Thank you for the good wishes, everyone. No real update yet except that she's being moved from a small hospital in Western Mass to Mass General tonight. I hope to the gods that means she'll be under the care of a great medical team who can see the whole scope of her illness and figure out what the hell is going on.

WindSparrow, all good thoughts to you and Daniel too.

So much love and health~ma to Kate & her mom, Daniel & WindSparrow, and Epic.

Continued quick recovery wishes for Daniel and hope they figure out quickly what’s happening with your Mon, Kate.

I took my friend Jes to a vampire themed cabaret on Friday night for her birthday.

The creator/performer, Kat Robichaud, had never seen Buffy before last March and then binged the entire series (plus Angel) and became obsessed with Spike. So she spent the second half of the show in gorgeous Spike drag, singing his songs from the musical and even reciting the Love's Bitch speech.

But plenty of other acts were included, like the stripper, Satanica Pandemonium, from Dusk to Dawn. And a truly spectacular aerial act with a woman drag king doing Nandor from What We Do In The Shadows.

Let me just list that again for dramatic effect:

Drag King
Nandor
Aerial Act

They also managed to reference just about every imaginable 80/90s vampire rock song and goth adjacent things like Siouxsie's Spellbound and NIN's Head like a whole and Rasputina's Transylvania Concubine.

Kat always writes two new original songs for every show, including this banger.

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After the show, Jes and I went to our favorite tiki bar, Zombie Village and had a good, serious talk. Which went so long that her car was trapped when the parking garage was locked up for the night so we had to hoof it and Lyft to get home at like 1:30am.

The next day I met Jes to go collect her car (I had the parking garage ticket and had offered to pay). We wanted lunch/brunch but all of our usual spots had long lines, but we discovered a new French bistro/Viennoiserie and it was lovely and calm and the music was great and food fantastic.

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Check out their Le Classique Tea Service: [link]

So what had started as a fix-your-fuck-up task of car collection turned into a bonus Fancy Brunch. Best Croque Monsieur I ever had.

Then, stuffed with carbs and chocolate I came home and napped for a shamefully long time, waking to make Matilda dinner (a curried chicken soup with turkey meatballs and fusilli).

After eating I complained to Matilda that she'd been insufficiently supporting the effort to watch Halloween movies and she said she was game. So we watched Near Dark, which is just as beautiful and cool as ever.

JZ was off at RenFaire all weekend scolding people and feeling completely recharged to have a theater/live activity that has really been energizing and fun and restorative for her.

So that was a pretty good weekend, really.

And a truly spectacular aerial act with a woman drag king doing Nandor from What We Do In The Shadows.

Yes friends, I gasped.

Sounds like fun times!!

I just cooked up my last blue apron recipe for this week. And I can’t tell if my sense of smell is off, if pork usually smells that way and I just don’t normally suspiciously sniff pork, or if it’s bad. I’m leaning towards “bad” but that super sucks because now I have potatoes and peppers but no protein.

because now I have potatoes and peppers but no protein.

This is why I keep a bag of TJ's turkey meatballs in the freezer. Which I needed to deploy with Matilda's soup because the roasted chicken had gone off.

Thank christ, Boris Johnson dropped out of the prime minister hullabaloo.

This is why I keep a bag of TJ's turkey meatballs in the freezer.

I always have a few types of frozen protein, because it's really easy to come up with a carb-based dinner for Tim The Vegetarian, but I need protein with my dinners.

Timelies all!

Mr. S's school had a Harvest Festival at a petting zoo/pumpkin patch about 30 minutes from here. He seemed to have a lot of fun running around with his classmates. So of course he had a meltdown on the way home. Sigh..