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03:10 pm
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Sick
Bleah. Thought that I had dodged the bullet, with Libby sick for a week, but here I am, sick.
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03:59 pm
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Thanksgiving Week, take 2
New Plan
Saturday - in.
Saturday Night - Sleep No More (show) Staying with Yevsha
Sunday - Trip to Higgens (with Moombites?), possibly including a stop at Camelot.
Monday - touristing
Monday Night - Poker night. Staying with Charlie and Marsy.
Tuesday thru Wednesday day - Touristing in Boston
Wed night - Tighes for dinner, staying at Melville Keep.
Thursday day - Head to RI
Thanksgiving Dinner -RI
Friday - Day in RI, evening back to Boston for leftovers at the Buttery!
Saturday - Back to Chicago
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06:20 pm
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Thanksgiving Week
OK, a plan is taking shape:
Saturday - in.
Saturday Night - um, some show by a British company about um, Sherlock Holmes crossed with Shakespeare? Staying with Yevsha
Sunday - hanging out with Yevsha.
Monday - touristing?
Monday Night - Poker night. Staying with Charlie and Marsy, or Yevsha, whichever is more convenient for them.
Tuesday thru Wednesday day - RI with the folks
Wed night - Tighes for dinner, staying at Melville Keep?
Thursday day - Cooking at Melville Keep? for food to bring to
Thanksgiving Dinner - Buttery
Friday - Back to RI?
Saturday - Back to Chicago
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09:20 am
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Boston Bound!
Hello all,
So, Libby and I will be in Boston Thanksgiving week. We will certainly want to spend a day or so with my folks down in RI, and visit Lowell, Kris, and Joshua. However, our stated goal is to catch up with folks we haven't seen in a while - either missed because we didn't go to Pennsic, or haven't seen in even longer.
Pipe up here if you want to get together, and especially if you have a plan for that. Libby hasn't done much touring in Boston, so if people have suggestions of their favorite activity for guests and a day that week that they want to do that thing with us, please post!
Also, engagement pics, from a friend of ours who in the last few years, has become a really artistic professional photographer: http://saundrakarolblog.com/?p=440
ETA:
Arriving in Boston Sat 21st 1:30 PM
Leaving Boston Sat 28th 12:35 PM
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08:47 am
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Last Night's Rehearsal
So went for a quick hour to look at some stuff for Piven's upcoming show - two Pinter plays. A guy throws a knife at another guy, one guy falls backwards over an ottoman, and couple struggle in a sexy roleplay thing. All done in an hour. But see...the sexy struggle thing turns out _really_ sexy. So, can we stay for a bit and look at one other thing? And next thing we know, we are there for 4 hours, tweaking half the show...and none of the new stuff is 'fighting', even remotely. Just movement. Sexy,sexy movement. For a couple of middle-aged white guys, we apparently understand sensuality (not that we could perform it remotely as well as the two amazingly talented actors we were working with. Very attractive, very focused, very body-aware, one-note-and-its-absorbed folks... such a pleasure to work with). Funny, too - "Here, I'll be you (6'3" tall, Marlboro man build actor), and David will take your place (Gorgeous, languorous, 5'9" actress), and we'll show you what this should look like..."
Late night, tired this morning, but FUN! And, the first time I think I have actually worked on a show that Joyce was personally directing, which was an honor and a privilege.
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08:38 am
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Pure greatness
Here's a link to a Harvard class on Ethics and Justice. I so wish I was actually _in_ this class, not just watching it.
http://www.justiceharvard.org/
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06:26 pm
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Hivemind
Hey all,
Anyone know the name of a BBC series from the 80s (?) about MI5, which was really awesome?
-Rick
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07:34 am
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Engaged!
Libby and I got engaged the other night! And had a wonderful dinner at Osteria Via Stato! And then came home and played computer games, watched an episode of BSG and went to sleep! Great night!
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12:30 pm
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Back to School note
Reposted from Alison Vesily:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xuFnP5N2uA
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10:52 am
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BSG
BSG is such a wonderful fantasy series. I mean, I wish it were science fiction, sure, but as fantasy, at least the beginning is great.
By which I mean, don't think about the logic, it will just disappoint.
Today's: So, the Cylons brains are made with silica relays that deteriorate when subjected to whatever radiation exists in Ragnar Anchorage? Then why do we have a problem identifying them? Can we not generate that radiation synthetically? Shame we couldn't have stayed in the Anchorage for another few hours, I guess....
