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finefoxyladiesAnswer: still going strong in Spring Green, WI! Went to visit my former college roommate/current grown-up friend Mary for our nearly-almost-always-annual visit to American Players Theater. We had a year or two just after graduation where I couldn't afford it; then pandemic disrupted a few years of it. It was good to be out in the woods (so far: no mosquito bites, or at least ones that are not itching/actively giving me malaria) seeing a collection of mostly silly, sometimes melancholy Chekhov short pieces. The cast was entirely core performers, folks I've been watching perform at APT for at least one decade, if not two, and they were all excellent. The broad slapstick made me reminisce about how much their outstanding production of A Flea in Her Ear made me laugh, and Nate Burger as Chekhov/the narrator reminded me of how emotionally compelling (and sex-ay) he was in Arcadia.
I did mostly okay, all things considered, during the lockdown/extra caution years of the pandemic. You know, on the pandemic spectrum of okay where I compulsively bought vinyl stickers and made neat lists of the tv series I was working my way through (lol, then four years later, I barrelled through Succession in, like, two months). But one of the biggest challenges for me was the loss of going to live theater and comedy and the movies. A combination of moving from Chicago, losing proximity to friends who would willingly or even enthusiastically attend things, and my pay cut from my heady days as the director at a "not-for-profit" with an 80M operating budget have contributed to a slower-than-I-would-have-wanted-or-predicted return to all these things. But I'm getting back into it. I'm going to see comedy twice this month--gotta give it up to Acme: they book a lot of my faves, as well as David Wain and Ken Marino's cover band.
Visited my fave stationary store, Anthology, while I was in Madison. Managed to exit with a reasonable amount of cards/stickers. I wish I could roll around in Anthology like a field of clover. Maybe some day I'll open a stationary store with my pandemic stickers as start-up stock.
In other news: still thinking about the OFMD S2 teaser quite a bit. Wondering when the full 2+ min trailer will be up. I'm going to be a little adrift here the next month since Reservation Dogs is wrapping, What We Do in the Shadows already closed up, and Only Murders and The Afterparty are fast on their way to concluding. Oh, if only I'd saved Succession! Heh, maybe I'll rewatch The Bear from the beginning. Or... uh, rewatch OFMD from the beginning.
I did mostly okay, all things considered, during the lockdown/extra caution years of the pandemic. You know, on the pandemic spectrum of okay where I compulsively bought vinyl stickers and made neat lists of the tv series I was working my way through (lol, then four years later, I barrelled through Succession in, like, two months). But one of the biggest challenges for me was the loss of going to live theater and comedy and the movies. A combination of moving from Chicago, losing proximity to friends who would willingly or even enthusiastically attend things, and my pay cut from my heady days as the director at a "not-for-profit" with an 80M operating budget have contributed to a slower-than-I-would-have-wanted-or-predicted return to all these things. But I'm getting back into it. I'm going to see comedy twice this month--gotta give it up to Acme: they book a lot of my faves, as well as David Wain and Ken Marino's cover band.
Visited my fave stationary store, Anthology, while I was in Madison. Managed to exit with a reasonable amount of cards/stickers. I wish I could roll around in Anthology like a field of clover. Maybe some day I'll open a stationary store with my pandemic stickers as start-up stock.
In other news: still thinking about the OFMD S2 teaser quite a bit. Wondering when the full 2+ min trailer will be up. I'm going to be a little adrift here the next month since Reservation Dogs is wrapping, What We Do in the Shadows already closed up, and Only Murders and The Afterparty are fast on their way to concluding. Oh, if only I'd saved Succession! Heh, maybe I'll rewatch The Bear from the beginning. Or... uh, rewatch OFMD from the beginning.
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Date: 2023-09-07 12:38 pm (UTC)