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It was my first show at Club Majestic and, as funny as it was, I could hardly wait for it be over. Based on what I've read, when the club doors opened, we'd all flood into King Street and start fighting. I had already marked my victims. Over there, that nice lady who won the "glow-in-the-dark rosary" looked like an easy mark. And the guy who won the hologram "St. Bernadette" holy card? If I cornered him out on King Street, I'd take the card and St. Bernadette would be seeing visions of Mary at my house. (Being a bad...

I am the odd loner in my community who enjoys hearing tales of our American founding fathers, our heroes and was always completely fascinated by the letter of Sullivan Ballou by the civil war, the human struggle for an ideal they, themselves perhaps know little of... I would not go into detail what promted me to write this, perhaps I needed a channel to spout out my intense discomfort after having to constantly listen to and deal with professors in my college and their utter hypocrisy. I Love this country, I love it personally. I love the people; I love...

COLUMBIA COLLEGE ADDRESS, Commencement June 1, 2003 Tony Kushner Thank you for this beautiful honor, and thank you for freeing me from the dark cave I've been sitting in all week; and by dark cave I mean a theater, I've been in the dark all week watching a director and designers and singers and crew try to put together an opera double bill for which I provided the English-language libretti.  Thank you for releasing me for the afternoon from that dark and anxiety-filled cavern of illusion and bidding me welcome to the bright daylight dazzle of your commencement, your impressive...