Browsing the blog archives for the year 2009

Friday Geek Out: “Stage” CDs

In the late 90′s a couple of excellent CDs were released: Stage 1: How I Love You (1996) and Stage 2: The Human Heart (1997) were projects that collected some well known show tunes and other standards that were typically sung between men and women and made them sung between men. Dink Records put these [...]

We Wrote A Show on A Couch and Ended Up At Carnegie Hall

Check out the [title of show] gang’s Carnegie Hall experience. It’s a pretty awesome behind-the-scenes look that is very[tos].

New Year Goals 2009

Of course with the start of the new year comes the pondering of goals… along with how I did on last year’s goals. Here’s the recap of ’08: Still better fitness: I’d basically say I didn’t do good here at all. We ate out way too much, which made keeping pounds off difficult. I also [...]

Morning Hockey Rocks, Evening Hockey Not So Much

I always enjoy Ronnie’s Ice. I’m sure that’s been apparent over the many hockey entries I’ve written. Yesterday morning’s, however, was Ronnie’s at its best. After three weeks of being at 8am, due to the holidays, it rolled  back to 4am. I loved that hour the most because it means fewer people and getting to [...]

Friday Geek Out: Grand Hotel

One of my fondest Broadway moments was seeing Grand Hotel in the summer of 1990.  This musical was  based on the Oscar winning 1932 movie of the same name which starred Greta Garbo, John Barrymore and Joan Crawford. The show focuses on the guests at the Grand Hotel: a fading ballerina who needs to be [...]

New Year’s Hockey Madness

It was a great New Year’s Day for hockey. The NHL played the second Winter Classic this afternoon from Wrigley Field in Chicago. It was an awesome game with the Detroit Red Wings beating the home team Chicago Blackhawks by a score of 6-4. It was a nail-biter too because Chicago dominated the game in [...]