Browsing the blog archives for July, 2008

Friday Geek Out: James Joyce’s The Dead

I have a special fondness for some of the darker, serious, subtle, more intense musicals that were dominating Broadway when we first moved the NYC. Some  shows in this category include The Wild Party, Marie Christine, Ragtime and this week’s Geek Out choice James Joyce’s The Dead. The Dead ran on Broadway from December 1999 [...]

When I Knew

Last night we watched the HBO documentary When I Knew, which features an array of people telling the stories of the first time they realized they were gay. Some of the stories are amusing, like the man who was obsessed with the man on the Doan’s Pills box. Some are what you might call “regular” [...]

Hello, I’m a PC that wants to be a Mac

This Mac commercial sums up my experience with Vista (except I don’t have a yoga studio or messed up billing). I bought a new Dell laptop last September and it came installed with Vista. I wasn’t happy about that, but there was no option to allow me to get it installed with XP. I figured [...]