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Deer
Hamlet
Our 1st Friday Party went well, and we went to bed around 4:00 in the morning. My brother Karl called around then, twice from Taiwan, to let me know he and his kids (students) had created fire the old fashioned way, using the fire bow and spindle method. The next day Gina woke up around 8:00 in the morning to find out that her craft sale was postponed because of rain. We both stayed up, though, and cleaned up a little of the party's wreckage. I also set myself to the task of cutting and storing deer meat. Later that evening we went with Rich and Izolda to see Kevin play Hamlet in Willy Shakespeare's Hamlet. Gina ran two video cameras; I helped a little too. I liked the way Hamlet's mom was portrayed. In the last scene she says her lines in such a way that tells the audience she knows she's drinking the poison. Cool. The sets and costumes mixed many ages, from Shakespeare's time to ours. Kevin did a wonderful job, but the acoustics in that place (old Baltimore warehouse basement) didn't help carry his voice well. I loved his Yorick speech, though. On Sunday Gina sold pottery at the craft sale outside of the New Deal Café. Inside the café, an anonymous art installation began its first week of Shock and Awe. Anon had plastered the walls with many pictures of George Bush, faces covered with anti-war and anti-Bush slogans. I should take pictures before some crazy repub burns the place down. Update: Here they are:     On Monday night Gina and I watched some Mr. Show (season four) episodes with Kory. That show didn't last long enough, dammit. On Tuesday while walking back from lunch with my boss, I found three different kinds of mushrumps, all edible, mostly right around the building where I work. Later that afternnoon I met (at various times) Gina, Dad, Catherine, Rich, and Petra at the Beijing restaurant for dinner. Petra likes Head! The Monkees' movie, that is... She's the only other person I know who would put it in her top ten list. Which reminds me: at First Friday I discovered Janet likes Dhalgren! Today I ran in the GSFC 2-mile Fun Run. Last time I ran it in about 20 minutes, so this time I was trying to beat 19. I surprised myself ran it in under 17 minutes! 16:20 I think. That was much faster than I expected, so next time I'm in trouble. It's a very hilly course. |
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