Monthly Archives: January 2007

Seussical update

Posted on Tuesday, 30 January 2007 by David Gorsline

Well, we’ve been in rehearsals for Seussical for three weeks. The big concern so far has been turnover in the cast: we’ve lost one cast member who was facing a much heavier load at work, and three of the team … Continue reading →

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Some links: 10

Posted on Tuesday, 30 January 2007 by David Gorsline

Time to vote for the Bloggies.

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Not a kid anymore

Posted on Monday, 29 January 2007 by David Gorsline

Via Arts & Letters Daily, Joseph Epstein watches himself begin to run down. Sleep has become erratic. Someone not long ago asked me if I watched Charlie Rose, to which I replied that I am usually getting up for the … Continue reading →

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Some links: 9

Posted on Friday, 26 January 2007 by David Gorsline

Via things magazine, a visit to the ruins of the Sutro Baths at the San Francisco oceanfront.

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Pullquote contest: 1

Posted on Tuesday, 23 January 2007 by David Gorsline

Via The Morning News, Dr. Scott reviews each episode of House. I did think it was clever that he noticed the distended jugular veins. As soon as I saw them, I started yelling “She has a cardiac tamponade” at the … Continue reading →

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Change partners and dance

Posted on Monday, 22 January 2007 by David Gorsline

Gloryoski, WETA 90.9 FM has given up on being an imitation WAMU and has gone back to programming Western art music (“classical” music, if you must).

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Almost there

Posted on Sunday, 21 January 2007 by David Gorsline

Everything is back the way I wanted it, but what for the love of Michael J. Fox is that white hairline in the subtitle?

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Coming back up

Posted on Saturday, 20 January 2007 by David Gorsline

I’m in the process of restoring this blog’s theme after an unexpected WP upgrade clobbered my customizations. More the fool me for not saving the customizations in a separate folder. Well, I’ve learned that lesson.

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Festival post mortem

Posted on Monday, 15 January 2007 by David Gorsline

Saturday at the festival was dominated by plays with a sports metaphor: our own The Gold Lunch, a 60-minute reduction of Richard Dresser’s Rounding Third from Thurmont Thespians, and a very strong production of Never Swim Alone by Daniel MacIvor … Continue reading →

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Still with us

Posted on Sunday, 14 January 2007 by David Gorsline

Deborah Solomon interviews John Ashbery. …you have never been asked to serve as poet laureate of the U.S. Is that a snub? I really don’t think I’m poet-laureate material. It’s not something you would like to do? I don’t think … Continue reading →

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Theater festival in Frederick

Posted on Wednesday, 10 January 2007 by David Gorsline

Saturday I rode up with Ted and his team to tech in our shows at the Cultural Arts Center of Frederick County. (The Maryland one act festival performances will be there this weekend.) The Center is lightly converted from a … Continue reading →

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Paging Mr. Bernard Herrmann

Posted on Wednesday, 10 January 2007 by David Gorsline

Via Arts & Letters Daily, new book by Jack Sullivan catalogs all the music in the films of Alfred Hitchcock. The 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much uses Arthur Benjamin’s Storm Clouds cantata, which was commissioned for … Continue reading →

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Karmic drawdowns: 1

Posted on Friday, 5 January 2007 by David Gorsline

I was late for a meeting, but I really needed a cup of hot tea to ease my throat. (Holiday crowds. Flu.) I put the cup in the Keurig machine and pushed the Brew button and the dreaded red light … Continue reading →

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Security flaw in Adobe plug-in

Posted on Friday, 5 January 2007 by David Gorsline

News of a significant security vulnerability in earlier versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat has come to light. The vulnerability exists in nearly any browser with the Acrobat Reader plug-in installed and allows malicious Javascript code to be injected on … Continue reading →

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Sing out, Louise

Posted on Thursday, 4 January 2007 by David Gorsline

Andrew Lloyd Webber wrings his hands over an impending auction of wireless spectrum, according to a story reported by Stephen Beard. If a cell phone company were to win the bidding, … he warns the sound in the seven West … Continue reading →

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