Things That Are Orange

14 June 2014

Squeeze Box

So I skipped pride as the parade in these parts tends to be all banks, church groups and politicians.

Instead, I went to an accordion festival. Which was just as bizarre as it sounds.

27 February 2014

People With Whom I have No LinkedIn Contacts in Common, But Who LinkedIn Thinks I Should Know

Please note, I have not uploaded any contact list, and my account is from a work account that I never used when online dating:

my friend L. – who I met while writing my graduate thesis
J – friend from college who i helped write a fundraising letter for
C - a sorority sister of my actual sister
my freaking optometrist
my friend J in LA
Jeff O. the first person i ever went out on an OkCupid date with, who i went on exactly one date with and never talked to again
my friend S from college, who I have never emailed from work
a professor who i recently wrote a report on, but whom i have never emailed
my colleague Bob's wife (I am not connected with Bob on LinkedIn)
one of my favorite professors from college (nice to know he's moved to Barbados)
my friend’s sister-in-law
my former upstairs neighbor (the one with the baby),
my sister’s friend Jess, who i don't think i have ever emailed ever from any account,
my old boss’ friend Roxanne
and someone else with my name

Google LinkedIn hacking law suit, just for fun. Or check out the LinkedIn message board of people asking how it accessed their contacts without permission...

05 December 2013

How do you solve a problem like Maria?

I missed the first 10 minutes, but let the live blog begin...

8:13 - I already hate Carrie Underwood with the fire of one thousand suns...

8:16 - wow - the poor thing is so outclassed by La McDonald... And my standards were set so high by Petie Duraine...

8:22 during the commercial break, are we going to call him Captain Bill or Vampire Von Trapp?

8:24 clearly Vampire Von Trapp: VVT for short

8:25 - my god, he's worse than she is!

8:26 - wow - I miss Brandi Stevens, who played the maid in the Lamoille County Players for just about ever.

8:28 - other than Audra, this is totally a community theatre production. Which is charming, but I think someone overpaid...

8:32 - I can't tell if the kids belong in theater, rather than on screen, or if the source material is just unfilmable in a tone other than abject earnestness...

8:32 1/2: fuck - this song [doe a deer]! She's going to make my ears bleed. :(

8:34 - in their defense - this may be my least favorite song on the planet...

8:36 - I think that if this were on stage, I might love it.

8:38 - also, so nice to hear voices that are not auto tuned.

8:43. - oh god this scene [Liesl and Rolf]. Can we fast forward through live tv?

8:46 Once I read: "I think it would have been particularly helpful for the eldest daughter, who seems intent on losing her virginity to the mailman." In this McSweeny's piece, I could never hear this wretched song again...

9:49. - wow that poor thing had to do a lot more choreography (and rolling) than the chick in the movie

8:51 - Mme. Underwood is such a terrible, terrible actress. Such a sweet voice, and yet...

8:54 - boys are brave, my ass

8:56 - They should have made a concert album, and not made that poor child act...

9:00 - while I know the stage show better than the move, I acknowledge that song needed goat puppets

9:03 - oh, baroness, you are just the best!

9:04: VVT is just dire

9:05 - "and I smoke a big cigar..."

9:07 - "just something lavish..."

9:08 - Okay - this [How Can Love Survive] is one of my favorite songs in musical theatre. Bring it!

9:10 - The Baroness is just not selling it. More than Carrie Underwood's Carrie Underwoodness, that makes me sad...

9:15 ah ah ah ah

9:16 - Does it look to anyone else that VVT is "singing" in front of a green screen?

9:22 - I have totally recast this show on FB. Kelli O'Hara as Maria, Idina Menzel as the Baroness, Norbert Leo Butz as the baron, Matthew Broderick as Max...it could have been great

9:25 - "that one lady, I think she was here all the time" line always strikes me as false

9:26 - Sarah Leas taught me this dance (the Ländler) one night during a performance. I think of her every time I gear this music

9:28 - also, Maria's dress is absurd

9:33- precious children. Adieu to yieu and yieu and whatever

9:34 - I realize that I am I the minority of fans of the Sound Music, hating both Maria and the children...

9:35 - goodbye

9:35 1/2 "and it wouldn't do me any harm..."

9:39 - I have a great story about this part of the stage play - what happens when Gretel throws up, and Maria comes up in the wrong dress and the maid and one kid are stuck on stage while all this shit is going on around them. Ask me about it sometime.

9:37 - did they not do this at the beginning? The nuns are the best music in the show!!!

9:43 - I am quivering in anticipation of Audra McDonald singing Climb Every Mountain

9:48 Who knew that the part that Audra McDonald was born to play was an Austrian nun? #crying

9:54 - I feel these kids don't understand that they're miked...

9:55. - oh my god, Vampire Von Trapp, stfu!!!

9:57 - I'm missing Scandal for this?

10:05 - another of my favorite songs coming up!

10:06 - I'm hoping that everyone who didn't understand why the only role I'd go back for is the Baroness is listening to the lyrics to this song...

10:09 - wow vampire bill is even worse than I could have anticipated

10:11 - I want frau's red pants

10:14 - live tv is breathy

10:15 - this song [Something Good] isn't in the original script. We certainly used it, but with pasted in sides...

10:16 - Jesus. He's sooooo bad. What made anyone think he could do live theater?

10:20 - sad that it skipped the best part of that number :(

10:25 - a bit behind, as I really wanted a nice video of the Confitemini Domino - which wasn't in the wedding program this time...

10:30 - what?

10:31 - I mean that hair? That's something that we're all just going with?

10:35 ?

10:36 - was that a line flub?

10:37: another incongruous dress

10:48 - god, he is just *so* bad! Did Sookie Stackhouse steal all his mojo?

10:44 - Jesus, just, what? VVT is so, so bad, so bad.

10:48 - god. I don't even care anymore.

10:50 - are we really 10 minutes from the end? Spark plugs and cemeteries and the climb every mountain reprise?

10:55 - that "we didn't know we'd put the abbey in such danger" is another one of those disingenuous lines...

10:56 - also - what's on the other side of the alps? Germany...

10:59 - and that's what was that was...

11:00 - nothing comes from nothing. Nothing ever could...(and then I changed channels and Jon Stewart wasn't singing. Peace out.)

22 August 2013

Meh

Not sure about your RSS feed, but mine didn't replace the hasty first post (which included a typo in the title) with the better reviewed one (which occurred once I'd uploaded the photo to the feminist tumblr and actually looked at it).

Apologies.

Haste makes title typos not caught by spellcheck...

Out of Character

okay - I've had this thing for several years now (at this moment, I'm trying not to think about for how many). and for the most part, I've wanted to stay anonymous (the elf will tell you that even LinkedIn scares privacy-conscious me). However this is absurd, and i want to be a part. and Luddite me, can't figure out how to upload a picture to this without posting it online first. So here it is - my internet debut, after however many years: