Category: play
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Boomerang
I couldn’t finish reading Boomerang, Michael Lewis’s book about how all the bankers in the world simultaneously became irresponsible jerks. Not that it wasn’t a good book; far from it, the book was easy to read and the author seems to know quite a lot about how the financial world works and why it went… Read.
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Mars Attacks!
You know those smarty-pants movie reviews that go, “I watched Mars Attacks! so you won’t have to”? Well, I’m not gonna do that. You’re on your own with Mars Attacks! I watched the first forty minutes, and that was all I could stand. I nodded off in a few places, if that tells you anything.… Read.
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Godzilla
When a pair of giant cockroaches invade your city (and when I said giant, I mean taller than the tallest buildings), dig a hole that’s as wide as five city blocks and lay their eggs in it, who you gonna call? Godzilla, right? There was a scene, just before the final battle between the mighty kaiju… Read.
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crash
The Lost Continent Railway had its first visitors last Saturday, my cousin Carrie’s three boys, who are possibly into trains more than I am. Every one of them was wearing a train-themed t-shirt, and the oldest boy had an engineer’s cap (gotta get me one of those, no matter how dorky it makes me look). … Read.
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tasters
I only had ten beers, honest! And I feel just fine! We stopped by Harmony Bar after work for a free beer tasting they were hosting as part of craft beer week. I tried six or eight beers (it may have been as many as ten, but I don’t want to sound like I’m bragging)… Read.
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interregnum
So they do the ticket sales a little different at the Cork & Barrel. The guy from the guild came by at eight to give us a little slip of paper with numbers 104 and 105, marking our place in line. That’s the way it’s always been before, but then he ran through the rules… Read.
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lined up
This is going to sound crazy, but we got out of bed at five o’clock this morning in order to buy tickets to the Great Taste of the Midwest. We’ve gotten up early before but, if memory serves (and I’m not saying it does) this is the earliest we’ve rolled out of bed to get… Read.
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Shimoda salmon festival
Let’s Go To The Shimoda Salmon Festival With The O-Family! I think it was only a week or two after we got here, but that could be my addled memory making a hash again out of everything I’ve ever seen. Anyway, we heard about the salmon festival, where you pay a couple hundred yen to… Read.
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The Big Country
If I had to recommend a classic Western to someone who’d never seen one before, I think I’d tell them to rent a copy of Billy Wilder’s The Big Country. From the opening sequence of a stage coach coming to town, Wilder framed every scene so his subject would look tiny and lost in the panoramic… Read.
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