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Another dream rolling around the deck of m'brain...
...in anticipation of the upcoming release of the blockbuster Treasure Island movie, some cheezy TV station is playing re-runs of the old TV series based (loosely) on the book. Coming into the middle of a story: after drugging the ship's chaplain and bumbling surgeon, one of the ship's crew, an inexperienced pirate, is sent aloft to shout orders ( Read more... ) -
No More Heroes Anymore
Last year, I stopped a building, with hundreds of helpless people, from burning down ( Read more... ) -
I've got a little list...
A lovely christmas present to my wife and I was a pair of tickets to see the Mikado performed at City Center last Friday. The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of NYC did a very nice job. I wish you all could have come with us. -
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I am apprehensive about the current "health plan overhaul" that is being proposed in the Senate Finance Comittee. In brief ( Read more... ) -
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I was just reading about Senator Baucus's proposed health plancompromise = no one is happy ( Read more... ) -
Potter in brief
No spoilers, in case anyone out there hasn't read the book, but ( Read more... ) -
Random Observation #356
The opening line to Neuromancer, William Gibson's seminal cyberpunk novel, is something like:
The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead channel.I find this amusing. We now live in a digital age, where the old black and white static is a thing of the past. Now, a dead channel reveals a bright clear blue screen, completely reversing the ( Read more... ) -
Ahead to the Past (or The Sound of Musicians)
What with Pennsic looming gloriously ahead, I am reminded that I did not post about Gulf Wars, so here goes: ( Read more (and more - it goes on and on...) ) -
Pennsic! Woo!
We got our merchant space assignment, pretty much across the street from our previous space, which will make us easier to find. I seven and three quarter types of psyched for this upcoming Pennsic. Be there or be quadrilateral ( Read more... ) -
Rhoda Unsensored
Listening to NPR the other day, I heard an interview with Valerie Harper ("Rhoda" of Mary Tyler-Moore as well as her own fame) who is playing Telula Bankhead in a play called "Looped". It's running through June in the DC area. Both the Ms.'s Harper and Bankhead seem to be remarkable women, and I wish it were possible for me to see the play ( Read more... )