I was looking for something else, when I stumbled across this chapter of a travelogue from a German tourist in New York City, in the year 2000. It's a giddy, chatty, cheery description of seeing the twin towers of the World Trade Center for the first time, and then going inside it to find a bank, and so on.
Obviously, there must be many things ( Read more... )

I've created an account, catzen_announce. I added all of cassidyrose's friends to catzen_announce's friends list.
If you know anyone of her friends that isn't on my list, please point them to this post, and the new account. I'm using it for announcements for cassidyrose.
Thank you for your help.

Oh, and did I fail to mention that there's a dance show today (Friday) and tomorrow (Saturday) at 8pm in Oakland? And it's free! free! free! And I'm playing (my) music for the one suite of dances.
Details here.
If you can make it there, I'd love to see you there! Oh, and feel free to bring friends. :-)

This is, so far, my favorite 404 Page of all time.

(It uses sound and animation, probably Flash.)

I just updated my about the upcoming performance.
Please see the updated post.

I just sent an email to someone who was interested in coming, so I thought I'd post this. When I hear more, I'll post an update. UPDATED!
Thanks for your interest!
The organization sponsoring the performance (at which a few different companies will be performing) is Big Moves, an organization that's dedicated to ( Read more... )

The show went well: lots of people, lots of chocolate (I should have asked someone to bring me some, since I played piano during the breaks: I missed out on the Joseph Schmidt and a few others. :-) ).
The dancers did a wonderful job; I really liked cassidyrose's lyrical solo and costume. The volunteers and ( Read more... )

wordweaverlynn has written a (for her) typically thoughtful post about victims and heroes and their right to the moral high ground. Worth reading.

WHAT evil lurks in the hearts of waiters?

The dance/concert/chocolate tasting fundraiser is this Saturday, February 5th, from 7 to 9:30pm.
Info and links here.
Just a gentle reminder. :-)