I couldn't get the Kansas Public Radio website to load this morning, so I thought I'd see how well Pandora's classical music stations match my tastes.  "Oh look," I thought when perusing the possibilities, "there's a 20th century classical station!"  This pleased me.  I decided to try it.  Many good things!  Barber and Copland and Shostakovich!  Yo ( Read more... )

A story in texts... (well, that's what it was supposed to be when I started out, but then I decided you all needed to know more about the plot to understand where I was coming from, and it just kinda snowballed from there ( Read more... )

( Burning questions below the fold! )

Last night I dreamt that the Boy and I went back to the indie/arthouse movie theater where we went a couple of weeks ago to see Milk.  We bought our tickets, and then the woman behind the counter wanted to see my ID.  I handed my license over, but she didn't trust it (because, apparently... we weren't in Kansas anymore...).  She asked if I had a ( Read more... )

The front desk just got a call from someone who doesn't live in the area, who (allegedly) received a text message with our number referencing a "National Day of Payback." E, one of the front desk people, assured him that it hadn't come from us, and started to say more when he hung up on her ( Read more... )

Coming into the building this morning I heard one woman ask another if she was coming to an event tonight. The second woman said yes, and the first replied, "Bring your rain gear," since it's been rainy here lately ( Read more... )

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