Monthly Archives: January 2008

In medias craze

Posted on Saturday, 26 January 2008 by David Gorsline

Sarah Boxer reviews the current crop of books about blogs for The New York Review of Books. I find it a little odd that she finds it necessary to explain emoticons to NYRB readers, but no matter. Boxer is most … Continue reading →

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Better boarding

Posted on Saturday, 26 January 2008 by David Gorsline

One more thing to look out for in the park: a weathered sheet of plywood lying on the ground might be a snake board, sheltering small mammals and the herps who eat them, reports the Winter 2008 number of the … Continue reading →

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A charge to keep

Posted on Saturday, 26 January 2008 by David Gorsline

Via kottke.org: Sometimes they just write themselves. As blogged by Scott Horton, George Bush’s favored painting, which to him looks like a Methodist evangelist riding into country to spread the good word, was originally made by W.H.D. Koerner to illustrate … Continue reading →

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Some links: 21

Posted on Thursday, 24 January 2008 by David Gorsline

Malkom Boothroyd and his parents are on a biking and birding big year: they set out from the Yukon Territory last June. By December, they had travelled 6,000 fossil-free miles and had twitched 374 species. They’re in Florida now.

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No Mets fans

Posted on Wednesday, 23 January 2008 by David Gorsline

Via The Morning News, a Guide to the New York City Subway by Streeter Seidell, White Guy.

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Good on ya: 3

Posted on Tuesday, 22 January 2008 by David Gorsline

Three of my projects from last year have been honored with nominations for outstanding achievement from WATCH: Seussical, Never the Sinner, and Guys and Dolls. I was especially pleased to see the directing and technical work on Sinner receive its … Continue reading →

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One year and counting down

Posted on Sunday, 20 January 2008 by David Gorsline

A new administration will be sworn in on 20 January 2009.

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A clean, well-lighted place

Posted on Tuesday, 15 January 2008 by David Gorsline

Check out the spiffy new tile and furniture (at right) in the main men’s room at Silver Spring Stage. Renovations were completed to the men’s and ladies’ rooms just in time for the opening of Seascape. The best thing about … Continue reading →

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Another friend gone

Posted on Friday, 11 January 2008 by David Gorsline

This always happens when I check back with a morning news source later in the day: bad news. Sommer Mathis of DCist links to a column by Hank Stuever about the closing of the last of D.C.’s crackerbox art movie … Continue reading →

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Egregious muzak: 1

Posted on Wednesday, 9 January 2008 by David Gorsline

It’s been a while since I heard something piped in that made me say, “Aww, why did they have to do that to that song?” But there I was, walking into the Reston Chick-Fil-A this evening, and as I stood … Continue reading →

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Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

Posted on Sunday, 6 January 2008 by David Gorsline

Chicago’s performance collective, The Neo-Futurists, returns to the Woolly stage with its 19-year-running Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, a post-modern amalgam of mime, politics, sketch comedy, audience participation, depredations of food, and general “what the hell was … Continue reading →

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Cool, not cool

Posted on Sunday, 6 January 2008 by David Gorsline

Paul Conley (thanks, J Luc!) has produced a fine profile for NPR of the wistful alto, the “swinging introvert,” saxophonist Paul Desmond. Desmond wrote “Take Five,” which appeared on the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s phenomenally popular Time Out, the jazz record … Continue reading →

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Good things

Posted on Thursday, 3 January 2008 by David Gorsline

Gloria liked rules, rules were Good Things. Gloria liked rules that said you couldn’t speed or park on double-yellow lines, rules that told you not to drop litter or deface buildings. She was sick and tired of hearing people complain … Continue reading →

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Rana temporaria

Posted on Thursday, 3 January 2008 by David Gorsline

Via Boing Boing: Perhaps this Modern Mechanix article (by S. L. Schutt, May, 1934) on raising frogs in the backyard inspired the delightful monologue Chug, by Ken Jenkins. The advantage of frog farming is the fact that you can start … Continue reading →

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Adding it up

Posted on Wednesday, 2 January 2008 by David Gorsline

I hope to be able shortly to post in a little more depth about New Jersey’s Natural Capital valuation project, which was reported on by Janet Babin today for Marketplace. Since the days of Soviet command economies and the joke … Continue reading →

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