A Birthday, Cows, Tires, Nametags, Mr. Blue, and The Full Monty
Not much going on lately, but plenty of it. So buckle up, pop some corn and settle in.
Went to Lori's Grandma's 80th birthday party last weekend - very nice, great day, saw the whole family. Stopped in Madison for the farmer's market. It was the annual "Cows on the Concourse" day. The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board promotes this as part of Diary Month. They have some pens set up with dairy cows, some adults and some calves. It was good - walk around, see the cows, buy cheese and coffee.
Get new tires on the motorcycle later this morning. Yay!
Went to River Splash, a street festival in Milwaukee. If I was all about just standing around drinking, it would have been perfect. We were in town getting Lori's rings cleaned, dining at Coquette Cafe and checking out the Hot Rod magazine sponsored car show/rally stop at Miller Park. After the jewelers, we drove to the lake and followed it back into downtown. Saw some beautiful houses going that way. All very cool and lots of fun. We had extra time, didn't want to go home yet, so we decided to check out this festival - first timers. The actual highlight of River Splash was speaking to the picture frame vendors (there was a small area with booths with stuff for sale). They had on these cool name tags with programmable, scrolling, electronic messages on them. They also had a cool set-up for processing credit card payments. After we chatted with them for awhile, we made our way to the other side of the festival where the only act on the schedule that marginally appealed to us was going to start their show. They didn't start on time and we got bored and left before they came on. Oh, the band was Light Up, a Styx tribute band.
Ultimately, it wasn't terrible, we just weren't into the festival. I mean, I enjoyed the tunes from the Beatles tribute band. And we talked to the picture frame vendors.
Got a new PC! It's superfast. I don't even remember just how fast, but I think it can do the Kessel run in 11 parsecs. It's just that clever. When we had 1 laptop and 1 desktop, we referred to them as the "laptop" and the "PC" in order to distinguish them quickly in the course of conversations. We've taken to calling the new one "Mr. Blue", mostly because it's blue. It has nothing to do with Eddie Bunker's portrayal of Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs, but we have discussed how the film would have been different if our "Mr. Blue" had actually portrayed Mr. Blue in the movie.
Saw The Full Monty at the new Drury Lane Theater at Water Tower. I've had the Broadway cast recording for a few years now and really like that - The papers all raved about the show - especially the wise-cracking, seen-it-all, piano-playing character. Steals the show, some said. In a word, the experience was 'Ugh'. The performers all performed well, the songs were good, but the book was dreadful and I didn't care for much of the direction. Blah! I thought the wise-cracking, seen-it-all, old timer was the worst part of the show. Theater was nice, though. Go rent the original film, which is great, and give the soundtrack a listen. Stop there.
Of course, because of the show, The Full Monty CD got frequent spins in the player over the last several weeks. And that led to other Broadway shows, especially Avenue Q and Little Shop of Horrors. A couple of new (to me) bands I'm playing a lot of this week are Kaiser Chiefs and Skindred. Kaiser Chiefs's debut rocks - very cool.
Went to Lori's Grandma's 80th birthday party last weekend - very nice, great day, saw the whole family. Stopped in Madison for the farmer's market. It was the annual "Cows on the Concourse" day. The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board promotes this as part of Diary Month. They have some pens set up with dairy cows, some adults and some calves. It was good - walk around, see the cows, buy cheese and coffee.
Get new tires on the motorcycle later this morning. Yay!
Went to River Splash, a street festival in Milwaukee. If I was all about just standing around drinking, it would have been perfect. We were in town getting Lori's rings cleaned, dining at Coquette Cafe and checking out the Hot Rod magazine sponsored car show/rally stop at Miller Park. After the jewelers, we drove to the lake and followed it back into downtown. Saw some beautiful houses going that way. All very cool and lots of fun. We had extra time, didn't want to go home yet, so we decided to check out this festival - first timers. The actual highlight of River Splash was speaking to the picture frame vendors (there was a small area with booths with stuff for sale). They had on these cool name tags with programmable, scrolling, electronic messages on them. They also had a cool set-up for processing credit card payments. After we chatted with them for awhile, we made our way to the other side of the festival where the only act on the schedule that marginally appealed to us was going to start their show. They didn't start on time and we got bored and left before they came on. Oh, the band was Light Up, a Styx tribute band.
Ultimately, it wasn't terrible, we just weren't into the festival. I mean, I enjoyed the tunes from the Beatles tribute band. And we talked to the picture frame vendors.
Got a new PC! It's superfast. I don't even remember just how fast, but I think it can do the Kessel run in 11 parsecs. It's just that clever. When we had 1 laptop and 1 desktop, we referred to them as the "laptop" and the "PC" in order to distinguish them quickly in the course of conversations. We've taken to calling the new one "Mr. Blue", mostly because it's blue. It has nothing to do with Eddie Bunker's portrayal of Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs, but we have discussed how the film would have been different if our "Mr. Blue" had actually portrayed Mr. Blue in the movie.
Saw The Full Monty at the new Drury Lane Theater at Water Tower. I've had the Broadway cast recording for a few years now and really like that - The papers all raved about the show - especially the wise-cracking, seen-it-all, piano-playing character. Steals the show, some said. In a word, the experience was 'Ugh'. The performers all performed well, the songs were good, but the book was dreadful and I didn't care for much of the direction. Blah! I thought the wise-cracking, seen-it-all, old timer was the worst part of the show. Theater was nice, though. Go rent the original film, which is great, and give the soundtrack a listen. Stop there.
Of course, because of the show, The Full Monty CD got frequent spins in the player over the last several weeks. And that led to other Broadway shows, especially Avenue Q and Little Shop of Horrors. A couple of new (to me) bands I'm playing a lot of this week are Kaiser Chiefs and Skindred. Kaiser Chiefs's debut rocks - very cool.
posted by Paul at 2:40 AM
3 Comments:
So your computer is named after one of the smallest parts in the movie. Heck, his part was even smaller than Quentin's, I think.
At least it wasn't Mr. Pink.
Mr. Orange would be the nightmare 'cause he'd turn on me. At least Mr. Pink was a professional.
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