65 and staying alive

In less than a week I will be a senior. Despite my general demeanor, I have been dreading this birthday. I don’t really know why. It’s just a number isn’t it? I was, earlier this year in a bit of ... in a deep depression. Not my style. We had a great time on Maui. I have been workshoping more than usual . I love my little Zozo so much that her smile lifts me into the sky.  Margie is well. What happened was that my Monologue book was rejected after more than a year of teasing by Talon. I couldn’t write. I was  stuck.

 

I’m never stuck or depressed for very long. I decided, based on some good advice from Rob Crowston, to build a new website. If you build it, they will come. Theatretogo.net has been a lifesaver. It has brought me a great deal of credibility.  I have decided to self-publish M&M and it is now being carried by Biz Books.. I will be work-shopping for ABCDE. This is huge!!!!! It will mean gigs all over the province. And lots of book sales. best of all I am writing again. 35 minutes and counting for My new 50 minute play The Runaways which I plan to present at Fringe 2011. I am going to NY and they will be presenting the first scene of”My Music” Right now, at 65, I am on top of my game.

Liberals are ahead in the upcoming B.C. election and I'm pissed. There is no way they have such a commanding lead. Gordo in a megalomaniac who will ruin the salmon run, has done nothing to eradicate the Pine Beetle, and has no idea of the final cost of the Olympics. They will create a monstrous debt for the Province.

Unfortunately, The NDP platform is straight out of the 90's with a rather foolish claw-back proposal of the carbon tax. There is really nothing in their for the current situation.

What needs to happen... and this is why blogs are written... because we bloggers can with impunity solve the problems of global warming, the economic melt-down and world peace... is 

1. That the carbon tax should be maintained and every penny pumped into mass transit.

2. Taxes be raised for the top 15% of British Columbians and lowered for the bottom 15%. Th excess in revenue 

(and there would be millions) should go into social-housing and to protect the homeless.

3. Legalize and control marijuana...B.C.'s most lucrative export and use the income to fight the gangs that are beginning to own our streets.

I will still vote NDP but I wish they had more imagination.

That would be a start anyway.