I am home from The Margaret Ghost! Today we closed our triumphant four-show run, successfully deconstructed and stowed all the set and props, and were safely ensconced at heliopsis' place eating Chinese food by 8:30pm. Go us.

So, on that note, have some anecdotes about food.

NYT on hyper-palatability and the processed foods industry:
How the Food Makers ( Read more... )

Opening night last night rocked! You should all come catch one of the remaining three shows!

It was a treat to see a whole bunch of people there, especially kimberlogic, and tigerbright, who I think was the one to say admiringly, "How did it feel to play someone so COMPLETELY UNLIKE YOURSELF?!" :-) Which isn't exactly how I've been thinking of Sophia, but I can see the ( Read more... )

Note: This has been cross-posted on the Margaret Ghost Producer's Blog, where there are a lot of new entries and you should go browse them if you take an interest in this production.

Note the second: The play opens THIS THURSDAY! Through Sunday only -- four shows! You should come! Belmont is pretty easily accessible even by public transit, and ( Read more... )

Finished up the Margaret Ghost 2010 icon set I started last week. Enjoy!

( images placed behind cut, to spare the uninterested; click here to view )

Because it is my way, I couldn't resist iconifying some of the publicity pictures from the TMG Flickr set. (Well, this one of me isn't actually posted in that set -- lillibet sent it to me separately.)

Did you know that LJ's otherwise-rather-kludgy Scrapbook photo gallery function will automatically create handy HTML tables of image thumbnails for you if ( Read more... )

So, as previously noted, I'm in one more play this summer: The Margaret Ghost, about the 19th-century feminist, journalist, social organizer, and Transcendentalist, not to mention Cambridge native, Margaret Fuller. (Performances: June 17-20 in Belmont, MA. Order tickets now. :-)

theatreatfirst originally did this play back in 2006, but 2010 is the bicentennial ( Read more... )

Hey, lillibet, if I buy any one of these, can I wear it for The Margaret Ghost? Can I, can I, huh?

... okay, back to work now. X-)

One of the few good things so far about the play being over: I have my "autumn" silk scarf back (it's been on duty for the past month as my Act III sash). I expect to find myself wearing it every day for the rest of October at least.

The fact that most of us went to see gilana and ironpoet in Shakespeare in Hollywood the very next afternoon helped ease the ( Read more... )

Who's going to want to go see The Onion Cellar at the ART? (Actually, at the Zero Arrow Theatre: 12/9/2006-1/13/2007.) And if so, when? EDIT: I'm now contemplating Thurs. 12/14 at 7:30pm.
"A.R.T. is providing special discounted prices for tickets for Dresden Dolls fans. $20 non-table seating is available exclusively until November 1st. There is ( Read more... )

I am 34 today! I suspect this means I have crossed the dreaded border from "early 30s" to "mid-30s". However, I feel so powerful and fabulous and flush with possibility these days that I can hardly object.

"But Erica, when's your birthday party?" Technically, it will be rolled into the Nov. 4 festivities chez ablock. Otherwise, it's getting a little ( Read more... )