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12:41 pm
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Television
So we finished watching B5 this weekend. By which I mean we got to the end of the actual story, halfway through the last episode of season 4, and when it started going bizzaro with the 'looking back from 10000 years in the future', we stopped, looked at each other and said 'that was a great series', and turned it off.
Then we sat down to watch the rest of BSG, starting with Razor and then the rest of seasons 4 and 5, which we haven't seen.... and realized we needed to go back to the beginning and watch it all again, since we were fuzzy on what happened.
Fun to watch the mini-series again (probably my favorite part so far - this series (at least through season 3) just got worse and worse. But since it starts so good, I am willing to give it a full run). Fun things: pointing at people and going 'cylon!'
Curious (but not wanting spoilers past season 3): Are there many Monotheists amongst the colonists? Because when Caprica tells Baltar that 'God wanted me to help you' before he suspects that cylons even exist anymore, he thinks it odd that she is religious, but not that she worships God instead of the Lords of Cobol.
Also, I wonder if Caprica was created specifically to seduce Baltar. That is, the cylons were spying on the colonies, trying to find a way to get access to the military mainframe, and when they decided on the seduction of Baltar, they created the Caprica series just for that purpose.
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10:14 am
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!$%*#%&%#%
No Pennsic for me after all.
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02:55 pm
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VACATION!
Woot! So it looks like we will be going to Pennsic after all! Not for 2 weeks, but at least for War week.
Many mornings as Libby and I are driving in to work down 90/94 we glance at each other and one will say 'Pennsic'. By which we mean 'Lets just keep driving - we can be at Pennsic before nightfall.'
Next week that is going to be reallllly attractive as a concept :-)
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02:53 pm
[Link] | I love Wil Wheaton's Blog (which I read on LJ Feed).
Today he pointed out (as his wife, in a moment of out-geeking the geek apparently pointed out to him last year) that today is Jedi Day!
May the Fourth be with you!
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04:22 pm
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Rock!
Oh, by the way...
coming in 2010 to a Lifeline Theatre near you...
From the adaptor/director team who brought you The Island of Dr. Moreau...
(and with violence design by R&D!!)....
Neil Gaimon's NEVERWHERE!!!
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12:11 pm
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Hank Cinc Pants
So, one of my friends posted with the subject: "Once more into the pants, dear friends, once more."
Which, of course, really got me started.....
"We are enough in the field to drown them if only some pants could be restored!" (bad paraphrase there...been a while).
"The king's a bawcock, and a pants of gold"
"We understand how you come over us with our wilder pants, not measuring what use we made of them."
"How is it possible she should love the enemy of pants? But in loving me, she should love the friend of pants. For I love pants so much I will not part with a single village of pants."
"The pants of the womens be full of deceits."
Oh man, this is way better than Casapants, and in fact comes close on the heels of Pants Wars.
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08:28 am
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Navaja
Hello all,
So, my google-foo is failing me. I am looking for a cheap Navaja. Preferably under 30 bucks, preferably over a six-inch blade (a foot overall). Doesn't need to be good quality, particularly. Don't care if it is sharp. Classic looks preferred.
Anyone know where I could find such a thing?
Thanks!
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08:05 pm
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Irish Egg Rolls
So, there we were, at the Abbey Pub. On the menu we see they now offer "Irish Egg Rolls". No explanation of what they are in the menu, so of course there was only one way to find out! (unless you count asking the waitress, which we don't.)
so...care to guess?
That's right - corned beef and cabbage rolled in thin spring roll wrappers and fried.
Really, really strange...and tasty.
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11:04 pm
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Kodo!
Kodo (Taicho drummers, nothing to do with giant riding lizards, apparently) was awesome. I want a drum that you play by hitting it with a rattan club about the size of a baseball bat! Jamie bruises when you do that to him, but these drums just go 'DOOM!' I wish I weren't so tired, I found myself dozing off, even though it was wonderful. Libby was surprised I could be dozy with that racket, but to me... dark, warm, huge sound of drums.... I sleep better with that combo than the other 50 weeks of the year...
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04:26 pm
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Best Wine Review
OK, 2 posts in one day? But I was looking at websites of restaurants near the CSO (we are going to hear the Kodo Drummers), (and we decided on Russian Tea Time) but one of the restaurants had this to say about one of their wines:
Elio Perone, “Bigaro,” Moscatto/Brachetto blend $12/gls or 48/btl Possibly the most enjoyable thing you will ever consume. Responsible for countless unplanned pregnancies, several spontaneous engagements, and the Grinch’s heart growing 3 sizes. This wine can change lives. Drink with caution.
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