My outing to etrace's Dead gig on 10/28 was fun. I was surprised to find that the room was more like a medium-sized coffeehouse than anything; the building is an enormous pole barn, but most of it is the brewery of course, so the tap room in front is just a small space with a bar, a dozen tables, and a couple of couches. I sat at the bar and drank their ( Read more... )

sanpaku called me out recently for undermining my fiercely professed LiveJournal loyalty by actually doing most of my day-to-day posting on Facebook. He's right, and thus I am thinking that for the month of June I should make another attempt at doing a short post every day, thereby lowering the psychological bar. So here's one ( Read more... )

Quick notes:
* zigguratlabs has issued a Call for Research for their 2011 exhibition!
* Prose in Arlington is closing!
* Honorable Menschen is having a Chanukah concert next Sunday 12/5 (which you should all come to! 4pm at tremontstshul)

Spent Thanksgiving in CT with justom's family, including adorable twin nieces now a year and four months. Drove a lot. Ate a lot. Slept a lot ( Read more... )

This is a two-part question (which I swear has nothing whatever to do with Sherlock Holmes, hot though that is):

• What accents do you find particularly sexy and/or appealing?
  (You can say "British", but I for one will probably scoff at you. Specific regions are acceptable. ;-)
• What movies present particularly good, squee-worthy, or toe-curling examples ( Read more... )

Some of the things worth being happy about today:

1. The Arisia 2010 souvenir book (which I designed and produced) has been officially delivered to the printers!
2. Last spring, I ordered a parka (one of those 3-in-1 "system" kinds with the zip-out insulated liner jacket) from Lands' End for $70 on end-of-season clearance. ( Startling news flash: Warm coats are good! )

For those of you who've been asking, Spike Heels ticket reservations are now up!
http://www.occasionalplayers.org/

(Official synopsis: "Pygmalion goes awry in contemporary comedy of manners which explores sexual harassment, misplaced amour and the possibility of a four sided love ( Read more... )

Special guests Honorable Menschen (featuring yours truly) open for Techiya at their FREE Spring Concert, tonight at 5:00 pm at MIT (in 6-120).

Also, LSC is showing Coraline at 7pm in 26-100, and J and I are going to that, finally. :-)

Also also, Happy Mother's Day!

[... because I am procrastinating on going home and being Highly Productive with the rest of my evening.]

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.

Copy the list and
1) Bold the ones you have read.
2) Italicize the ones you intend to read.
3) Underline the ones you LOVE.

( Top 100 Books? )

Eureka Puzzles in Coolidge Corner is having Summer Game Nights every Tuesday, 6:30-8:30pm. So far, the only one we've managed to go to was Word Games on July 8 (where we saw 530nm330hz and family)... but tomorrow night's theme is Settlers of Catan!

We saw The Dark Knight at the Somerville Theater on Saturday night. Since then, I've been enjoying catching up ( Read more... )

We cancelled today's tremontstshul canoeing trip due to forecast chance of thunderstorms, so instead a handful of us are going to see WALL*E, 3:20pm this afternoon (Sunday), at the Boston Common. Anyone else (who hasn't already gone, I know, I know) want to join us ( Read more... )