Category: play

  • phantom

    Practically not menacing at all. Read.

  • sing

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    A pair of invaders from outer space accidentally blow each other’s heads off. Just kidding. It’s the swing classic, “Sing Sing Sing,” performed on Tesla coils. I get a great big nerd boner from this, while My Darling B thinks it’s perhaps the most annoying thing she’s ever heard. Read.

  • patio

    As she was driving across town yesterday afternoon, making a mental list of all the things she would need from the store to make eggs Benedict for dinner that evening, My Darling B realized that dinner and this lovely day would be best enjoyed at the same time on a patio, and that’s how we… Read.

  • rant

    Laughed my ass off. Really. I have no ass. Read.

  • DNA

    Still makes as much sense today as it did then: [An extraterrestrial robot and spaceship has just landed on earth. The robot steps out of the spaceship.] “I come in peace,” it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, “take me to your Lizard.” Ford Prefect, of course, had an explanation for this,… Read.

  • casemod

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    What I’ve always wanted is to have a model train layout like the old-timers used to have: A tangled pile of spaghetti in a small corner of the basement with simple block control from a master control panel that has lots and lots of switches with toggles as thick as your thumb and a throttle… Read.

  • after

    After the Thin Man is a movie so unlike The Thin Man that it hardly counts as a sequel. In the first movie, Nick and Nora drink more gin than any two people have ever drunk at any time in human history. And, incidentally, there’s a murder mystery that gets solved more or less accidentally… Read.

  • thin

    When THE STORM OF THE CENTURY blew into town yesterday afternoon, I was a little worried we wouldn’t be able to get to the library before it closed and we’d have to postpone our Nick and Nora weekend until next Friday. But no! My Darling B’s winter driving skills prevailed against the snow and slush… Read.

  • toothy

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    I didn’t like Jonathan Coulton the first time I saw him in concert at the Majestic in downtown Madison. There. I said it. It was my dark secret, but now it’s out in the open. Unleash your very worst flames in the comments, I deserve them all. Paul & Storm opened for him and, after… Read.

  • balloon

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    Just a guy with a ukelele. Same guy, with a guitar this time. Other guy’s got a uke. Read.

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