- I don’t think I’m actually going to be using this, and not least of all because I almost never use Chrome or its extensions, but this is interesting: Jailbreak the Patriarchy, an extension that gender-swaps all the pronouns. [via]
- The YA Paranormal Drinking Game [via]
- “It has come to our attention that Ayn Rand was in fact a self-serving sociopath. We regret the error.” Copies of the Atlas Shrugged DVD pulled because they (very mistakenly) called it a “timeless novel of courage and self-sacrifice” [via]
- Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel Fun Home will be a musical. That’s…interesting.
- And finally, these Paranormal United States [via]
theater
Hello, Saturday
Went into the city this evening for dinner with my parents, sister, and brother-in-law, followed by The Book of Mormon on Broadway. It was, if I remember correctly, my mother’s birthday present to my father. (His birthday was several months ago, but tickets are hard to come by.) A good time, I think, was had by all.
How to succeed in Saturday without really trying
A couple of weeks ago, my father asked my mother and me if we’d like to go see How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying on Broadway. It’s the Tony Award-winning new revival starring Daniel Radcliffe and John Larroquette, and he had an offer for discounted tickets through work. So we went, and it was terrific fun, even if it is still about a thousand and ten degrees in the city.
We had dinner downtown afterward and then came home on an early-evening train. My sister and her husband are visiting for a friend’s thirtieth birthday party, so we came home to two barking dogs (ours, my sister’s), both of whom needed to go out.
Then I watched the latest episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day. I liked this episode in that the plot seems to be developing, but I’m not really sure I liked it a lot beyond that. I really do think the move to America and expansion to ten episodes for a single, contained story is working against the show. At times, it feels like it’s trying to replicate the urgency (and success) of Children of Earth — to the point where they even recycle one of COE‘s main plot devices — but doing so with the lack of finesse (and explicit but not very titillating sex) of the show’s first season. There’s enough, still, to like about it to keep watching — and heaven knows, I’ll almost certainly keep watching to the very end — but I’m not enjoying it as much as the Torchwood miniseries before it.
That was Saturday.
Saturday in earnest
I can’t say I slept entirely well last night, and on waking my allergies seem to have stepped up their game, unfortunately. But otherwise, it was a good day. I watched the last two or three — I lost count — episodes of season two of Justified, and I read a little bit, at least until the summer sun and falling apple blossom buds annoyed me too much and I left the back deck behind.
Then this evening, I accompanied my parents into Manhattan for dinner out and a show — specifically The Importance of Being Earnest on Broadway. They were discounted tickets, with the show was sadly playing to a not very full house, and in part an excuse to go to this restaurant my father likes, and which every year sends him a birthday coupon for fifty dollars off.
The show was great, silly fun, at times maybe a bit too Oscar Wilde-ian — I couldn’t help but be reminded of this Monty Python sketch — but quite enjoyable.
And that was Saturday.
A de-lovely evening
“Anything goes in. Anything goes out. Fish, bananas, old pajamas, mutton, beef, and trout.”
Those are the lyrics to the “Anything Goes” recalled in this Monty Python sketch, though thankfully not the lyrics from the version I saw this evening, along with my parents, sister and brother-in-law. We had a lovely dinner out, followed by the show, which was great fun.