We ended up with two reviews this weekend; both saw the show on the rocky first night and fairly savaged it. Me? I hit my cues, knew my lines, and sang my numbers. I even got to do a number a cappella when the music didn't come on - and not to toot my own horn too much, but I think I did a pretty good job with it ( Read more... )

I was in downtown Silver Spring tonight, celebrating efbq's recent birthday and the birthday of another good friend of mine from the Green Party. We left the restaurant about 10:15 pm and headed back to where we'd parked the car on Ellsworth, when we ran into an extreme police presence, presaged by the cop cars which had been whizzing by the window ( Read more... )

• An Indians-Rockies World Series makes baby Jesus cry. (A Red Sox-Rockies World Series is, if anything, worse, and this whole thing should convince sportswriters, if they had a lick of sense, to get rid of the wildcard once and for all - which is to say, they will continue to trumpet the wildcard as if it was baseball's saving grace, and will keep ( Read more... )

Occasionally I'll come up with some profound observation about something and most of the time I won't write it down. On the few occasions I have, and the fewer I've shown someone what I wrote, about two-thirds will give that reaction of "Hmmm, interesting...", which is also, not coincidentally, what you say when you don't really know what to say ( Read more... )

My weather widget is telling tales of cruelty in its five-day forecast. (All temps C, as is my custom.)

• Today: Partly Cloudy. High 1, Low -8
• Sunday: Partly Cloudy. High -2, Low -12
• Monday: Mostly Cloudy. High -6, Low -12
• Tuesday: Mostly Cloudy. High -2, Low -11
• Wednesday: Partly Cloudy. High -1, Low -9

I don't watch local TV news for the most part. This is because while it has never been a bastion of journalism at any point in its existence, I have seen it during my lifetime go from "at least somewhat informative some of the time" to "I think I may know less now than when I first tuned in" to "a blow-dried Barbie freak show with as much basis in ( Read more... )

First, a shout to a best friend I've never met, kdiddy, who done got hitched over the weekend. And without a hitch, too, so to speak. Huzzah! Told you it'd be fine! *kiss*

( World Cup spoiler )

Ariel Sharon is currently on TV, saying that he's had it with Likud and is forming a new "centrist" party. Only in Israel or the United States would Ariel Sharon be considered a "centrist".

They just cut away to yet another small jet with its landing gear stuck. I hate to say it, but things like this aren't really news. It's very dramatic, and ( Read more... )

From experience, I've learned that often (though not always) my pre-critical response is correct and that it is valid in terms of later action.

Now, having said that, my response on seeing the big swirly thing on the TV was to say, "Um, that looks like it's heading north to me, not west ( Read more... )

• Sign to honor Jabbar Gibson: "Please Bus Your Own Table"
  
  
• How to make anything geeky: there are flags for gays, leather pride, and just about any other sexual minority - I've even seen a proposed heterosexual flag for the majority. Anyone know of one for polyamory?
  
  
• CNN anchors, when they are attempting to seem compassionate, will lean heavily ( Read more... )