Hi there! I am writing this to you from a super hip coffee shop/plant shop in Oklahoma City. I ordered a coffee and a sandwich and they served my coffee in a mason jar and gave me a playing card as my service ticket (I am the 10 of clubs). I am closing in on my last few performances here in Oklahoma city and it has treated me well. I am staying in this ADORABLE Airbnb with some pretty rad ladies. It's owned by the head electrician of the theatre and he gives us rides home and his wife does our laundry. It's unreal. It's insane. And it's perfect. He is an english man with blonde dreadlocks who loves Dr. Who, and although I have never in my life seen an episode in my life my friends tell me that means he's cool. So far I have had nothing but positive experiences here in the good ol' OKC save for one evening.
STORY TIME!!! The other day the cast decided to go out for a birthday and we wanted to go to this Barcade down the street from our theatre. It sounded really cool and the perfect environment for what we were looking for. After the show we all walked to this bar (there were 3 people in the bar before we walked in...there were like 25 of us, so there was a lot of money about to be spent in this establishment). As soon as we walked in we were all carded. Fair dues. This was a bar. No worries there. As we all took out our IDs there was one person with us who did not have a US issued ID. They had an drivers license from their country saying when they were born, it was a picture ID, it was valid and within the guidelines of government picture identification. The bartender looked at the ID and refused service. He then proceeded to say that this person could not remain on the premises because his owner told him to do this to anyone without a valid US ID. We explained to him that we were all there for a birthday and if they weren't allowed to drink could they please stay and hang out with us. We were told that this person had to leave. I then interjected and asked is this was a state wide rule or if this was a rule particularly applying to this bar at which time the bartended said "i don't know. this is what I was told." We obviously then all left and went to another bar and had a wonderful evening and that Barcade lost a shit ton of money. Now here is my issue, If the owner of this bar actually told this bartender to enforce this rule that means that the owner of this bar does not allow anyone on the premises that is not an american citizen WHICH IS SO SO SO SO WRONG. It could be argued that the bartender was just "doing his job", but like...he could have at least let this person stay. He didn't have to serve them drinks. I will not say that I hate living in America. There are many things that America stands for that is awesome. I will say that America at the moment (some would argue longer than a moment) is broken. It's so broken. I have spent a lot of time with people that are not United States citizens lately and I have seen American through many different colored eyes. There are some HUGE issues. This night made me sad. I included this story so that you see what is happening. I think a lot of people in a lot of small towns without direct ties to anything that might be seen as "controversial" choose not to see what is happening in the world. Maybe this situation is being blown out of proportion, but I will say that no other bar as had this issue while we have been here. No other bar has refused service. Look around at whats going on. It's real and it's happening and it sucks. I have recently begun reading the Artist's Way. I think many of you who read this blog have read it before, and if you haven't I think that as creatives we owe it to ourselves to experience it (at first I wrote, "we owe it to ourselves to read it" but realized later while editing that I am doing much more than that with this book). One of the things that is involved in "experiencing" this book is doing "Morning Pages". You just write for three pages first thing in the morning. Whatever comes to your mind. It's a lot harder than it sounds. I am not even having problems finding what to write. It's the fact that I have to write first thing in the morning. I have been doing a terrible job of doing it in the morning but that's okay. I do that sometimes, I "fail" at something I want to do and then I just decide I might as well quit instead of getting back into it at my own pace. It takes me a long time to commit to things sometimes. I learned that about myself. I learned that if I don't do it the way others think it should be done that's okay. As long as I do it and I am proud of myself. I have been reading the book for three days and I have already learned something. It's a gem. Read it. That's all I have for now. I'll see you in Arizona!
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mama
9/29/2017 05:53:43 pm
love that you are getting to travel and meet new people...p.s. the world is broken and we are behind enemy lines...it will be fixed though, at the 'return'...love you
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