exactly! i was shit canned from my job of 40 years as the costume director of the spoleto arts festival in charleston, sc. i was the longest consecutive staff member in the festival's history and would have worked there until i dropped dead. i was let go without a goodbye or a thank you, we're sorry but just following orders.

the contempt i now feel for the thing i loved most in the world is beyond description. i will never work for them again or attend any of their events. the arts are supposed to be the truth tellers, the rebels, the free thinkers. they are not supposed to act as an enforcement art of bad public health policy. to me now, they may as well be henchmen for chairman mao's cultural revolution