I hadn't listened to the songs at all, originally just because it's not my favorite kind of music. Then it was slight annoyance with the saturation, but after we learned it was coming to Chicago, I told softlykarou that I wanted to wait to see all the songs in context and not listen to them beforehand. And that's what I did, so last night was the first time I ( Read more... )

Just a grab-bag of things that have been happening lately ( Read more... )

We woke up at 7:10 today, and so hopefully this is the last time I have to make note of our wake up time. Maybe it's because we're in Hiroshima, and like I said, it feels like home. Maybe it's the drinks we had before we went to bed calming us down enough that we were able to sleep through. Maybe it's just that all that walking and travel tired us ( Read more... )

I'm always up for a good bout of eating the rich!

On Friday night, softlykarou and I went to the US premier of Posh at the Steep Theatre. I didn't really know anything about it beforehand other than that it was a British play about a thinly-veiled version of an Oxford club for young, overprivileged rich boys--apparently based on the Bullington Club--and that ( Read more... )

I shall plan my cousin's escape from that Canton mad-house, and together we shall go to marvel-shadowed Innsmouth. We shall swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many-columned Y'ha-nthlei, and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever.
-H. P. Lovecraft, The ( Read more... )

So, a few months ago while I was poking around Kickstarter, I found a proposal for a production of Terry Pratchet's Wyrd Sisters, put it in my phone's calendar, and stuck it in the back of my mind. A couple months after that, one of my coworkers gave me a flier for a production at the Side Project Theatre Company of a rather familiar play. So last ( Read more... )

As promised, here are some of the rules that Suzugamine students sign up for when they attend:

• Obviously, they have to wear uniforms. It's all mandated--skirts, shirts, shoes (two kinds) and even official socks with the school seal of them. Winter and summer versions of the uniform. And yes, some of them do hike their skirt up to Revolutionary ( Read more... )

Nothing like sitting underneath a blanket with a heating pad. Except maybe sitting underneath a blanket with someone else, but unfortunately, softlykarou is already on her way home.

We went to see a theater group perform The Canterbury Tales on Saturday at Fermilab. I was a little leery of what it was going to be like, but it turned out really good. A lot of ( Read more... )

softlykarou's post covers most of the highlights, but I just wanted to add some bits of my own.

First of all, the food. I was sad that To Pho Cafe was closed (I really wanted Vietnamese), but I was sadder about dinner. I mean, I know I ordered fish in an Italian restaurant (which as both softlykarou and uriany pointed out, is not the best thing do to. However, I thought I ( Read more... )

Okay, not really. I got an envelope addressed to me that turned out to have theatre tickets in it! Free admission for a guest and I to Accomplice up at Pheasant Run on January 21. There are only two problems with this ( Read more... )