Last week, my lost week of the bashed up face, I really didn’t cook too much. On Monday, my face was too sore – I had cereal and ice cream for all my meals. I’d been planning for awhile to make Jane and Michael Stern’s broccoli casserole, that I got out of the Splendid Table‘s … [Read more…]
Last Sunday at the WI Film fest, one week and a lifetime away, or at least a half a lifetime. We had fried eggs and toast (potato rolls and the last sesame bagel) and bacon for breakfast, then I biked off to do my first partial shift at Sundance. Basically I was there to get … [Read more…]
Between last Friday and today, Monday, I went to three different types of events, all with their own brand of ceremony and customs: a memorial service, a museum gala, and a piano recital. The memorial was for a prominent and popular University professor, Jim Baughman. He taught for us at the library school a few … [Read more…]
Or I feel like one, anyways. Thursday, the night of the first Bowie tribute in NYC, I came home from work feeling too lazy to cook dinner, and ate Chinese leftovers, and if the time stamp on the picture is anywhere near close, before 6:00 PM – so Midwest/small town. On Friday, the day of … [Read more…]
And beer. Oh to be in NYC, watching Robyn & others perform Bowie – although I guess it’s all totally sold out. So much so, that they’ve added a second night at Radio City, that I can watch livestreamed, but no Robyn. I’ve been to Radio City – we saw a double feature of the … [Read more…]
The weather Thursday was awful – rainy, icey, dark, a little bit of snow. And of course my timing was off – I planned to go in to work on Thursday, because I had a couple of meetings, and work at home Friday – so I had to go out in it. I started off … [Read more…]
Last night we went to see Jeremy Denk play Bartok with the CSO, with a guest conductor, Sir Mark Elder. And gosh, the program was all full of nice stuff about Denk; how he got a MacArthur genius grant, and writes for the New Yorker and lots of other publications, and how his blog is … [Read more…]
We went to Milwaukee to see Bruce Springsteen last night. Way up in nosebleed territory in the basketball arena, along with 20,000 other middle-aged to elderly fans. It was kind of fun, but stadium shows are not really my thing. It’s The River tour – so Bruce & the E-Street band perform the record, and … [Read more…]