Blog: Screening Liberally

Three years, three parties

There's hardly been a chance to rest. After Friday's super successful Laughing Liberally show and a screening I hosted of Baghdad ER Sunday, this week rolled around and continued the hectic schedule.

Monday, Leigh and Wendy continued their streak of fabulously successful Screening Liberally events with a screening of Murderball, a documentary about quadriplegics (with limited use of hands as well as legs) and the U.S. Quad Rugby Paralympic team, with special guest Keith Cavill, who is in the film.

Rounding out the week: Tuesday, a party at the home of Peter, Paul, and Mary's Peter Yarrow for the League of Young Voters, followed by Drinking Liberally's third anniversary party on Thursday. It's been three years since a group of progressives started gathering to build social capital and make politics fun, and now, with 144 chapters including Alaska and Hawaii, a comedy show, movie screenings, and more, we'll keep spreading democracy one pint, laugh, reel, book, blog, and voter at a time.

posted on May 28, 2006 8:10 pm (comment)

tags: Drinking Liberally, Laughing Liberally, Living Liberally,
parties, photos, Screening Liberally

Smoking, singing, and flying

The first Screening Liberally event, an advance showing of Thank You For Smoking, was a phenomenal success with a line around the block and hundreds of eager theatergoers turned away. A few days later, the Tank produced its take on the Purim-St. Patrick's day coalescence with a comic reading of the Book of Esther and "Danny Boy" sung in Hebrew. And I spent a week in California for work, a team offsite to create mosaic tile picture frames, and opportunities to visit DL San Francisco and see a few old and new friends. Sadly, I caught a minor cold on the airplane - the second California trip in a row where this has happened.