Last weekend we took our first major step toward joining the streaming generation. Yes, we've been cable TV dinosaurs, but not we're moving on up from the cable TV tar pit! After we signed up for Disney Plus on Thursday we watched the Hamilton screenplay on Saturday.


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San Francisco - Sun, 19 Jan 2020, 1:30amWe're now into the wee hours of Sunday morning. We got back just a bit ago from a late comedy show to our room at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco ( Read more... )

San Francisco - Sat, 4 May 2019, 11:30pm

This evening we saw Hamilton in San Francisco. It's the hit musical that smashed records on Broadway. Now it's on stage in many different cities. Tickets are still expensive, though. We passed when it opened in SF a few months ago as tickets for the first few months were $600+ for good seats. Now the ( Read more... )

Park Central Hotel - Sat, 4 May 2019, 0:30amFriday evening we arrived for a weekend staycation in San Francisco. Before we began the staycation, though, we ate dinner. We decided against eating in SF because we've generally struggled to find a suitable restaurant nearby the hotel in the part of town we're staying in. We went through a mental list ( Read more... )

Museo Evita, Buenos Aires - Sun, 30 Dec 2018 - 6pm

"You've seen the play, now see the country it's based on!" That's how I've felt about Argentina several times during the past few days as I've toured around Buenos Aires.


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San Francisco - Sunday, 4 Mar 2018, 1amSaturday night Hawk and I went out for a nice dinner in San Francisco. We'd wanted to return to Espetus, a Brazilian steakhouse that we had a great dinner at a few years ago, but no reservations were available that fit our schedule. We were booking kind of last minute, Saturday late morning for Saturday dinner ( Read more... )

Sunday, 28 Jan 2018, 11pm.

As the second half of our half-day trip to Sonoma Valley today (the first half was wine tasting, natch) we attended a live show of Whose Live Anyway? in Santa Rosa. The show is similar to the TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway? Four comedians perform improvisational humor based on audience suggestions ( Read more... )

I got in to Dallas fine last night. After last-minute delays due to mechanical problems (see previous blog) we got a new plane and the flight was uneventful. With the ~1 hour delay I got to my hotel room around 8:30pm. And what I found was... trippy. Check this out:


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Every program of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! has a celebrity guest for the Not My Job segment. When we attended the live performance of the radio program in San Francisco on Friday, Aug 11 ( see previous blog) the special guest was Lars Ulrich, drummer and cofounder of the band Metallica.


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Hawk and I have long been fans of the radio program "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!". Dubbed "The NPR Weekly News Quiz", it's a humorous recap of the week's news in which panelists and guests compete to answer the most questions correctly about recent events. The humor comes from side commentary and from one of the segments in which a guest has to pick ( Read more... )