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Title quote brought to you by a rerun of last night's Colbert Report, p.s. YOU ARE ALL FIRED for not telling me David Hallberg was the guest! Except musicisbelievng, because she actually did tell me this afternoon. He is doing his best to be poised and articulate while Stephen Colbert accuses him of rekindling the Cold War by defecting from the ( Read more... )

Carl Zimmer did a nice overview piece on slime molds in yesterday's Science Times-Can Answers to Evolution Be Found in Slime?-which made me go back and reread Auburn's wonderfully creepy SGA sci fi fic The Taste of Apples:"Right now, it's acting like a symbiont, but it's not, it's an opportunist. When the colonies in your bodies are mature," Carson ( Read more... )

Tagged by thewlisian_afer and happy to oblige.

1. List 5 celebrities you would have sex with without even asking questions.
2. Put all of them IN ORDER of your lust for them (5 - 1, 1 is the hottest).
3. Say which movie/show/thing it was that hooked you.
4. Supply photos for said people.
5. Tag five people!

( Five Men I Would Not, As The Saying Goes, Kick Out Of Bed )

Last night commenced the first of four ballets I've got tickets to this season for American Ballet Theatre's residence at the Met: "Cinderella," a 2004 adaptation set to Prokofiev's score by Canadian choreographer James Kudelka, who took a feminist angle and set the story in the roaring '20s. Costumes were accordingly gorgeous, all art-deco black- ( Read more... )

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My beloved David Hallberg has just been promoted from a soloist to a principal dancer of the American Ballet Theatre! As if I needed another reason to look forward to seeing him dance this season. I'm so happy for him and for everyone who loves him.

Official ABT announcement.

All I have to say is: OMFGDavidHallberg.

Actually, I have a lot more to say than that. I'm pretty sure you're all sick of hearing about my trips to the ballet -- or at least sick of hearing me wax lyrical over certain dancers -- or possibly it's only my co-workers who feel this way -- but you definitely will be after reading this -- so it's all ( Read more... )

Well, so the ballet was a success yesterday, aside from having to lean, duck and at times sit on my coat to see around and between the heads of two of the tallest men in the audience in my direct line of sight depending on how they slouched, and even though the graceful arm-waving of "Les Sylphides" set to half a dozen Chopin tunes grew dull very ( Read more... )