Here is my list of books I've read and audiobooks I've heard during the year (under the cut).
A = Audiobook
B = Printed book
Note: This year I'm including a couple of stage plays

( This year's books )

When the LJ Idol topic was presented as "bringing a knife to a gunfight" I got this really twisted idea, based in part on the fact that I've seen dozens and dozens of stage musicals over the past decade (perk of the newspaper job). So when someone truly takes "all the world's a stage" to heart, perhaps he turns out something like this.

Voting on ( Read more... )

Some midnight musings...

This last weekend the_dark_snack  and I watched a couple of award shows, which provided quite a contrast. Such shows can be fun, if done right, but if not... =P

We had DVRed the MTV Movie Awards from the previous weekend and watched them Saturday. And it's sad to say that the show that was once a wonderful antidote to the Academy Awards is ( Read more... )

(Who? Origin here)

Had a good Memorial Day weekend, managing to mostly ignore a certain race, instead going out to lunch that Saturday with veronica_rich  and dahlianna , during which it was decided that the_dark_snack  and I would spend the day as our aliases, Doug and Carlotta (whom we had suspected had been taken in the May 21 Rapture, but since it didn't happen after all...).

That ( Read more... )

Actually, this is a two-part post. The first, before I forget it:

Doug and Carlotta go to the theatre

the_dark_snack  and I went to review three live stage shows last weekend (a perk of my job) and at one, after we had found our seats, I made an interesting discovery. A season ticket-renewal envelope was taped to a nearby seat, and I recognized the names on it. ( Read more... )

Here's hoping iballs2entrails  had a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY Sunday!

It was also the 18th anniversary of the day the_dark_snack  and I met; we've been together most of the time since. We got to celebrate by seeing "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" performed by a local dinner theatre. It was very good, and funny and touching, and y'all really should see a production of it ( Read more... )

Big belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY (Friday) to kleptodevil !

Saturday the_dark_snack  and I met up with veronica_rich , and were joined by dahlianna  and her friend, for lunch and Half-Price Books shopping (I only spent $1!). The five of us will be getting together again Thursday for Thanksgiving.

Sunday we got the local Christmas theatre season officially underway by seeing "Don We Now Our Gay Apparel" ( Read more... )

Since I'm not usually online Saturday or Sunday, I'll let this suffice for the next couple of days.

Looks like I'll have at least a dozen or so in my Pirate crew for Sunday's party. Should include my local State Representative and a professional magician, so things could get interesting. Any who feel like coming aboard are welcome!

Started my ( Read more... )

I got to see a bunch of shows last weekend at the IndyFringe festival in downtown Indy, but the_dark_snack  has taken it upon herself to see as many of the 48 shows as possible (she'll come really close), so she's been downtown every night this week (and in fact is there right now).

Anyway, she wrote a bunch of reviews for my blog at EastOfIndy, which she's also ( Read more... )

(Crossposted from my work blog at eastofindy.com; it's a review of an Indyfringe performance, done in the style of the show's protagonist)

well boss, good of you to leave the computer open
got to say it's better these days,
so much easier to hop from key to key
and hit return
we could easier use capslock on/off for capital letters
but thanks to mr. ( Read more... )