The rest of our trip to the Cape was great. On our way back, we spent a few hours at the Edward Gorey House, which was great. It’s a fascinating place celebrating a fascinatingly weird person. (He let raccoons live in one of his rooms for quite a while, for instance. Whether that was because he didn’t want to inconvenience them or because he ( Read more... )

Saw PMRP’s Spring Sci-Fi Spectacular, which was great. This included an encore performance of “Red Shift: Havoc over Holowood”, which plumtreeblossom was in, and which was originally performed at an Arisia a couple years ago. That was a lot of fun. And the other show was a radio adaptation of The Day the Earth Stood Still, originally broadcast in 1954 by Lux ( Read more... )

I finally got around to uploading my Pride and Prejudice photos to Flickr.

Great weekend! Not enough time to do it justice, but:

• plumtreeblossom taught me how to make cheesecake on Friday! Om nom nom.
• She had borrowed I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang from me (I haven’t actually read it yet), and wanted to see the movie (same title, minus “Georgia”). Netflix didn’t have it, but Amazon did, and we really enjoyed it!
• And today, ( Read more... )

So I finished The Swerve, which I briefly mentioned earlier, about the composition, loss to obscurity, rediscovery, and impact of Lucretius’ Epicurean philosopical poem On the Nature of Things. Utterly loved it. I learned a lot about a lot of periods of history that I didn’t know very much about, and it presented a very convincing account of the ( Read more... )

Just wanted to let you all know I’m still here. :-)

plumtreeblossom and I have a busy and fun weekend ahead of us, starting with Pride and Prejudice again tonight and including dinner with vanguardcdk, his parents, and cathijosephine on Sunday.

And wow, typing this on a touchscreen is a tedious process!

plumtreeblossom and I saw Theatre@First’s Pride and Prejudice last night at the Somerville Theatre, and it was spectacular. Go see it if you possibly can. The sheer number of jaw-droppingly outstanding performances was unbelievable. J. Deschene’s Lady Catherine de Bourgh got spontaneous, sustained applause as she flounced off the set after one scene, which she ( Read more... )

1. Had a nice evening with plumtreeblossom, involving dinner at Martsa on Elm (the Tibetan place in Davis Square), trying out for a show, watching the first cable or broadcast TV either of us had seen in a good long time, thanks to vanguardcdk setting up the TV for us, and hanging out and chatting with vanguardcdk, which is always fun.
2. Had a good meeting with a potential renter. I hope ( Read more... )

A weekend of documentaries and food with my honeywuzzle. First the documentaries:

Last night we watched Life Beyond Earth. We didn’t learn a whole lot we didn’t already know, but it was fun to see all the interviews (including Stephen Jay Gould - who at one point said something [I forget what] that made me say “That’s silly!” aloud before ( Read more... )

plumtreeblossom’s short play “Dan in the Lion’s Den” has been chosen to be one of the Hovey Players’ summer shorts! I am unsurprised (it’s a great little comedy) but delighted, and so excited to see it! When Theatre@First performed it, plumtreeblossom directed it herself (and ended up changing genders of two of the three characters to match the fabulous actors she cast), so ( Read more... )