Groundbreaking Work
August 3rd, 2008 | 0 Comments | Entertainment |
Over at the Literary Cafe, Andy is pioneering new and better uses for mapmyride.com
Am I A Nerd?
July 23rd, 2008 | 0 Comments | Entertainment, Strange Site Of The Week |
Not as nerdy as most. A “cool light-weight nerd” am I, which is certainly a step or five up from where I was in high school. I won this cool badge:
Top 100s
June 25th, 2008 | 5 Comments | Books, Entertainment, Movies, Music |
The nice people at Entertainment Weekly have been good enough to entertain us with a set of “new classics” top 100 lists. These lists, thank goodness, recognize the inherent bias in the “of all time” lists I’m always griping about and make it clear that these are the top 100 of the last 25 years. [...]
Annie Get Your Gun
June 9th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Entertainment, Music |
All this month I’m playing in the pit orchestra for a production of “Annie Get Your Gun,” at the Villagers Theater in Franklin Township, NJ. Of all the shows I’ve played, this one is close to the top of my faves list.
It’s an Irving Berlin number dating back to 1946, and was a big [...]
Friday Night at the Lit
May 23rd, 2008 | 0 Comments | Entertainment, Family, Home |
We had a mini-family reunion at the Literary Cafe tonight. Here’s Denise Santa Maria, cousin Shari Bruce and her husband Rey.
And me, Carol Kerslake, and Vern Morrison.
Gen-Y Gazes At Its Collective Navel And Pulls Forth A List
April 30th, 2008 | 19 Comments | Entertainment |
What do Empire’s list of the 50 Greatest TV Shows Of All Time have in common? All but four of them aired in the ’90s and ’00s. Apparently someone held a gun to their head and said, don’t you dare leave out the original Star Trek or Monty Python.
I really have no problem with [...]
Cabaret
April 12th, 2008 | 2 Comments | Entertainment |
I’ve been really busy the last few weekends playing in the orchestra for a production of “Cabaret.” While never seen the stage production and only bits and pieces of the movie, still in my mind I’d felt comfortable dismissing it as some Liza Minelli sequins-and-eyeshadow star vehicle. Wouldn’t you know, that’s not the case.
The [...]
Axes of Evil
March 24th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Entertainment |
The three terribly addictive online games I’ve wasted the most time on: Boomshine, Desktop Tower Defense, Constellations.
A pox on those of you who pointed me to them.
John Adams: The Mini-Series
March 17th, 2008 | 31 Comments | Entertainment |
Did any of you guys catch the first two episodes of John Adams? I did. Very well done. Love the casting. But not a first.
At first I thought, “Ah Gawd, Paul Giamatti as John Adams! How am I ever gonna take this seriously?” Not that there’s anything wrong with Giamatti, but I must just [...]
Kind of Makes Me Ashamed…
March 4th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Entertainment |
…to be a sci-fi fan. The things some of these geeks say…
I caught up with the season finale of the new Terminator series on Fox this evening, and there was one scene I thought was exceptionally creative for a TV show of this kind. The setup: A deadly robot posing as an FBI agent. Another [...]
My VCR Is Obsolete
February 12th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Entertainment |
I used to set my VCR to tape certain TV shows when I had to be out for a rehearsal. Funny how the only shows I like are on the nights I regularly have rehearsals. But — and don’t ask me why it took me so long to figure this out — the last few [...]
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