Posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
So, uh, anyone know if The Office will ever be new again? Maybe I’m just spoiled because of how Lost is aired but seriously, this is ridiculous. You give people too much time away from a show and you make it hard for them to come back.
Same for How I Met Your Mother. [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
This past Saturday night in New York City, sitting in the front row of the Booth Theater watching the second to last performance of the new musical The Story of My Life, I learned a very valuable lesson: sometimes, the critics get it wrong. Unfortunately for this marvelous and moving musical, the critics’ mistake shut [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Busy day today but please come back at some point as I will be posting a review of The Story of My Life around lunch. It will be bittersweet to say the least.
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Posted in Uncategorized on February 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
That will go down as the best opening for the Oscars ever. Wow.
9:40pm: Ok, the Ben Stiller bit had me laughing so hard that it hurt. That was just too good. I like that the show this year feels a little bit looser, not quite as formal and uptight. Usually I would want that but [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Better. Much better. Answer to making your heroine sympathetic? Spend as much of the episode focused on her surroundings instead of her as you can. Duplicate Giles is a cool character. I like him and FBI man (I obviously do not know names yet).
Still having some problems with some of the undertones of the show. [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a little nervous about giving a full review of Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage as it could get me into trouble. So what I’ll do instead is list the ways in which this show could have been better and then I’ll let you guys decide for yourself whether to see it or [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Or should I say happy day off? I’m in desperate need of this day off. My apartment is a mess, the laundry basket is overflowing, there is this blog project I’m supposed to be working on (more on that later), and my finances could use a thorough going over. How much of all [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on February 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So I’ve been working at the Opera House the past week or so where the new musical adaptation of Dirty Dancing is playing to packed audiences. People are loving this thing. I’ll have more on the stage show once I properly sit down and watch it on Wednesday. But working these shows had left me [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on February 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As most of you know, I just came back from a work conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. We didn’t get much time to see the city but we did take a bus tour our last evening there. A tour that took us all around the beautiful city of New Orleans including the parts devastated by [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Friday 14 November:
8 a.m. Really beyond caring about things like Valentine’s Day. Is just so not important in general scheme of things.
8:20 a.m. Will just go downstairs and see if post has come.
8:22 a.m. Post has not come.
8:27 a.m. Post has still not come.
8:30 a.m. Post has come! Hurrah!
8:35 a.m. Was bank statement.
8:40 a.m. [...]
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