Archive for September, 2008
… Thanks for All the Fish
(credit to Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for “So Long and Thanks for All the Fish“)
A Happy Anniversary to Triscribe, as we get all excited about an exciting future. Or, at least, notwithstanding the unfortunate state of the economy, we’re living in some interesting times…
NY Times’ Edward Rothstein on an [...]
Posted: September 30th, 2008 under Brooklyn.
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Finding Xanadu 上都 and Five Years of Triscribe
Last night P- got me tickets to see Xanadu the musical as an advanced birthday present, as the show is closing this weekend. I got to see the talented Kerry Butler, who I actually knew in high school - she was the lead in all of our high school musicals when I was on the [...]
Posted: September 27th, 2008 under En route.
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Fall TV!
The tv people have to make up for last season’s strike reduced season. So, I’ve had some viewings and there was the big premiere (or as Time’s tv critic James Poniewozik puts it: “the best tv show of the fall”): the first of the Presidential debates!!!
I’ll leave it to the professional pundits and talking [...]
Posted: September 21st, 2008 under Brooklyn.
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Chicago Continued
A long post to recap on the Chicago trip with the siblings.
The weekend of the remnants of Hurricane Ike:
Flooded ‘burbs and their flooded roads made for scary moments (to me, but maybe not to my driver-sibling); certainly made it harder to drive around with no clear detours. (or, at least it seemed strange that [...]
Posted: September 20th, 2008 under Chicago.
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Chicago!
In Chicago for a vacation until Wednesday. I still want a really great staycation, but this will have to do.
FC had done the Chicago deep dish (okay, “stuffed”) pizza and the Amazing Race-like escapade. Can’t say that my siblings and I had any Amazing Race; it was mostly smooth, but for [...]
Posted: September 14th, 2008 under Chicago, En route.
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