Caught the play "Fanny" at Fort Mason this afternoon. It'll be playing for the next week. It hearkens back to a simpler time, a time when ruination was darned simple and common. A time when everyone in your community knew everybody and maybe the best way to escape the gossip was to sail off with oceanographers to measure the Indian Ocean. (But of course the gossip about you that then swirled in your wake would only intensify.)