Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Self-Promotiontron!
I don't like to brag, but Erin and I just posted a shitload of awesome stuff on SlinkyCalhoun. Most of it is themed for Valentine's Day, but not all. Look at it. Buy it. Enjoy it.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Welcome, little month!
I'm afraid I've been terribly lax in all areas blog-related lately. UH-OH! But, after getting reprimanded by someone for not updating, I'm back. Oh yes, I'm back.
Here are some interesting, semi-interesting, and uninteresting things that happened to me lately:
-I got a new job. It's at a craft store in my neighborhood, the kind of place where you can come in and make stuff off a list of established crafts. It's also got stuff for sale in the front. It's completely awesome, run by two wonderful women, and I'm loving working there. Sometimes, I sit and make crafts all day. And get paid. Two days ago, I changed a few lightbulbs, mopped the floor, and then....made a huge snowglobe containing a scene of a horse and pig kissing, walking across a bridge made of spools of thread. What?! It's great, and I'm really happy to have it.
-I got another new half-a-job. Meaning, I was subbing at my friend's babysitting job for a few weeks. In this time, I heard a four-year-old quote Seinfeld, I got bitten, and I was told "I'm going to burn you to a skeleton. And then I'm going to melt your bones." (The kid who told me this wasn't the kid I was actually sitting for. "My" kid, on hearing this threat, said "But I don't even know how to get home from here!")
-I went to Philadelphia for the first time for the Keystone Convention. It was a lot of fun, and I want to go back to Philly to get to actually see the city-- these singing things don't ever really allow for much else.
-Something I sent in to Found Magazine online a long time ago was the Find of the Day yesterday! I loved reading the ridiculous comments. Here it is. People actually did a little Google detective work and found out some cool stuff about it, which I really did enjoy reading.
-Yesterday, I got stuck in the subway with a car full of Aussie Idiotarod participants, covered in eggs, dressed like priests. Ahhh, home.
-I've been slowly working through the first season of Dexter. At first, I could barely watch it because I hated his sister on the show (now his real-life wife, UGH)....but I accepted my dislike and now I'm *really* liking it. I love rooting for someone so amoral. Last winter was when I worked through Carnivale, and though Dexter is no Carnivale, it's good to have a tv show waiting to make me stay up much later than I intend to. Though Michael C. Hall's unnaturally pink lips on occasion unnerve me.
-I passed the 1,000-friend mark on Facebook. How did that happen?
-I saw a terrific show at PS 122-- Pan Pan's "The Crumb Trail." Super weird, way more avant-garde than I can even handle, sort of, but really compelling and exciting. Pan Pan is a really hip Irish company that's been around for 16 years or so. One of the coolest/ most awkard aspects of this show was that one of the actors in it also wrote "Improbably Frequency," that musical that I'm so taken with. I was at PS 122 with one of my coworkers, who prompted me to introduce myself to the company-- I did, and sputtered out such an awkward tale of obsession to this poor man about his musical....he took it like a gentleman, but I was red in the face before it was over. "Uh, oh, yeah, I, uh--I saw your show at 59E59, but I also saw it at the Abbey, yeah, like four years ago? Is that when it was? Um, but anyway---" ad nauseum. Seeing the show made me want to go to Ireland.
-I was also casting my mind back to more British Isles theatre-- the space where we sang in Philadelphia was RIPE for a Shunt Collective-style peripatetic ghosty play. Give me money! I will do cool things, New York!
It's clear that I've moved solidly into the "uninteresting" category here, so I'll stop. But let's hope I'm better about writing in February.
Here are some interesting, semi-interesting, and uninteresting things that happened to me lately:
-I got a new job. It's at a craft store in my neighborhood, the kind of place where you can come in and make stuff off a list of established crafts. It's also got stuff for sale in the front. It's completely awesome, run by two wonderful women, and I'm loving working there. Sometimes, I sit and make crafts all day. And get paid. Two days ago, I changed a few lightbulbs, mopped the floor, and then....made a huge snowglobe containing a scene of a horse and pig kissing, walking across a bridge made of spools of thread. What?! It's great, and I'm really happy to have it.
-I got another new half-a-job. Meaning, I was subbing at my friend's babysitting job for a few weeks. In this time, I heard a four-year-old quote Seinfeld, I got bitten, and I was told "I'm going to burn you to a skeleton. And then I'm going to melt your bones." (The kid who told me this wasn't the kid I was actually sitting for. "My" kid, on hearing this threat, said "But I don't even know how to get home from here!")
-I went to Philadelphia for the first time for the Keystone Convention. It was a lot of fun, and I want to go back to Philly to get to actually see the city-- these singing things don't ever really allow for much else.
-Something I sent in to Found Magazine online a long time ago was the Find of the Day yesterday! I loved reading the ridiculous comments. Here it is. People actually did a little Google detective work and found out some cool stuff about it, which I really did enjoy reading.
-Yesterday, I got stuck in the subway with a car full of Aussie Idiotarod participants, covered in eggs, dressed like priests. Ahhh, home.
-I've been slowly working through the first season of Dexter. At first, I could barely watch it because I hated his sister on the show (now his real-life wife, UGH)....but I accepted my dislike and now I'm *really* liking it. I love rooting for someone so amoral. Last winter was when I worked through Carnivale, and though Dexter is no Carnivale, it's good to have a tv show waiting to make me stay up much later than I intend to. Though Michael C. Hall's unnaturally pink lips on occasion unnerve me.
-I passed the 1,000-friend mark on Facebook. How did that happen?
-I saw a terrific show at PS 122-- Pan Pan's "The Crumb Trail." Super weird, way more avant-garde than I can even handle, sort of, but really compelling and exciting. Pan Pan is a really hip Irish company that's been around for 16 years or so. One of the coolest/ most awkard aspects of this show was that one of the actors in it also wrote "Improbably Frequency," that musical that I'm so taken with. I was at PS 122 with one of my coworkers, who prompted me to introduce myself to the company-- I did, and sputtered out such an awkward tale of obsession to this poor man about his musical....he took it like a gentleman, but I was red in the face before it was over. "Uh, oh, yeah, I, uh--I saw your show at 59E59, but I also saw it at the Abbey, yeah, like four years ago? Is that when it was? Um, but anyway---" ad nauseum. Seeing the show made me want to go to Ireland.
-I was also casting my mind back to more British Isles theatre-- the space where we sang in Philadelphia was RIPE for a Shunt Collective-style peripatetic ghosty play. Give me money! I will do cool things, New York!
It's clear that I've moved solidly into the "uninteresting" category here, so I'll stop. But let's hope I'm better about writing in February.
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