{"id":319,"date":"2003-07-12T19:32:53","date_gmt":"2003-07-12T23:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/07\/12\/teletubby-go-bye-bye-etc\/"},"modified":"2007-02-16T02:02:17","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T06:02:17","slug":"teletubby-go-bye-bye-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/07\/12\/teletubby-go-bye-bye-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Teletubby go bye-bye, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a> My softly glowing teletubby pal, aka iBook, had seizures and died yesterday, and this is seriously going to impair my blogging. Since I have gotten used to doing it while doing<\/a> other things<\/a>, it’s going to be a big change to now do it staying put at a desktop machine. Hey-ho. Meanwhile, I’m hoping for a miracle — namely, tt’s recovery. With the loss of my machine, all my “favorites” are of course wiped out, and this has implications for my lurking habits. There are blogs that I’ve been visiting but haven’t put on the sidebar for one reason or another. (Laziness? Yes, that too.) Since I now can’t jump to these sites via my “favorites” links, I’ll add them this weekend: there’s Chris Locke’s blog Rageboy<\/a>; Frank Paynter’s blog Sandhill Trek<\/a>; Wendy Koslow’s blog The Redhead Wore Crimson<\/a>; and Philip Greenspun’s Weblog<\/a>. I don’t know these guys at all, and I’m shy enough to feel strangely, as though I’m taking liberties with anybody whom I blogroll, but I think I need to get over it. I mean, it’s not like I’m asking them if I can “borrow” their undies. On to other things: A couple of days ago I came across a notice I should have known about earlier. It was in Monday Magazine<\/a>, in the Arts<\/a> section. This is what it said: Happy actors need not apply Pop quiz: What do Vivian Leigh, Stephen Fry, Patsy Kensit, Patty Duke, Jim Carrey and Drew Carey all have in common? (And no, they haven\u2019t all slept with Madonna.) The correct answer is they\u2019re all actors who have suffered from some sort of clinical depression, just as local actor <\/em>David Jure has. Now, Jure is looking for other depressed actors to join his <\/em>Journeyman Players. \u201cIf somebody\u2019s a performer and they\u2019re starting to feel really, really tired and their energy is just going down the tubes, they\u2019re crashing out all the time . . . that\u2019s the person we want to connect with,\u201d says Jure, who\u2019s holding auditions this Thursday and Friday at the George and Dragon for actors living with depression, bi-polar syndrome or chronic fatigue syndrome. (\u201cBi-polar is a buzzword right now,\u201d laughs Jure. \u201cI prefer \u2018fantasy challenged\u2019 myself.\u201d) Journeyman Players is already six people strong, but they\u2019re hoping to get that number up to about 12 or 14 so they can tackle some larger productions. \u201cEven if we get two or three really essential people, we\u2019re just so much further ahead,\u201d notes Jure, who says his dream project would be to mount a production of Shakespeare\u2019s Henry IV. One recent Journeyman project is Citizen Pain, what Jure calls \u201ca hard-hitting look at poverty issues in Victoria\u201d that\u2019s also a \u201cvery funny rip-off of Beckett.\u201d \u201cThese are brilliant people,\u201d he says, \u201cthey all have incredible IQs, but they\u2019ve all had a period of time where they just couldn\u2019t function.\u201d Given professional theatre\u2019s constantly dwindling local prospects, it shouldn\u2019t be hard to find some depressed actors out there. \u201cThat cattle call I went to was depressing,\u201d sighs Jure (…). If you can find the energy to audition, you can get all the information from Jure at 380-4089.<\/em> Subsequently checking the web, I found that about a month ago Victoria IndyMedia ran an article written by David Jure<\/a> himself, wherein he describes the frustrations (many specific to Victoria) that led to trying to start a theatre troupe with actors who have experienced mental illness. I know there are only about 3 of you out there reading this, but I figure this means that you’re probably a tad deranged, so this might interest you. I bet you know someone who would fit the bill of what David is proposing. And if you’re not here in this area and ready to audition, perhaps you know someone who could benefit from this idea. Coincidentally, as I type these words Victoria is hosting the stars: Pamela Anderson (of Baywatch<\/em> fame, and a Vancouver Island native), Deborah Kara Unger (ditto from here), Kiefer Sutherland, Wayne Gretzky<\/a>, and others (supposedly also Robin Williams). They’re here<\/a> for the Courtnall Celebrity Golf Classic, raising money for …mental health care. The golf tournament will raise money for a new Emergency Mental Health Crisis Stabilization unit for the Greater Victoria Hospitals Foundation. While media attentions focus exclusively on the glitterati, activists like David Jure try to organize the talent on the too-invisible street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My softly glowing teletubby pal, aka iBook, had seizures and died yesterday, and this is seriously going to impair my blogging. Since I have gotten used to doing it while doing other things, it’s going to be a big change to now do it staying put at a desktop machine. Hey-ho. Meanwhile, I’m hoping for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}