Saturday 02/07/2026
Puttered around in the morning. At 1, met with Joanne and we were off to the Bing on campus for a show. This was Batshit, a one-woman show in which Leah Shelton dramatized the awful treatment of women with mental illness. Her grandmother was instituionalized with schizophrenia in the 60s, and Shelton put together what I decided to describe as a beautifully staged tantrum about the way she and other women were treated then (hopefully not so much any more). It had some very clever staging and effects and made a point I can’t argue with. But we agreed we wouldn’t recommend it to anyone else.
Then we killed time for an hour by walking around campus and browsing the Stanford Bookstore, and having a coffee at the Tressider Union. Then off to have a casual supper at the Peninsula Creamery. No I didn’t have one of their famous milkshakes.
Back at CH it was almost time to set up for an event that Stew, Lou, David Greene and I have been planning, the first of what we hope will be a series of recorded, live rock concerts. To kick it off we had Roy Orbison: A Black and White Night. The smallish crowd of 40 or so loved it, so we will probably continue as planned with quarterly shows.
Codgerville 