For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 16, 2015

Hit the streets!

Supportive as always, John . . .

Lynn’s Notes:

When we first arrived in North Bay, Ontario, the local theatre had just been restored to its original beauty. I was asked if I’d join the board of directors, which I did with enthusiasm. For several years, I worked on fundraising, advertising and sponsorship, and I learned a great deal about managing a small community theatre. It’s a heck of a lot of work. I have great respect for the folks who keep these wonderful resources open and operational, and I wanted to draw some attention to them in the strip.

I worked as house manager for our local Little Theater for two years, and I was theater photographer and did set construction for the local Jr. College theater for 17 years.

Here’s your sign..\\//_

Suppose I own a video arcade. One day, customers stop coming, and I will have to close my doors due to lack of business. Could I ask to be bailed out courtesy of the taxpayers? If not, how can anyone be bailed out if their venture is faring poorly?

Because many old theatres(that were run for profit) have been taken over by the local government(don’t let them tear it down, buy them out and then it belongs to the local government) The problem here is that they were hemoraging money, now it is the taxpayers that get to pay – they don’t want to, so the city tries to make it help pay for itself, but it just needs more and more work.

That is why.

Yeah, Ellie, because you know that John always likes an excuse to laugh at you…

He’s almost always set to “Worse.” Sometimes I keep hoping to see “Better.”

argy.bargy2The problem is that a lot of people believe that if they don’t want it, no one should have it. There are even places that have privatized the fire department, so if you don’t pay some private profit rip-off, they will gladly come out and watch your house burn down, just so it doesn’t spread to one of their clients.

Supposedly the Soviet Union no longer exists (although it’s hard to believe, given Putin’s conduct). So they didn’t exactly live long or prosper.

Besides, a lot of what should have been in museums there is in private collections. And what is supposed to go into museums is often stolen; there is actually a lawsuit against Russia and a state museum by a bunch of Holocaust survivors, trying to get back art stolen first by the Nazis, then by the Russians.

A US Court is allowing the suit to go forward, even though Putin is howling that this will cause international incidents and a bad relationship with the US (like there’s a good one now?!)

Again, culture in the old Soviet Union? Culture isn’t about stealing someone else’s. It’s about rolling your own…

3 Fighting FishObviously there are some here who agree with Herman Göring, “When I hear ‘culture’, I reach for my revolver.”

“I don’t know El, but I’m pretty sure I won’t get any action.”