Monthly Archives: April 2007

Lafayette trip report: 2

Posted on Thursday, 26 April 2007 by David Gorsline

Tuesday morning our bus departed at 6:00 for Iberia Parish and the coastal wetland habitat of Lake Fausse (pronounced like the choreographer) Pointe State Park, followed by a visit to Avery Island, the site of a managed heron rookery (lots … Continue reading →

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Lafayette trip report: 1

Posted on Tuesday, 24 April 2007 by David Gorsline

Greetings from Lafayette, Miss., in the heart of Cajun country, where I am attending the 2007 American Birding Association convention (while Leta house sits back home). I made the drive down from Reston on Sunday and Monday, with little in … Continue reading →

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The Pillowman

Posted on Friday, 20 April 2007 by David Gorsline

“Don’t believe everything you read in the papers,” is perhaps our take-away from Martin McDonagh’s bitter-bitter black comedy of a fairy tale. It concerns Katurian (the indomitable Tom Story), a writer of bleak children’s stories (nearly all of them for … Continue reading →

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Crime and Punishment

Posted on Thursday, 19 April 2007 by David Gorsline

Campbell and Columbus strip Dostoyevsky’s novel to its bones, producing 90 minutes of strong theater that zeroes in on the question of human redemption. Using just three actors in a production that recalls RHT’s similarly minimal two-person The Turn of … Continue reading →

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Ready when you are, Miss Lamont

Posted on Thursday, 19 April 2007 by David Gorsline

Via kottke.org, David S. Cohen notes that the technological transition from film to digital video is having an unexpected effect on acting styles, one that may prove as revolutionary as the introduction of sound in the late 1920s. For actors, … Continue reading →

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Crooked CA watch: 2

Posted on Monday, 16 April 2007 by David Gorsline

Wang is wrong: a blistering report by Computer Associates’ board of directors implicates former head Charles Wang as the leader of a pervasive culture of fraud. Mr. Wang created a “culture of fear” at Computer Associates — now called CA … Continue reading →

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ESTA Festival 2007

Posted on Sunday, 15 April 2007 by David Gorsline

Leta and I ran up for the weekend to Ephrata, Pa., to the Eastern States Theatre Association Festival, Leta serving as last-minute replacement techncian for Silver Spring Stage’s entry and I serving as driver and audience member. The Stage returned … Continue reading →

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So it goes

Posted on Thursday, 12 April 2007 by David Gorsline

Kurt Vonnegut has become unstuck in time, permanently.

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Giver of breaks

Posted on Wednesday, 11 April 2007 by David Gorsline

Job Titles You Could Put in the “Occupation” Field of Your Tax Return to Exact Some Small Measure of Revenge on a Random IRS Employee by Getting an Irritating Song Stuck in His or Her Head

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Some links: 14

Posted on Wednesday, 11 April 2007 by David Gorsline

I’ve started a new blog for profession-related posts, IEFBR14. I doubt that I will devote the same posting volume to it as I do this one.

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Dirty jobs

Posted on Tuesday, 10 April 2007 by David Gorsline

Possibly the only job worse than being personal assistant to a certain local sports team heiress (so my sources tell me): scribble, scribble, scribble quotes from Charles C. Mann’s 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus: Minions collected and … Continue reading →

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Just the work

Posted on Monday, 9 April 2007 by David Gorsline

Conceptual artist Sol LeWitt has left us. From Michael Kimmelman’s obit: To the sculptor Eva Hesse, he once wrote a letter while she was living in Germany and at a point when her work was at an impasse. “Stop it … Continue reading →

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Plus plus

Posted on Monday, 9 April 2007 by David Gorsline

How did I miss this for so long? My blogger code (using an old Geek Code-style modifier): B9 d t++(+) k+ s u f i o x- e l+(-) c-

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Upgrades

Posted on Monday, 9 April 2007 by David Gorsline

Hmm. It looks like WP 2.1.x (to which I just upgraded) has hidden the linkcategories table. Come out, come out, whereever you are! My left sidebar hurts! Specifically, I’m trying to find the equivalent code for $link_cats = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT cat_id, … Continue reading →

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Howzat?

Posted on Sunday, 8 April 2007 by David Gorsline

My own moment of typographical double-think, the equivalent of Jasper Johns’s trick of stencilling names of colors onto his canvasses in paint of a different color: to look up from my copy of Against the Day, out the window of … Continue reading →

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