So I leave for Europe in less than two weeks, and I think I'm on track. I do have a list a mile long of things to think about, but they are getting picked off one by one. I worry about packing, although I've gotten pretty good at it - I don't pack light, and …
Oh, yeah, summer
We've had cool summers before, and it hasn't really gotten that hot yet - but once we crossed that summer-line, it's been muggy as fuck. I put it off for a while, but yesterday I installed the two portable air conditioners. It's pretty easy, although I should probably get some more foam to plug up …
But enough about me
It's Pride Sunday here in NYC (we are big enough to have several Prides, but today is the big one in Manhattan). I was looking forward to actually going, but I still look a fright from my fall last week. I'm not in pain at all, unless you for some reason decide to squeeze the …
Happy Pride Month!
This was my view when I drafted this: Port Jefferson I’d forgotten I had Juneteenth off, so booked a quick Sunday overnight trip to Port Jefferson, on the Long Island sound - and I just got home. More on that later. So.. May was a whirlwind, June less so, but a lot to ketchup on. …
A year
Christamighty, I'm behind, and this is very obviously the next post to write, and I just ... well, I don't have a plan. Let's see what happens. May 20th was the anniversary of Charles's death. It was a Saturday, so I'd planned a gathering for Sunday. I really wanted it to be Charles's old crew, …
Roughdigore
After being a big G&S fan throughout college and grad school, I didn't get to do much in Philadelphia. I auditioned for Savoy Company's Iolanthe once (didn't get it) and then Rose Valley's Ruddigore ('we can't offer you a role, but we loved your audition'). And then moving to New York, I was doing mostly …
Baltimore
Because I grew up in DC, went to college in Williamsburg (VA), grad school in Baltimore, and then spent my 20's in Philadelphia, the farther south I go the more (and younger) personal history I run into. I spent less than two years in Baltimore, but they were so transformative that I came out a …
Audience
Still way behind in blogging. I have a plan to get caught up, though, and much to discuss, once I get a window of time and energy. I have been to a bunch of performances lately. Mostly Gilbert & Sullivan stuff, not all. Sometimes the same show more than once. Since most of them were …
The Anxious Month of May
Whoa, I'm behind on blogging. Again, I realize that most of my blog is providing material for an Eric Peterson museum that will never exist, but it is nice to go back and see what I was up to five years ago or whatever. But I was surprised as we crossed the border into May, …
Chisago? Schmisago?
Behind on blogging, oh well, I'll do a bit of catchup at the end. Two weekends ago I took an extended weekend to go visit my niece and her family in Minnesota - flew in on Thursday, left on Monday. It happened to be Easter weekend, but was really timed to coincide with other niece's …
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