Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:09:05 -0400 From: Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] this weekend break a leg! Z Hobey On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Lindsey "Z." Briggs<z-AT-pbc-productions.com> wrote: > My husband Chad and I will be performing at Sandglass Theater's benefit > "Puppets in Paradise" =A0in Vermont. =A0:) > > -z. > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Anne Schaefer < > anne-AT-tanglewoodmarionettes.com> wrote: > >> Happy Labor of Love Day? >> >> Re the health insurance debate: we pay around $12,000 annually for our >> health insurance (family of four), which is about average, I think. >> It's a middling policy ($5000 deductible, no dental coverage, $20 >> copay,etc.). =A0Not only is it far too expensive (I would much rather >> use some of that money to grow our business, save for college, save >> for retirement, etc.), but I really resent having to filter my >> family's health care through a for-profit company whose ultimate goals >> are clearly adversarial to ours. =A0Frankly, I'd rather pay the SAME >> amount into an inefficient government-run system; that way, at least >> I'd be saved the visions of fatcat CEO's pocketing our hard-earned >> pennies every time we forked over the premiums. >> >> It truly is a mess, and I know there are no easy answers, but I >> absolutely do not understand the arguments that reform is not urgently >> needed. >> >> This is an interesting take on the subject: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jng4TnKqy6A >> >> How do other puppeteers fare in the health insurance world? >> Presumably everyone buys their own health insurance? =A0Do your figures >> match ours? >> >> >> Anne Schaefer >> anne-AT-tanglewoodmarionettes.com >> >> >> >> On Sep 4, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Hobey Ford wrote: >> >> > Thanks Robert. =A0I am excited this weekend to be finishing shooting a >> > music video with puppetry for the band "Arizona". =A0The nonverbal story >> > is about a young woman finding a trunk of her grandmother's >> > professional marionettes. =A0She finds a moth eaten marionette body and >> > a photo album with pictures of her grandmother in the hayday of her >> > career with the marionette and decides to restore it and bring it to >> > the rest home to show her grandmother. =A0The story is inspired by my >> > own daughter bringing home the trunks of Sue Hasting's marionettes >> > that had sat in a storeroom at our state theater and were given to me >> > in return for lending the theater a 30 ft dragon. =A0The moth eaten >> > marionette in question was actually restored by Sue Hasting's younger >> > cousin and brought to the hospital and shown to Sue the day before she >> > died, so the story is loosely based on a true story. =A0My own daughter >> > Louisa is coming home from college to shoot the final scenes with her >> > own grandmother who won't have trouble tearing up for the scene. >> > >> > On another note my daughter Sallie Ford's band limped into LA in a tow >> > truck pulling their 1980's tour van. =A0But she made it (thanks AAA for >> > a 100 mile tow!) in time to open for the Avett Brothers at the Orpheum >> > Theater Sat. night. =A0She just scored an agent too and is opening for >> > Southern Culture on the Skids in Seattle. =A0It is wild to have a >> > touring daughter, not with puppets but with music. =A0When you do what >> > you love it isn't work. Happy Labor day! >> > >> > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Robert >> > Rogers<robertrogers-AT-robertrogerspuppets.com> wrote: >> >> I hope that everyone has a stress-free, relaxing Labor Day weekend! >> >> >> >> Robert Rogers >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org >> >> Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit >> >> Archives: http://www.driftline.org >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org >> > Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit >> > Archives: http://www.driftline.org >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org >> Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit >> Archives: http://www.driftline.org >> > _______________________________________________ > List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org > Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit > Archives: http://www.driftline.org > _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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