Why I'm a Railfan
While some of the people in this Times article clearly have a passion for rail travel that far eclipses mine—at the very least, many of them have an enthusiasm for documenting trains that I understand but don't share—I would still say that I qualify

Recent Theater
For some reason, I had envisioned writing many blog posts in October... why I expected this, I have no idea. Sure, I went part-time at my day job (at least for the first two weeks of October; after that, we had a big job come in that kept me there pretty much all day during the last two weeks). And Peculiar Works was not technically in production this month (there's the master class we teach for Trinity/LaMaMa, of course, and the ghost tours we helped organize and cast for the Merchant's House Museum—but those don't really count). And, yes, I had rewriting to

Malheureux Vélib' !*
In general, I'm a big fan of bicycles—unlike cars, they're economical, they emit no noxious odors or gasses, parking them takes almost no space and they're a great form of exercise. Catherine and I had a brief visit with friends staying on Fire Island this summer where the only means of t

When Facts and Numbers Collide
Apparently, an accounting firm hired by a lobbying firm issued a report on the Senate's Health Reform bill that said exactly what the industry that the lobbying firm represents wanted the report to say. Then afterward, when other people began to look at those numbers and say, "Hey, wait a minute...", the accounting firm had to make a big ol' public statement so that everyone would know they had opted not to pursue any of the annoying little math problems

The [Redacted] Word of God
I suppose it says something about me that I remembered this story as being Stephen's "The Craziest F***ing Thing I've Ever Heard" segment until I looked it up. The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cTip/Wag - Conservapedia, Louvre & Honda Unicycle