Movie night
Tonight, no blogging because it was Bill 'n Helena's night out at the Michael Moore movie. (Also, three other friends.)
We have a great little independent (art-ish) movie theater in town, the Vinegar Hill Theater. It's had F-9/11 since opening night last Friday. We tried to get tickets then. Hah! Silly us.
So we found out their ticket-sales policy: only selling tickets for the same day; sales booth for all three nightly showings opens at 3:30 p.m. I figured if I got there at 4:30 I could get 5 tickets for the 7 p.m. showing, then go to our weekly peace demonstration. It worked!
But the ticket agent also said that if we wanted to sit together we should join the line no later than 6:30. So I did that--leaving Bill and our friends finishing their dinner in a nearby eatery. I stood in line in torrential rain for 25 minutes till they let us in. What a great feeling of community on the line...
Oh, and then there was the movie. I'll write more about that, later.
Yesterday, I went to a a matinee showing of Fahrenheit 911 at the Capitol Mall in Olympia. There were about 70 people in the theater.
When I left the theater, I saw some enterprising Democrats had set up a voter registration table directly if front of the theater exit. About 10 people went directly from the theater to the voter registration table.
Later, I came back and talked to the people manning the table. There were no campaign materials on display and nothing to associate the table with the Democratic Party. The folks told me they had registered about 50 people today alone and they were sure everybody they registered planned to vote against Bush.
If more people across the country are taking advantage of Fahrenheit 911 to register pissed-off Americans who don't normally vote, I think were really going to kick Bush's ass in November.