Destination Unknown

The Old Homestead

2008-05-12T06:07:39Z

I'm visiting the town I graduated high school in, Springfield, Missouri. The place has changed, as is to be expected after being gone for several years, but not that much. Still home of Bass Pro Shops and the Assemblies of God and - it is repor...

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Restaurant: Queen of Sheba, Oklahoma City, OK

2008-05-11T02:39:33Z

Big thanks to Queen of Fractal Beauty for being our gracious host in Oklahoma City tonight and introducing Strix and I to Queen of Sheba, a terrific Ethiopian restaurant. Ethiopian is a type of cuisine that you can't get just anywhere, and Strix...

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Life QotW: Work It Out

2008-05-10T05:18:38Z

How do you stay in shape? Several ways, most notably my skeletal system, followed by the presence of skin, and on a more minute scale, the surface membrane tension of my cells. An artist's rendition of what I would look like without a skeleton....

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Travel Love and Hate

2008-05-09T04:32:12Z

Strix and I are busy packing. We're heading out of town tomorrow evening to visit family in Missouri and so Strix can attend her graduation at Missouri State. I both love and hate long drives and vacations. I love: the road eating at new resta...

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Movie: Brick

2008-05-07T17:59:19Z

This is an outstanding movie. The dialogue is quick, crisp, and intelligent, and is thoroughly rooted in the film noire, hardboiled-detective tradition. The fact that it's set in a high school seems to be incidental at first, and I thought that...

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Movie: Soylent Green

2008-05-05T03:23:40Z

Overacting, really bad stage fighting, and laughable costumes (like anything made in 1973), but you gotta love it. I borrowed this from a friend because I hadn't seen it in years and Strix had never seen it. Watching it again makes me want to re...

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Move: Backdraft

2008-04-29T04:13:54Z

Stina had never seen this, so we got it from Netflix a while back, and I'm just now getting around to blogging it. It came out in '91, and I saw it probably not to long after it first came out. It stands the test of time, and while I think it's...

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The Foreigner: Technical Problems

2008-04-26T22:05:35Z

The Foreigner has a scene in it where a guy in a Ku Klux Klan costume has to "melt" into the floor. This is done by lowering him into the floor through a trap door while his sheets stay above. The stage of the theater where TEA performs doesn't...

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Playbill Committee

2008-04-23T05:04:43Z

The theater group I've been involved in is now having weekly script readings to pick its shows for the 2009-2010 season. Yes, they pick them out a year and a half ahead. They do this because they operate partly off of a grant from Conoco-Philli...

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The Show Went On

2008-04-20T20:42:18Z

Last night was closing night. Here's one of the articles that came out opening weekend. I'm not sure how long the link will be good. There was a review Saturday that said we had them "rolling in the aisles." :-> Something I found surprising ...

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