Alison Jutzi Talks Amongst Herself

Have you read "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne? It is a spiritual guidebook that can lead you to happiness and fulfillment, or at least cars and money.  I just finished it today, and thought I'd share some pearls of wisdom for those who haven't discovered... the secret  (imagine that I just whispered that with quiet intensity). Okay, so just to totally ruin the surprise, the "secret" that "The Secret" refers to is the law of attraction. It was, coincidentally, a secret to me that the law of attraction was, indeed, a secret. So that is the first thing I learned from this book.  "The Secret" claims that everything in your life has been attracted by you, and that if you're focusing on what you don't want, you will attract more of it because the Universe, apparently, can't tell whether you really want something or really don't want it. The idea is that instead of saying, "Wow, this DEBT tooootally sucks, I wish this DEBT woul...

I have a cue-to-cue rehearsal today for You Don't Know the Half of I t , which will run the 18th-21st in Peterborough. Things that You Don't Know about the show: 1) My character gets made fun of several times for dressing like a hippie.  2) The man who is playing the archdeacon is an actual, real archdeacon. But I am not actually a hippie. 3) There is a pay-what-you-can on Saturday at 2pm. 4) By using the letters in the play's title you can also spell: "we think you do not float" but you would end up with an extra "h" and "f". 5) I do not know half of the lines in the show by memory, but luckily I do know my own.

Something happened today that I think should be turned into a New Yorker cartoon. I was looking at my friend Susan's laptop and noticed the Google Earth map she had posted as her desktop background. I said, "That's neat, what is that a map of?" and she replied, "That's not a satellite map, it's a Jackson Pollock painting." Here is the painting, entitled "Lavender Mist". Seriously, I swear I can see the CN tower on there...