Quickie for Those Who Want a Good Laugh
Ray introduced me to this blog, and I’ll never forgive him, because this guy is really good, and I’m actually spending valuable time reading his stuff instead of getting work done. Chez, the blogger in question, loves Firefly AND Battlestar Galactica, so he already got my attention. But besides all that, he’s actually really insightful and frightfully funny. Anyway, if you’re in the mood for some political joking around, read his post about Bush in the year 2014.
Filed under Politics | Comment (0)The Weekend
So I visited my stereotypical Italian relatives this weekend…my brother and I went to Long Island to visit our great-aunt and various and sundry cousins. It was fun, mostly because they LOVE to talk. Seriously stereotypical, but very fun.
Besides that, my great-aunt found out that I knit and she offered to take me “shopping” in her basement collection of yarns. It was amazing! All that yarn organized by color and type. I was very excited.
After my visit with the fam, I went to see Serenity. Wow, that was a great movie. I mean, I was a fan because I liked the TV show Firefly, but this was REALLY good. I encourage all of you to go see it now and then see it again. It was really, really good.
Filed under Family, Movies, Television | Comment (0)Perfectly Horrible
I just saw a horrendous performance of Cabaret last night. It was kind of a mesh of the original, revival, and movie scripts all rolled into one.
The only reason I went at all was because a friend of mine had a student playing the part of Cliff. He was actually decent, although the production was so terrible it would have been hard for Lawrence Olivier to do a good job.
I would probably just write this off as just a bad community theater experience, but this kind of crap is what gives community theater a bad name, and that makes me sad. There are plenty decent community theaters out there. Why didn’t this audience patronize those theaters?
The other thing is that this theater is on Staten Island, which is a hop, skip, and a jump from Manhattan. There are plenty of Off-Broadway and even Off-Off-Broadway productions that aren’t too expensive and which are really, truly good. And yet the audience there loved it. They were positively overflowing with praise for this no-good, two-bit, piece of 狗屎. I just don’t get it.
Filed under Musicals | Comment (0)Use the Farm, Cuke
Because I feel so guilty about using those chemicals on the poison ivy, I think it is my duty to urge everyone to join the Organic Rebellion. Seriously, check it out; it’s a really hilarious Star Wars parody with grocery store vegetables.
Other pop culture tidbits…I just ordered my Firefly DVD, which has the complete season on it, including some unaired episodes. I know it probably came out a while ago, but I’ve been busy and not with it. I’m very excited though, since I will now be able to see all episodes in order before Serenity comes out in September. There are actually some really cool fan t-shirts out there. Of course I bought one. I’m such a dork.
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