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Hare and I attended "Wicked" last night (Saturday, June 21) at the Pantages Theater,
which is a florid and gilded showcase, a fantastic forum for such extravaganzas.
We paid an enormous (for us) sum for the seventh row, fifteen seats right of center,
our 38th wedding anniversary gift to ourselves.

The anticipated story-line, the "background" of OZ's witches, had sounded intriguing,
but the plot proved muddled; and excess characters intruded (perhaps taken from the OZ books?).
It laste... read more
Sun, June 22, 2008 - 9:24 AM permalink - 1 comment
 
We've had two days of 111 degrees Fahrenheit, then a cooler 108 today, and tomorrow is expected to cool down to 103. This coming week will lower to the high 90's, so I'll look for the box of snow equipment in the garage.

I've watered all potted orchids, figs, mulberries, etc, heavily every other day; the garden has received intensive deep watering on the same basis. Despite this, the edges of some of the tomato and pepper plants (on their Western sides) actually dried and curled.

We'v... read more
Sun, June 22, 2008 - 1:07 AM permalink - 1 comment
 
I've been playing up to seven games at a time, and admiring the quick wit, whimsy, and words of creative opponents.
Wed, June 11, 2008 - 10:56 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
I learned two new words today, from "Blithe Tomato" - not Scrabulous.

Agenbite of inwit is an archaic phrase that originated as the title of a French treatise on morality. It was translated into English in 1340 by Dan Michel, a monk at Canterbury. The title (originally spelled "Ayenbite of Inwyt") means 'the remorse of conscience', literally, 'the again-biting of inner wit'. The English word agenbite is a translation of both elements of the Latin verb remordere 'to bite again', the source ... read more
Mon, June 2, 2008 - 9:02 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
I'm glad I don't have to learn English
Sun, June 1, 2008 - 8:29 AM permalink - 1 comment
 
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