Interesting Headlines I Can't Really Read
liberation.fr: Agnès Varda sur la route des OscarsI include this not because it's funny but because Catherine and I really loved this film, Les Plages d'Agnés (The Beaches of Agnés). It was the first of her films we'd seen although, completely coincidentally, we'd just seen The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Europe Becomes More Fabulous
My friend, Modern Fabulousity, leaves Monday on a European adventure, with stops in London, Bulgaria and Romania. It's a swift trip—he's in Bulgaria and Romania for just a few days on theater business* and he's got a scant 24 hours in London. I'm selfishly hoping that he won't tucker himself out every day so that he can share with us some

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