None of us are traitors till we are

[sovay]

In the wake of the blizzard, the temperature rose a degree above freezing in the blue-and-white brilliance of sun and the local topography of snow-walls to shoulder-height compressed and calved like ice shelves. I had the impulse to visit the Robbins Cemetery on Mass. Ave. while out running errands and was prevented by absolutely nobody having shoveled within a block of the gates. I took a picture of a leftover slam-dunk of snow instead.



Tickets have hiked considerably in price since the last production of theirs I attended, but I am intrigued that the Apollinaire Theatre Company is currently doing Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge—I assume it was proposed last season because of the topical-political of the undocumented immigrant angle which has only gone Mach 10 in relevance since. I have never seen the play; I read it in 2016 because Van Heflin originated the role of Eddie Carbone in the original 1955 one-act version. I am wondering how I convince their box office that I am actively pursuing a professional arts career.

Comments

[cyphomandra]

I have tickets for A View from the Bridge here in April - it must indeed be going around!

I hope you’re all keeping warm.

[sovay]

I have tickets for A View from the Bridge here in April - it must indeed be going around!

Oh, wow. I would love to hear about it! Even if I am very tired of all of these period pieces that the zeitgeist has whipped back around to.

I hope you’re all keeping warm.

So far, so good! I even managed not to fall on the black ice that the sidewalks turned to under my feet when I had gone back out for a walk around sunset.

[pameladean]

You've steadily been selling poetry... .

[sovay]

You've steadily been selling poetry... .

I just can't tell if they'll take my word for it or want to see my latest collection! It would make my life easiest if it were an honor system. I appreciate the impulse to give artists (so frequently starving) a break.

[pameladean]

That would be best, but this country is obsessed with making sure that nobody who doesn't deserve it by stupid standards gets an iota of any benefits going. Still, collections plus individual publications ought to impress. It could be awfully tedious to satisfy some sets of roles, I can see that.

[skygiants]

In my experience the 'artists' category is honor system! (my experience: I just did the same website squint purchasing tickets under the same Youth And Artists discount for a friend with similar categorization to see another show in NYC, and so far no one has come after me to demand to see our gallery receipts.)

[sovay]

(my experience: I just did the same website squint purchasing tickets under the same Youth And Artists discount for a friend with similar categorization to see another show in NYC, and so far no one has come after me to demand to see our gallery receipts.)

Good to know! Student discounts always wanted to see ID and I do not have Artist Papers.

[kathmandu]

You review films, and get paid/compensated for it (Patreon), and this is ongoing. You've been self-educating on film history and semiotics/storytelling/stuff as you go, attempting to develop more refined and comprehensive understanding.

Sounds like pursuing at least a side career as "independent film reviewer/critic" to me...?

[sovay]

Sounds like pursuing at least a side career as "independent film reviewer/critic" to me...?

Thank you.

[asakiyume]

How the brain misinterprets: I read "Mach 10" as "March 10" and then immediately started constructing reasons why that meant "to become infinitely more intense." "Was that the day Covid lockdown started in the US?" I wondered to myself. (No: the first state--California--to issue a stay-at-home order did so on March 18, Wikipedia told me later.)

Then I reread correctly. Makes much more sense.

[sovay]

Then I reread correctly. Makes much more sense.

I like your folk etymology, though!