These guys (didn’t catch the group’s name) were pretty good, but not quite up to the level of play we heard in Seattle from the Irish Piper’s Club. Still, they were good and the fiddlin’ women did great on the one song we heard. This image was sent from Flickr as a blog entry, email or cameraphone image. Via: Flickr Title: photo_0029.jpg By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 17 Sep ’05, 6.00pm PST
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Okay, I’ve bloviated My Important Thoughts About Current Events enough for the week. Time I got back to basics and wrote about stuff I probably know more about – silly, mindless, entertaining drivel about my favorite things. So tonight being Friday, we’re parked in front of the TV watching Stargate, Atlantis, and then my husband David will be watching Battlestar Gallactica. Tonight for the first time, though, my geek cred goes up slightly; I’m using my “new” laptop (which is really David’s old one). Slowly I’m moving stuff over to it from my own “old” computer, like photos and other…
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So here's what's going on this week around here: Busy at work, but not as crazed as last week. Thinking about sick friends and considering how best to help Keeping only half an eye on the news Fooling around with iPod more (David got me a dock!) Putting off on uploading more photos to Flickr Getting ready to travel again Real Soon (just a weekender) Realizing that there's not a lot of time left Playing catch-up in nearly every area of my life Now that the Weekend of Crazed Running Around is over, I can finally say something about what…
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WXRT Radio Chicago – On-Air Personality Bios – Lin Brehmer On my way in this morning, I was listening to Lin Brehmer on WXRT and caught the tail end of his show. For some reason, Terri Hemmert was attempting to lure him back into the studio from the window ledge. All very funny, but there was an undercurrent of something that sounded like Management was screwing around with the talent. I have no idea if this was just silly morning schtick, or if Lin’s been let go, because I missed all but the last 5 minutes. The “bumper” song to…
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Tickets: $12.00 senior/students/advance, $15.00 at the door. Synergy’s concert at Holy Moly is today at 4pm – the musicians will arrive some hours before that and I have a few errands to run and chores to do after church. It’s going to be an exhausting but fun day, and I’m really curious to see how many people turn up after my various attempts to get the word out. I was listening to their CDs “Transmissions” and “Baroque and Renaissance” last night and was struck again at the high quality of their musicianship – it’s exciting to be able to host…
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This is Ginny’s brain, not on drugs, at the end of the work day and on the way to Holy Moly to do some emergency cleaning. As you can see, she is not a happy camper. This was the scene yesterday as I drove away (finally) from work after a long frustrating day trying to keep up with about 4 different accounts’ worth of niggling little problems, ticketing errors, questions, last-minute hotel group changes, and a couple of things that I can’t even categorize except that I now know that I had the information I so badly needed at the…
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Last night we went to see the latest offering at the Marriott Lincolnshire’s musical theater season, “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum.” I’m really glad I didn’t read the rave reviews in the Chicago Tribune or at Chicago Critic before seeing the show, because then I would have known going in just how big a triumph Guy Adkins has in his portrayal of Pseudolus, the wily and wryly funny slave of ancient Rome. I vaguely knew the story: it’s a pastiche of characters and situations lifted from classical Roman and Greek comedies, mostly from the works…
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Okay, all 5 of you readers, I’m officially starting to panic. The fundraiser concert at Holy Moly is one week from today, and I have no frickin’ idea how many people are going to show up. I’ve dropped off flyers, I’ve posted announcements on craigslist and spammed musicians whose email addresses were available on the web. Here is the gist: they’re young, they’re talented, they’re bound for musical glory. It’s just a matter of time before they “break out.” And you can see them in an intimate setting, with “bright” acoustics, with a bite of dessert and a chance to…
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Twin brothers Cameron and Damien Barrett want to make a dream come true. They want to be on 9th (or 10th) season of The Amazing Race. Only hitch in this plan no one has called them back. Yet. Being identical twins they hope they stand out from the crowd enough to get the prized spot. But, to help things progress they sent in a video, and just started up a blog about their quest. Hey, I’ll throw in with TV Squad and add my modest Google juice in a good cause. It’s one of my dreams, but these guys have…
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Amazing Race: Season 3, Episode 1 Of COURSE I’ve been catching up on the first 2 seasons of TAR, which have just been re-run on GSN. I’m so happy to finally feel the love for Kevin and Drew (TAR1 fan favorites) and Danny and Oswald (TAR2 fan favorites). Last night was the finale of the second season, which saw Chris/Alex, Tara/Wil, and Blake/Paige battle it out to the finish line in San Francisco. Incidentally, now I finally feel the hate for Taraweasel. But tonight, we’re finally cooking with gas, because it’s the premiere of the third season. My season. The…