Here are the shows I've seen this year. Theaters are in New York City unless otherwise noted.

1. The Little Prince (Lookingglass Theatre, Chicago)
   
2. A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (Broadway)
   
3. Loot (Lucille Lortel Theatre)
   
4. Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (New York Neo-Futurists)
   
5. Outside Mullingar (Broadway ( Read more... )

Making a list of all-time favorite movies is a difficult task. There are very few movies I've seen more than once, and none recently. It's hard to recall the state of mind before, during, and after watching each movie. Furthermore, it's much easier to do pairwise comparisons than actual rankings, which require more comparisons and often reveal the ( Read more... )

When I was a kid, up until I left home for college, I loved computer games. Mostly strategy games and old adventure games, not typically very violent. However, I basically haven't played any computer games for over 8 years ( Read more... )

I saw Belleville at New York Theater Workshop. It had good reviews and it was a decent play, but it was not quite satisfying in the end ( Read more... )

Trying to be more incremental this year...

• Collision - Another amoral play by The Amoralists. Two college freshmen are roommates. One of them gets a girl to sleep with him and them manipulates her into sleeping with his roommate. He hates one of his professors and gets his roommate to agree to a plan whereby they will lure the professor to their ( Read more... )

I've been delaying this too long and it's already February, so here it is. The plays I saw in 2012, in chronological order:

1. The Book of Mormon - I finally broke down, picked a date a few months in the future, and paid $312 to sit in the fourth row. While not matching my own style of humor, I must admit that the show was very well done. If you like ( Read more... )

The alt text to Monday's XKCD is, coincidentally, perhaps the most apt description of the board game Galaxy Trucker I've yet read: "Another thing that is a bad problem is if you're flying toward space and the parts start to fall off your space car in the wrong order. If that happens, it means you won't go to space today, or maybe ever."

The Economist has a post about the use of "modulo" as a preposition. Apparently, this use of "modulo" is recorded in the OED, as well as being on Wikipedia's list of prepositions.

I'm proud to have been among those grammaticizing "modulo" as a preposition for years.

Yes, I did write this post in part to have a valid reason to use the word "

Although I've still been seeing theater lately, it's been a while since I posted an entry about it. I just saw something at a hilarious performance of One Man, Two Guvnors which seems worth writing down though ( Read more... )

I saw a lot of theater last year. By my count, I saw 40 distinct plays last year, more if you count repeat viewings and double features. I've made some attempt to rank order my "favorite" plays, of which I have 12. The rest are listed in alphabetical order. If I had a LiveJournal post which talks about or refers to the play, I've included a link.

1. ( Read more... )