If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s when a magazine “freshens up” it’s look. ARGH! It seems every time I flip the to the page with the masthead, there’s a new name at the top and 99.99% of the time that new editor has a fresh new “vision.” DOUBLE ARGH! I understand that the [...]
29Sep07
Pet Peeves: Magazine Redisigns
29Sep07
Saturday’s Mixed Topic Post
Reason 3,549 Why Not Being Legally Married is Problem: Signing up for health insurance at the new job, which does offer domestic partner coverage (which is, of course, great), is made all the more difficult because I have to produce a notarized document certifying that we are domestic partners. If we were legally married, I’d [...]
September 28, 1987…Trekkies around the world huddled in front of their TVs to see if Star Trek: The Next Generation would live up to their expectations. Almost uniformly, that initial answer was no. That first episode, “Encounter at Farpoint” was a bit slow, a bit stiff and a bit disappointing. But the series quickly recovered [...]
25Sep07
Dancing with the Stars, Week 1
Dancing with the Stars opened its fifth season strong on Monday and Tuesday night with a girl vs. guy competition. Monday night the girls brought their foxtrots and cha-chas to the dancefloor and the guys answered the challenge on Tuesday. By far, this was the strongest opening show in the five seasons with no one [...]
23Sep07
Across the Universe
I really wanted to love this movie. It was certainly one that I should have loved, right? I love The Beatles; I love musicals; I love movie musicals that have big visual style. All of that is present in Across The Universe and yet, as a package, the film didn’t move me one way or [...]
22Sep07
Happy Fall (almost)
Happy Fall! It is, as regular readers know, my favorite time of year. Crisp air, clear skies… and it means the snow will be here sooner rather than later (unless this year is like last when there was such a sad snow drought). It doesn’t feel very fall-esque today, but there’ve been hints of it [...]
21Sep07
Friday Geek Out: Hair
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the world premiere of Hair at New York’s Public Theater. And Geek Out is celebrating because this weekend the Public is doing special anniversary concert stagings of the musical at its theater is Central Park. (I’m sad I’m not going to one of these performances; I just can’t [...]
