interactive computer service or an Internet service provider to establish, maintain and enforce a policy requiring an information content provider who posts messages on a public forum website either to be identified by legal name and address or to register a legal name and address with the operator or provider prior to posting messages on a public forum website.

Washington state's official apology to descendants of a Native Indian teen lynched more than a century ago offers a therapeutic footnote for the history books.

In the winter of 1884, Louie Sam was a 14-year-old Sto:lo boy living in British Columbia. When a Nooksack tribe shopkeeper was murdered, several residents pointed the finger at Sam. A vigilante mob of Americans rode into Canada, kidnapped Sam and hanged him from a tree north of the border. But now government officials here and in Canada are convinced Sam was not guilty. The state Legislature has approved a resolution offering the state's "deepest sympathy" to Sam's descendents.

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I'm taking a break from writing about you know what and our Caiman Lord and Masters have sworn us to silence about that other stuff. So, I do believe that it is time for the Dead Parrot Sketch.

Pet stores don't sell Nazis anymore. Not since the Seventies. They are too hard to care for. Feeding, bathing, providing socialization.
Some people say there is some sort of government ban. There is no ban. That's just an urban legend. No, the Nazis were ejected from the pet stores due to capitalistic cost analysis.

There are still Nazis in the wild, and any environmentalist will tell you that's a good thing. It's bad for the ecosystem when species go extinct and nature takes care of the Nazi by keeping its numbers in check... not too many.

Though the Nazi does have certain needs that people could help out with. The modern Nazi often looks a-shambles with their dress uniform unpressed or wholly makeshift. This is sad. There are groups that feed Nazis and help them dress better.

I remember, when I was a child that there used to be a big Nazi Safari that you could drive through. They kept and cared for the Nazis and families would drive through and look and take pictures. It was a cheap domestic holiday for the working folk. Many children have never seen a Nazi and children naturally love them because they walk so funny and flap their arms around.

Anyway, what we need is to return to those carefree days. Let's set up a Nazi Safari. Just like in the old days families can drive through and be reminded to keep the windows rolled up at all times.

The Nazis would at last have somewhere to go that they are welcome. They would be fed, cleaned and dressed. It would be educational for the kids.
And the Nazis are happier when they have fenced-off territory.

It will take everyone's mind off the war, economy, scandal.

Can we get some corporate sponsorship?

If you persist in feeding them, remember to keep your fingers out of the way.

It's only fun until you pump up the adrenaline and escalate it into someone getting killed.

Sunday 26th
Salsa Dance and Dinner Benefit for WROC
(Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition)
At Yes Yes
6 pm to 9 pm