tickets, get yer tickets ...
So.
I have a ticket to the NYC Comic Con this Sunday, where I will hopefully meet up with old STAPA friend Dan Sehn, and perhaps meet some of the folks from drunkduck (none of the guys who make the strips I read are going to be there, I don't think ... but some other DD folks will be).
AND, more excitingly ...
Thanks to the ever-helpful Dave Lapkin, I have a ticket to the December 2nd performance of EQUUS, with Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths, and I'm assuming the rest of the London cast. It's a show I've always wanted to see, but you just don't see regional theatres (or local theatres) doing it because of the heavy topic and of course the full nudity. I've read the script though ... I actually wanted to play the part Radcliffe is playing back when I was in my early 20s but no community theatre would touch such a controversial piece.
This is a good way to end the night! Especially since the night started with a trip to Michael's Arts and Crafts to have my new Timberline Lodge poster (and my old World of Witt poster) framed, which did not go so well. We talked about the larger of the two first -- double matted, the cheapest glass, a nice metal frame ... and it still would have cost close to $400. I apologized to the very nice guy who was working with me (and who does not work on commission of any kind) and said, "I think I'm just going to pick out some pre-made frames. They won't look as nice, and they won't last as long, but they also won't bankrupt my ass." Well, okay, I didn't actually say "my ass," because he was a nice older man who would have been offended.
I did, however, discover a new Orson Scott Card short story collection that came out today -- includes all of the stories he's written since the publication of "Maps In A Mirror" (which was forever-ago, I think) except for all the Ender's Game-connected stories he's written for his Intergalactic Medicine Show online magazine, which I suspect will be collected in their own anthology soon enough.
Wow. New Tobias Wolff short story collection, new Orson Scott Card short story collection ... thank god there's no new Neil Gaiman short story collection this month, I think I'd die from over-excitement!
I have a ticket to the NYC Comic Con this Sunday, where I will hopefully meet up with old STAPA friend Dan Sehn, and perhaps meet some of the folks from drunkduck (none of the guys who make the strips I read are going to be there, I don't think ... but some other DD folks will be).
AND, more excitingly ...
Thanks to the ever-helpful Dave Lapkin, I have a ticket to the December 2nd performance of EQUUS, with Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths, and I'm assuming the rest of the London cast. It's a show I've always wanted to see, but you just don't see regional theatres (or local theatres) doing it because of the heavy topic and of course the full nudity. I've read the script though ... I actually wanted to play the part Radcliffe is playing back when I was in my early 20s but no community theatre would touch such a controversial piece.
This is a good way to end the night! Especially since the night started with a trip to Michael's Arts and Crafts to have my new Timberline Lodge poster (and my old World of Witt poster) framed, which did not go so well. We talked about the larger of the two first -- double matted, the cheapest glass, a nice metal frame ... and it still would have cost close to $400. I apologized to the very nice guy who was working with me (and who does not work on commission of any kind) and said, "I think I'm just going to pick out some pre-made frames. They won't look as nice, and they won't last as long, but they also won't bankrupt my ass." Well, okay, I didn't actually say "my ass," because he was a nice older man who would have been offended.
I did, however, discover a new Orson Scott Card short story collection that came out today -- includes all of the stories he's written since the publication of "Maps In A Mirror" (which was forever-ago, I think) except for all the Ender's Game-connected stories he's written for his Intergalactic Medicine Show online magazine, which I suspect will be collected in their own anthology soon enough.
Wow. New Tobias Wolff short story collection, new Orson Scott Card short story collection ... thank god there's no new Neil Gaiman short story collection this month, I think I'd die from over-excitement!