Terry Pratchett's "Nation"

Just finished it. Really good book. While reading it, I LOL'd in places, cried in others, and thought a whole bunch. I'm guessing that you'll have read (and liked) it already, heron61, but if not, I highly recommend it to you...and to most everyone else likely to read this mini-review.

Holiday Show Prep

Starting to get bouncy, peppy, happy 'bout my upcoming week in SoCal. Nearly done w/prep work for this year's Troubie's holiday show. A few weeks back I turned jaylake & the_child onto the movie A Christmas Story. This past weekend I had the good fortune to snag the final seat available for a fine stage production of West Side Story in downtown Portland. Still want to see Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (yes, the DiCaprio/Danes version) sometime in the next several days. Anybody interested in joining me?

All this is so I can more fully appreciate and enjoy the Troubadour Theater Company's holiday show this Saturday night: A Christmas West Side Story. Whee!

I've seen many of the Troubies more standard mash-ups of Shakespeare 'n' pop music (such as Fleetwood MacBeth, Twelfth Dog Night, As U2 Like It, A Midsummer's Saturday Night Fever Dream, Romeo Hall & Juliet Oates, and A Wither's Tale - and more), as well as a mess of their holiday shows, including It's A Stevie Wonderful Life, Little Drummer Bowie, A Charlie James Brown X-mas, Frosty the Snow Manilow, and The First Joel. Always fun, always wacky. One thing to keep in mind: DON'T BE LATE!