My First Play- Getting Frankie Married by Horton Foote

Last Sunday, I went to my first American Play called Getting Frankie Married and AFterwards by Horton Foote at the Open Fist Theater in Los Angeles.
I had never seen an American theater show before so it was very exciting.

It is the story of a man in his early forties. He lives with his mother, who is old and sick. He also has been living with the same girlfriend since high school but hasn't married her. He has an affair with a very young woman and lots of sad things happen and babies are made. Babies are happy, but the story is still sad. I cried sometimes, and then I got embarrassed, but the theater was very dark so nobody could notice.


The mother is played by Judith Scarpone and her performance is very handsome and funny and sad....it is like a Thai Banana flower salad with many different flavors at once. Bjorn Johnson plays Carlton Gleason, who is a very kind man. He walks with a limp because his mother used to get drunk and beat him when he was a baby. I'm glad Mr. Gleason's mother wasn't in the play because I don't like her. Mr. Johnson brings Carlton Gleason to life with a good mixture of dignity and innocence that made me feel like I would like to be friends with Carlton Gleason. I would invite him to breakfast if he were not fiction.

If you are in Los Angeles, I hope you will go to see this play through May 15.
The theater's website is. http://www.openfist.org/index.htm



This picture is based on true events. I ate a lettuce leaf yesterday with a giant worm on it. I almost ate the worm (Bruce) but I noticed him just before I tasted him. Bruce looked at me, and I could tell he was frightened.

Coming that close to death has made him appreciate his life so much more. I think he is very thankful. I keep him in a small yogurt jar now.

He is eating an artichoke stem.

I wonder if he will always be a worm or if he will one day become a dusty winged butterfly. If that happens, I may change his name.


Toby Matthew Jacobson was born 10 years before his tenth birthday. He didn't want any presents. He didn't want any cake.
He was bored by parties. He was bored by birthdays. In fact, Toby Matthew Jacobson was bored by everything except the idea of "After". And so he lived from one after to another after, and the days slowly passed.




Against his will Toby grew up, and exactly 32 years after the day he was born, Toby turned 32 years old. After going from after to after for so long Toby Matthew Jacobson had grown bored of Afters. Having lost interest in the idea of after, Toby turned his thoughts to It. What would it be and when would it come, and how would it feel when it did. And so, Toby began waiting. And he waited for it to come. And eventually, I suppose it did.

The Sad Banana



Some people think that fruits have no feelings, but I know this is not true. I am eating a very happy Tangelo fruit as I type this post.

This morning, I had a waffle with fruits for breakfast, and you can see that the banana in the photo (Jacob) was very sad. I don't know if I did or said something that hurt Jacob's feelings.

I understand that when you are a banana you have good days and bad days. It's normal for a banana, or other fruit to feel sad sometimes, but I still felt bad about it. Some people say that if you eat a said fruit it will make you sad too, but Jacob's flavor made me very happy. I hope that as I chewed on him, his frown turned into a big, banana flavored smile.

So long, Jacob.