If you're ever going to an event where there are going to be Libertarians, when you see this woman, you're there. We always assign someone to show up in the "laffro", just in case anyone could possibly take us seriously. This was yesterday at the Federal Reserve, Campaign for Liberty's (Ron Paul followers) End the Fed meetup. I passed out about 50 show cards.

I felt bad because these things tend to be kind of depressing, and they attract a lot of crazy people, both fer us and agin us (I got a three page "The Horror of Capitalism" flier that started out with something about how 9/11 was an inside job and ended up with Hillary Clinton destroying some kind of penis documents about Bill) . And I think the Federal Reserve as a topic doesn't particularly lend itself to a march. Even the best chant, Gold is Money/Paper is Not, doesn't present a clear, compelling vision to the bystanders.

At a certain point, though, I realized that of all the earnest and crazy fliers and people there, I was the only one with an optimistic message. Come see my show. It's really good. There's nothing like it, it's entertaining. Come and enjoy yourselves.

When I worked at Bean's, I saw a marketing grid one time whose axises I think were quality and price. Bean's and its competitors were plotted out, and the marketing people decided we should be positioning ourselves further into a blanker area of the grid that was even higher perceived quality, the idea being to occupy a field no one else was in. I feel like in the section of theater universe that is libertarian playwriting, I'm seeing nothing but horizon all around me.

Overheard when I was taking my test to be a fire guard for my show (Passed! Put out that cigarette!): "It's open enrollment so the H.R. broads are all down in Washington this week."