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 ( Read more... )

No Pennsic for me after all.

Woot!  So it looks like we will be going to Pennsic after all!  Not for 2 weeks, but at least for War week ( Read more... )

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!

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!!!

So, one of my friends posted with the subject: "Once more into the pants, dear friends, once more ( Read more... )

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!

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 ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )