we could build a comfier version
"Who's got the ball...I've got the ball..".
In a bit of a gravestone triumph, I've got reliable work in the week upcoming, but only because a friend's mother has caught thick with cancer and, as she flies north to take care, her absence creates empty shifts at the Dance Centre. I'm going to be spending next Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings there. Time will go by slowly. Visitors with, say, cupcakes, juice, bags of frozen vegetables, cheesecake or turkey sandwiches and especially delicious books will be met with especially slavering open arms. Bonus points for [CENSORED-edt] with red.
More on Baudrillard.
For those who like philosophy, there are two plays coming you should take a gander at, (not to, if you have a goose you want to abandon somewhere, I suggest my freezer. furthering the thought I should have scrounged more food earlier):
Our resident Official Thinker-Person, Michael, is going to see Socrates on Trial, March 14th at 7:30, at the Chan Center. Tickets are $12, $5 for students. It's a short run, only two nights, with a talk-back after the show on Thursday. Tickets can be bought at the door, unless you're a keener, in which case you deserve the woes of Ticketmaster. Go with my blessing. I'm not going to be there, not being much a fan of Socrates, but Michael will be and he is cute and single. Kyle (as seen on the left) will also be going, but he is less single, so not as much a draw, though he does recite dirty poetry about otherkin dragons furries and in return for taking nice pictures of him, he'll write horrible plageristic things about you and chocolate pudding in Mike McGee's voice. He's a dear. Honest. We're only at war when the dessert supplies run low.
The second play is Bertolt Brecht's Life of Galileo, running March 29th to April 14th, at The Western Front. Tickets are $20, $15 on discount, $10 on 2-for-1 Tuesday. Mimi is stage manager, our friend Peter New is in the lead, and Sam's playing, um, something with a slightly pretentious title that I don't actually have the power to recall right now. Needless to say, it's got a good tag-line: He showed us the universe. The church showed him the rack. Despite the cost, I'm going to try and lure someone into going with me on Tuesday. Peter is always clever, and Sam, well, I haven't seen Sam act in anything in the last year other than films about creepy black and white priests. In fact, I may have only ever seen him play priests*, so perhaps a different sort of cleric will be a breath of fresh air. (This role may not be that different, but suffice to say, I do not expect they have him singing with a kids toy or a crucifix-in-the-eye scene).
Than is dreamed of in your philosophy...
*I lie, I think he was a skinny opera singer in Lady of the Camillas.