More catch-up, please
I've been busy prepping for our 4th of July departure, so here are a couple updates in brief...
FestivALL for the rest of y'all: Saturday I attended a performance of Whad'ya Know? at the Municipal Auditorium as part of Charleston's FestivALL celebration.
I now know how spoiled I am with the acoustically superior Clay Center -- my seat was far-stage left, which left me and my fellow seatmates listening to an echo bouncing off the walls, although it was clearer in the center sections.
WALL*E, Park Place Stadium (M 4:45): Ah, the joys of working downtown.
After a long day of work, I walked over to the multiplex and caught this clever little Pixar movie.
I was impressed that the kids in the audience were enthralled with only two -- and later three -- characters on a long-evacuated Earth for the first half of the movie. (The citizenry high-tailed it out into space seven centuries back, leaving robots such as WALL*E to clean up.)
Being a child of the '80s, I instantly recognized WALL*E as a descendant of #5, the robot from the Short Circuit movies. (The Pixar artists involved say that any resemblance is purely subliminal.) I kept expecting to hear, "WALL*E... alive," but then, it just doesn't flow, does it?
No company: I was hanging out in town Monday -- also attending a Power game, which we won 10-6 -- expecting to pick up my great-uncle coming in from Nevada at about 10:30. But after picking up my phone in the car after the movie, I learned that his Denver-Chicago flight was cancelled and he redirected himself directly to Pittsburgh. (It was either that, or Denver-Dallas-Atlanta-Washington-Charleston. Good choice.) Of course, his luggage didn't get the flight switch and is (as of post time) still out there in the United Airlines ether.
Since Dad had to go to Martinsburg yesterday, I had scheduled the day off to take my great-uncle up to my grandfather's house. But despite the change in arrival, I went up anyway and visited with him (and the rest of the family, duh) for most of the afternoon.
FestivALL for the rest of y'all: Saturday I attended a performance of Whad'ya Know? at the Municipal Auditorium as part of Charleston's FestivALL celebration.
I now know how spoiled I am with the acoustically superior Clay Center -- my seat was far-stage left, which left me and my fellow seatmates listening to an echo bouncing off the walls, although it was clearer in the center sections.
WALL*E, Park Place Stadium (M 4:45): Ah, the joys of working downtown.
After a long day of work, I walked over to the multiplex and caught this clever little Pixar movie.
I was impressed that the kids in the audience were enthralled with only two -- and later three -- characters on a long-evacuated Earth for the first half of the movie. (The citizenry high-tailed it out into space seven centuries back, leaving robots such as WALL*E to clean up.)
Being a child of the '80s, I instantly recognized WALL*E as a descendant of #5, the robot from the Short Circuit movies. (The Pixar artists involved say that any resemblance is purely subliminal.) I kept expecting to hear, "WALL*E... alive," but then, it just doesn't flow, does it?
No company: I was hanging out in town Monday -- also attending a Power game, which we won 10-6 -- expecting to pick up my great-uncle coming in from Nevada at about 10:30. But after picking up my phone in the car after the movie, I learned that his Denver-Chicago flight was cancelled and he redirected himself directly to Pittsburgh. (It was either that, or Denver-Dallas-Atlanta-Washington-Charleston. Good choice.) Of course, his luggage didn't get the flight switch and is (as of post time) still out there in the United Airlines ether.
Since Dad had to go to Martinsburg yesterday, I had scheduled the day off to take my great-uncle up to my grandfather's house. But despite the change in arrival, I went up anyway and visited with him (and the rest of the family, duh) for most of the afternoon.