Walking Projects
Fairfax Cross County Trail, 41 miles: completed 2 July 2010.
(more…)Meta
More Me
- Connotea bookmarks
- All-purpose profile
Monthly Archives: November 2006
Clockwork moon
Jo Marchant brings us up to date on the reconstruction of the Antikythera Mechanism, a second- or first-century BCE gearwork model of the heavens salvaged from a shipwreck more than 1,900 years later. Michael Wright has used computer-assisted tomography on … Continue reading
The Little Prince
RHT brings a gentle touch to the theatrical elements of this adaption of the short novel by Saint-Exupéry, the wide-eyed fairy tale well-known to tenth-grade French students nationwide. The Snake first appears behind a scrim, then fully lit but still … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Theater
Leave a comment
Roundabout
Christopher Joyce hangs out in Thomas Circle with Brian Hayes, student of street furniture. Not in the Thomas Circle neighborhood, but in Thomas Circle. Follow the link for a nice slideshow of manhole covers. Related: Drainspotting, including snaps of manhole … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Tools and Technology
Leave a comment
The thrill when you get it right in public
Daphne Merkin covers a lot of the usual ground in her profile of Tom Stoppard, born Tomas Straussler. (The piece accompanies the opening of The Coast of Utopia in New York.) But, towards the close of the article, an insight … Continue reading
Posted in Theater
Leave a comment
Giving thanks
I am thankful that, of all my problems, or issues that I think are problems, I always have some means of controlling the outcome or mitigating the situation. I am thankful for the printed word. Wherever I am, I can … Continue reading
Posted in Like Life
Leave a comment
Unerased, sampled
I’ve just finished rereading The Erasers, by Alain Robbe-Grillet, translated from Les Gommes by Richard Howard. Robbe-Grillet is one of the champions of the nouveau roman, and The Erasers (1953) is his first published novel. Ostensibly a detective story, it … Continue reading
Posted in Prose Fiction
Leave a comment
Fallout
Via Ward-O-Matic, Conelrad is “devoted to ATOMIC CULTURE past and present but without all the distracting and pedantic polemics.” A featured multi-page article provides the production history of “the Citizen Kane of of Civil Defense,” Duck and Cover. A few … Continue reading
Posted in History
Leave a comment
Back to school
I’m working on a scene for Michael S., who is taking a directing class at the Studio Theatre. I’m doing a 5-minute scene from Jon Klein’s Dimly Perceived Threats to the System with scene partner Amal. Klein’s play is a … Continue reading
Posted in Backstage
Leave a comment
So long, Robert
Robert Altman, director of one of my favoritest films, Nashville, has passed away.
Posted in Film, In Memoriam
Leave a comment
Leftovers
Via Boing Boing, Chris Ware’s Thanksgiving offering for The New Yorker. Yum.
Posted in Comics
Leave a comment
Martha, Josie, and the Chinese Elvis
Woolly’s American premiere of Jones’s comedy set in Bolton, in the north of England, may not knock it for six, but the solid production does score a run. The signature Woolly Mammoth theatrical elements are present: a dominatrix mom considering … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Theater
Leave a comment
Shadow this
Steven Soderbergh recovers 1940s-era moviemaking techniques to film his postwar noir The Good German. By reproducing the conditions of an actual studio shoot from the late 1940s, he hoped to enter the mind of a filmmaker like [Michael] Curtiz, to … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Leave a comment
The DNA of Literature
Ooh shiny: I need to catch up on my reading of archived interviews from The Paris Review with Edward Albee (1966), Arthur Miller (1966), Marianne Moore (1961), and Harold Pinter (1966). The archives release schedule has taken us into the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Theater
Leave a comment
Mother of hundreds
Daniel Mosquin photographs Mammillaria compressa at the Botanical Gardens of The Huntington. I’ve added the Huntington to my checklist of places to visit the next time I’m in Southern California.
Posted in Natural Sciences
Leave a comment
Undesecrate that genitive!
Languagehat quotes and comments on a story about the German version of the greengrocer’s apostrophe, Idiotenapostroph.
Posted in Words Words Words
Leave a comment
