2018 resolution: Spend more money on booze, women, and movies!
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I like that resolution.
I would try that too, but I'm starting to think that some kinds of booze are migraine triggers. I haven't wanted to experiment too much, but I'm currently leery of red wine, beer, and whiskey :( and seem to be okay with white wine and tequila.
I have been wanting to see more movies.
Does it count if I'm the woman I'm spending it on?
I vote yes.
Today at work I was asked (along with about 40 office staff) to essentially improve a rowdy town hall scene. We were even assigned to be either for or against the speaker. That may be the most absurd thing I've ever known of a director to do in preparation for a design meeting.
Are you to express your assigned partisan feeling via light design?
I am confused.
I'm starting to think that some kinds of booze are migraine triggers.
Ugh, right there with you.
I think he was using the staff in real space instead of moving little people and chairs around on the model. We were merely bodies. It seemed like he was trying to figure out staging for a scene, probably for scenic and costume reasons. I'm sure this was a time saver for him, but not so efficient for the organization as a whole. The part I didn't understand was why the improv was necessary. We went through 3 topics in our improv. The first was a riff on "booze, women, and movies", the second involved the speaker's Chicago born & raised children's obligation to like hot dogs, and the third was mostly just complaining about the CTA red line.
Huh.
Looking at fire and evacuation maps is unsettling, to understate. Hoping for a turn in the weather that involves winds dying and maybe some rain. The firefighters, the residents, the animals, ugh, my heart goes out to all.