So, my computer died a little while I was batteau-ing. But I wanted to come post this.

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I really need to update, not because it's been so long, but because i have a tendency to be long winded.

Mitch Hedburg died, and that is so sad. He lives on in the appropriated one-liners that embellish my speech. :( If you haven't, you should listen to Mitch All Together.

Last week Richmond Ballet made their New York City debut at the Joyce ( Read more... )

New pictures are up of the shows I went to this week. Highlights: The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players are so akwardly cute and funny that they are hip. (Family Slideshow Players are deck). Their little drummer girl is 11! The Nellie McKay experience was quite different; she talked about 1/10 as much as she did at Lincoln Center, but then ( Read more... )

It's just a birthday-heavy month, really. First, though, Stephen Petronio was really cool. He uses a fair amount of pop music, which threw me off. The company is celebrating it's 20th anniversary, so they did a piece from 90, 95, 2000, and a preview of a 2006 work. The first one was actually a prelude from a longer work, to a placebo song, and ( Read more... )

Matthew Bourne's show was amazing. You should all see it, really. I went to Boston the next day, and Zeke ended up getting me to ride a bike last weekend, of all things. Not that I was very good at it, but I did have a good time for a while, and it was a gorgeous day ( Read more... )

This made me smile today.


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Today I ate lunch with another cousin I haven't seen in about 7 years. He looks like this.

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amusing ditty about a poor campaign

also, I got a spam that looked like this:

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Tonight I saw Nellie McKay. That young lady is so fucking delightful-- charmed the pants right off me, she did. She had a very apparent sore throat, but held everyone's attention and respect (except for the few folks who thought they'd come to a "nice show at Lincoln Center" and were not prepared for curses and radical politics). She was ( Read more... )

A couple things I forgot to mention about Baltimore ( Read more... )