List-Making Chain-Smoker: Follow-up

I stopped my friend's office today to chat with him and he was on the phone when he let me in. His phone conversation continued on and I passed several minutes admiring the many nice things in his office. Eventually he said goodbye, hung up and apologized to me:

"Sorry, I couldn't cut that short... it was Rachel Corrie's father"

Followers of this blog will recall the microcontroversy surrounding my March 2006 post about Billy Bragg's reworking of a Dylan song to discuss Ms. Corrie's life and death. This blog doesn't have great circulation. Comments by those who don't know my middle name are few and far between but some random internet jackass somehow sought me out -- such was the keyword power of Rachel Corrie's name.

Back to my friend, his theater company is staging a production of My Name is Rachel Corrie, a play based on Rachel's diaries. Craig and Cindy Corrie may be in attendance at one of the shows and speak about their experiences and their daughter. Of course, controversy looms, even in our local theater scene. Picketers will not be unexpected.

Theatre 13's My Name is Rachel Corrie opens September 11th in Boulder, Colorado.