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Hearts Full Of Blood

RETURNING TO NEW YORK AS PART OF  FRINGE NYC'S ENCORE SERIES!!

September 9th through the 14th at The Players' Theatre

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Reviews from "Hearts Full of Blood's" first NYC Run:

After its successful run and extension at the Royal George Theatre Cabaret, Hearts Full of Blood was accepted into the 2010 NYC Fringe Festival. Based on an extraordinary true story, Hearts Full of Blood tells the darkly comic tragedy of the perfect American couple and their seemingly impenetrable happiness – even as they struggle to conceive the child they want so desperately. But in trying to find a solution to this continual failure, they unearth the one truth that can destroy everything upon which their perfect lives have been built. 

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I don't know who found this correspondence or if it's real. You can decide if this fits in with what we've heard in the news over the last few years. In this eye-opening exchange, A New Orleans lawyer sought an FHA loan for a client. He was told the loan would be granted if he could prove “satisfactory title” to a parcel of property being offered as collateral. Given Louisiana's Napoleonic code and often muddy transfers of title between family members, it took the lawyer three months to track down the full title to the property which dated back to 1803.  After sending the information to the FHA, he received the following reply.

(Reply from FHA):

"Upon review of your letter adjoining your client's loan application, we note that the request is supported by an Abstract of Title. While we compliment the able manner in which you have prepared and presented the application, we must point out that you have only cleared title to the proposed collateral property back to 1803. Before final approval can be accorded, it will be necessary to clear the title back to its origin."

(Response from attorney):

"Your letter regarding title in Case No.189156 has been received. I note that you wish to have title extended further than the 206 years covered by the present application. I was unaware that any educated person in this country, particularly those working in the property area, would not know that Louisiana  was purchased by the United States from France , in 1803 the year of origin identified in our application.  For the edification of uninformed FHA bureaucrats, the title to the land prior to U.S. ownership was obtained from France , which had acquired it by Right of Conquest from  Spain . The land came into the possession of Spain by Right of Discovery made in the year 1492 by a sea captain named Christopher Columbus, who had been granted the privilege of seeking a new route to India by the Spanish monarch, Queen Isabella. The good Queen Isabella, being a pious woman and almost as careful about titles as the FHA, took the precaution of securing the blessing of the Pope before she sold her jewels to finance Columbus 's expedition...Now the Pope, as I'm sure you may know, is the emissary of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and God, it is commonly accepted, created this world. Therefore, I believe it is safe to presume that God also made that part of the world called Louisiana . God, therefore, would be the owner of origin and His origins date back to before the beginning of time, the world as we know it, and the FHA. I hope you find God's original claim to be satisfactory.

Now, may we have our darn loan?"

The loan was immediately approved.

On Saturday May 15th, we launched our website to the internet. It took many diagrams and a long time to build, but we are proud of it’s construction. Our website’s construction is so sound and its exterior is so durable, that it will apparently not be returning from its voyage to the internet. It has ejected the tubes that bring it back inside. If you are in your e-mail or another internet reading platform, and you seehttp://www.thenewcolony.org typed there, this “hyper-link” will take you to wherever in the internet thenewcolony.org currently is. We ourselves will be checking our website’s status often via this “hyper-link” to the internet. If you’d like to do the same, feel free to use this “hyper-link” for yourself. It will be difficult to ever truly pinpoint at any given moment where in the internet the website is, but you should always be able to see it and the new messages we are sending by using http://www.thenewcolony.org. While we may never again know where our website is, we should always be able to know when it is: now. New words, pictures, videos, and other messages will be delivered to the internet via http://www.thenewcolony.org on a regular basis.  Please enjoy.

Hearts Full of Blood (Formerly "Calls to Blood") is headed to the New York International Fringe Festival in August!

Not only is it a pretty great privilege to bring this incredible show to a fantastic new audience, but plane rides!

Not only that, but eating at places other than home! Excuses for drinking more than usual! Seeing New York friends!  

Hearts Full of Blood will run August 20-29 in New York City. More details to follow. I hope to see you there. Yes, you.

Do you like food, too?

"It's Sunday! Let's have a meal somewhere other than our home between 11am and 12pm."

"Oh yes, I'd love some cooked eggs."

"Me too! I knew we were right for each other. Let's go to that very popular place where lots of people like us go for cooked eggs on Sunday mornings."

"That sounds lovely."

"Uh, oh. A line! There's a 1 hour wait? Oh, ok!  We could try to find another place that cooks eggs in the morning."

"But this is the place that a lot of people like us go to."

"Maybe we could use this as an opportunity to explore the  culinary potential of this world-class city of ours!"

"No, let us walk around the block 8 times. That should kill 45 minutes. Maybe we'll get seated before an hour."

"Let's get a puppy."