I am excited that Rodrigo y Gabriela are touring their 11:11 album/show at Wolf Trap's Filene Center on August 24th, tickets are $25 for lawn or $40 for house seats. We got to stand pretty close in Baltimore last year, so I am content to do lawn seats and pray for good weather, and we have friends with house seats already. Interested in making it ( Read more... )

Friday night we met up Judy and Mike at Gordon Biercsh at 9th and F in DC, then walked over to the Lansburgh Theatre to see Carol and The Liar (which is very funny and very well done). We tried Co Co Sala after the play and indulged in chocolate and coffee way too late. Between work and walking around DC I managed to log 8,113 steps ( Read more... )

My brilliant and sexy bride has scored a batch of tickets to Cirque du Soleil: OVO for the September 11th show. She rocks. OVO is all about bugs... could be interesting ( Read more... )

If ye be interested in the diet of pirates...

http://www.foodnetwork.com/dinner-impossible/pirate-peril/index.html

Finally, a movie I actually want to go see in a theatre!

I thought perhaps 2009 would pass by with only a single theatre worthy film (Coraline)...

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus looks to be the first, if it actually makes it to the cinemas before the end of the year ( Read more... )

Sutragirl and went to Baltimore for a little weekend get-away this to see Rodrigo y Gabriela in concert and to have some time to ourselves.

We stayed at Brookshire Suites in the Inner Harbor area (small, but clean with excellent service) and used their complimentary shuttle service to get over to Fells Point for dinner and back. We enjoyed drinks at the ( Read more... )

sutragirl and I went to Boone, North Carolina this weekend to see her cousin get married. I confess I was not thrilled about traveling into the hills as I was under the wrong impression about the area. Boone and Asheville are awesomely fun places and we are definitely going back for more fun when we gather some vacation time.

The wedding was beautiful and ( Read more... )

I am not even a car buff, and I love the show Top Gear... it's entertainment the way Car Talk is for radio... you don't even have to like cars.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_KIqdS1SO0

One of the holiday gifts I got was the DVD boxed set of Wonderfalls TV shows. It's entertaining dialogue by Tim Minear and others. I am into the third disk when Jewel Staite makes her appearance as "Heidi" at the very end of the first episode on the disk ( Read more... )

I love the writing for this listing:

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/fuo/991160393.html