Tuesday at Concordia (Concord Madrigals has a new name) rehearsal's break, one of the women announced that she had two tickets to the Boston Symphony Orchestra for that night, with free parking as well, free to anyone who wanted them? I had no commedia and no other plans for that night, so I took the tickets. I spent a while finding a friend to ( Read more... )

A week or so ago I saw the film of The Merchant of Venice. I really loved the set design and costumes and torch/candle light in this movie. It was a feast for my eyes. The anti-semitism issue wasn't avoided or softened, either. In fact, the film seemed to want to show Jewish life in Venice in as historically accurate a way as possible (though ( Read more... )

Last Saturday I had a wonderful time at my birthday party. The house was filled with friends bearing fine food. Desserts, desserts, desserts!! (willowhispcame up with a way of remembering how to spell desert and dessert; "Desserts have Sweet Stuff, and deserts just have Sand." Clever kid, huh?) I wish I'd had a chance to talk more with some people, but I ( Read more... )

From jdulac: Put this in your LJ info:

I am not, nor will I ever be, a user of any service that defeats other journal's privacy filters.

Simple.

It just shows where you stand.

Here I am in NYC. Keith zudensternen and I came here to see Christo's & Jeanne-Claude's "The Gates" in Central Park. We walked about there this afternoon and took pictures. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked it; I usually think Modern Art is pretentious bovinepoopy. This was really beautiful, and there were lots of wandering, um, curators? who ( Read more... )

In siderea's journal, She's coping with a desire to read ahead in her grad school textbooks, while needing to keep track of the things she's not supposed to know yet from unassigned chapters. That reminded several people that one thing they hated about English classes back in elementary school was when the teacher would assign some number of chapters and ( Read more... )

Next Saturday (February 26th) is my birthday. In honor of the fact that it conveniently falls on a Saturday, I'm having a Party at my house in Concord, starting at 6PM. I sent some invitations out already, but if you didn't get one, it probably means I don't have your email address, or your spam filter got the evite rather than you, or you live ( Read more... )

dreda asked, (Inspired by a recent siderea) post, why we do Live Journal? I'm responding here, so you can read my answer.

I joined because cvirtue suggested it--she said she used it to keep connected to friends who lived far away or who weren't prolific letter/email correspondents, and to let them into her own life. I'm not a good letter/email correspondent, either ( Read more... )

I've not been posting recently because I played some "bloggames" (see, rickthefightguy, I'm helping!) and I didn't feel like I ought to make new posts until I caught up on my obligations to deal with the old ones. So I'm back to the Ask 5 questions, and post the answers in your LJ, then invite anyone who wants questions from you to ask for them in your LJ, etc ( Read more... )

My sister-in-law knits, and I'd like to give her a gift certificate to a good source of yarns and supplies, but I don't knit, and so I don't know what would be good sources of supplies.

I know some of you knit (like tpau, I think?), so could you please help me? What on-line or non-local stores would be good for a gift certificate? She lives in ( Read more... )