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One more Eurovision song
I finally bought the album for this year's Eurovision. I listened to it on random today while sorting papers ( Read more... ) -
Eurovision Entries 2017
This year's Eurovision song contest features a ridiculously large number of videos with very gloomy visuals, some justified, some not. Over half were filmed with a very limited grey or brown color palette, many in full darkness with limited lighting. Some of those were even happy songs, such as Greece's, which is in grey with some color highlights ( Read more... ) -
The start of goodbye
I wrote this for a four-year-old, trying to minimize the amount of challenging vocabulary incorporated. Perhaps someone else out there would like something like this for their small person ( Read more... ) -
Pancake races
Apropos of an Oxford Reading Tree book...
Poll Pancake races -
Not a real post
I keep wanting to post things but can't currently make non-public posts. The interface won't let me. -
At Dawn
The Italian version of "Let it go" always seemed a little wordy compared to some of the others. It's called "All'alba sorgerò". At dawn, I will rise up ( Read more... ) -
Eurovision 2016
This year features lots of long curly-haired singers and very little scruffle, so that's good. Lots of outdoors cinemetography, and even more people inspired by last year's winner to do something with VR interactions, to variable success. There's a sad lack of dancing in the videos overall this year; hopefully the stage shows will do better ( Read more... ) -
Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on
I went to my first immersive theatre performance on Friday, a combination of trusting the parameters of something based on The Tempest and supporting a friend. It turns out that immersive theatre, at least this instance of it, is everything I hoped for from LARPs but never quite found there. I loved it. I loved it enough that I went back again, and ( Read more... ) -
Nutcracker
We had tickets today to go see the Nutcracker, the English National Ballet at the London Coliseum.
Back in December, in preparation, we checked out a copy of Ella Bella Ballerina and the Nutcracker from the library, the story of a girl who joins Clara in experiencing much of the plot. We've been reading it (by Grouting's request) on a near-daily ( Read more... ) -
The night of bad jokes
My sister tells me that telling jokes to earn one's treat for Halloween is a Des Moines thing. People in the DC area don't do it. Really?
Poll What do they say on Halloween?