I've been wondering this ever since I watched half of the only season of Pan Am. It had a cute premise that should've been popular, Christina Ricci is a terrific actress, and they clearly spent a lot of money. Unfortunately, the show focused on a dumb heroine with a stupid espionage plot, which might've worked except that the heroine was ( Read more... )

• Airplay, or whatever magic makes the stereo play my iPod
  
• my handsome, witty husband-to-be who fixes everything from empty stomachs to computers
  
• frozen vegetables
  
• The Who
  
• feeling empowered about my appearance

I'd like to claim I wasn't really in the mood for the High Holidays this year because they came so early, but whatever it was, I feel kinda guilty. Jon and I had agreed to check out synagogues in Brooklyn after last Yom Kippur, but we never got around to it and he didn't want to commit to a shul for all the services without having been there before ( Read more... )

I'm out of the loop as to what's on Broadway: what's the point when it's all celebrity revivals and Foo: The Musical? Except I'm very glad that iAE told me about Alan Cummings' "one man" version of Macbeth: if someone as incisive as she is willing to drive to NYC for a day trip to see the show, I could scare up the $$$. ( Read more... )

Thurs night, I had dinner with TRQ and a friend of hers at Joe's Shanghai. I'd never had Lionshead Meatballs before, but it was delicious. Then we went to see Matilda. I'm out of the loop with Broadway shows, but when she told me Ben Brantley had praised it to the heavens, I was more than ready to go. It really is an impressive show, with truly ( Read more... )

Lest anyone think it's easy to date me, let me tell you about our weekend. I may've spent 8 hours (not an exaggeration) between Weds-Fri primping, but Jon was so nervous, he was tense the whole week and much of Saturday ( Read more... )

I wish I could read the New Year's resolution post I'd've written a year ago today, if I'd actually written one last year, bc it would be hilarious. I never imagined how my life would change. I fulfilled a lifelong dream of climbing a technical peak in the Himalayas -- and discovered that it's not all it's cracked up to be. My girlfriend dumped me ( Read more... )

Sometimes I go back through old LJ entries and wonder why such-and-such event isn't mentioned. Turns out the problem is, I'm too busy experiencing/processing, I don't get around to writing about things until they are stale. The fortnight before Christmas was an incredibly productive? time for me, in which I figured out what I want, from a personal ( Read more... )

This Christmas winter consumerist holiday seems to be all about multiples: I would've really liked to get the exact same present for all three of my siblings (a cheap version of a Thermopen and a possibly handmade but probably store bought (but clever!) spoon rest) and I'll probably get Julian and Jon's kids the same present. Originally the last ( Read more... )

For the 17 years I've known him, the Musical Theatre Muffin has come to NYC for a week of seeing musicals. He's crammed 8 musicals in 5 days, although at some point I decided to see one every visit, bc he pays top dollar to see things that will get panned by critics. This year was a doozy. I was shocked at his appearance when I got to Becco: he was ( Read more... )