I can't believe this is happening! Theresa Rebeck's play Seminar didn't get any Tony nominations, and of course it goes without saying that the biggest snub was for Alan Rickman's performance. And now the play is closing!

New York Times: Seminar to Close
The Tony Award nominating committee has claimed its first victim. Just hours after Theresa ( Read more... )

Just a week before Earth Day we are getting a lesson in how Nature can be out of our control. Scientists cannot predict earthquakes and volcanic eruptions or their effects on humanity. People may not realize that J. R. R. Tolkien loved the Icelandic Sagas, and while this Icelandic volcano may not be Mount Doom, the smoke cloud does remind me of " ( Read more... )

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I'm opening this post just as a place to talk about Hurricane Gustav as it approaches today. Yesterday I saw lots of people getting on buses so they could get out of New Orleans, and places like Biloxi, Mississippi, and Corpus Cristi, Texas, are also evacuating. None of these coastal cities have fully recovered from Katrina and Rita three years ago ( Read more... )