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Last night's treat was Superior Donuts, a new play by Tracy Letts, who wrote last year's run-away hit, August: Osage County--which I loved, loved, loved.

Letts is an old-fashioned playwright. His plays (these two, anyway) have the stately inevitability of Greek tragedy. Once the situation's been set up, the denouement is more or less expected. The wonder and suspense is in how it unfolds.

The cast list pretty much implies the plot. There's Arthur, a middle-aged guy (who looks extremely familiar to anyone who hangs around, as we do, with old folkies and SF fans and artisans) who runs the uptown Chicago donut shop his immigrant Polish father founded 60 years back. As far as the play is concerned, his only customers are a crazy lady who divides her time between AA meetings and the local bar, two cops, and the owner of the Russian DVD store next door, who wants to buy his donut shop and expand. The other characters are Franco, a young black guy who has dropped out of school to earn money to pay the gambling debt he owes to the local tough bookie, the bookie, his enforcer, and the Russian's laconic cousin Kiril.

So, yeah. Franco talks Arthur into hiring him, mops floors, learns to make donuts, points out that the lady cop has a thing for him, brings him out of the self-imposed isolation begun when he fled the draft in 1968 and smoked pot in Vancouver while his friends fought and were killed in Vietnam. And yeah, he runs afoul of the bookie and Arthur bails him out and there's a heartwarming scene at the end where it's clear that they've actually saved each other.

But it's a lot more complicated than that. This is a play about generations, about how weird the 2000's are for children of the 60's, how your past can color your present even when you don't think you even have anything to get over, how art can keep you sane--whether it's writing novels or going to Star Trek conventions. It's about class and race and being an immigrant and being a native. And this production is extremely well acted.

So I guess I loved, loved, loved this one, too.

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Crappy youtube version of the Canadian promo for Sectionals:


And a sneak peek in which Brittany makes me love her more, which sadly can't be embedded.

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I especially love the last part.

At last, it can be told!!!

deliasherman & I will be the (no longer)-SuperSecret Guests at this year's Georgia Filk Convention in Atlanta, Jan. 8-10, 2010!

Are you going? Have you been? What's it like?

Kourtney blogs,
"Scott and I look forward to our doctor’s appointments every time! Here we are heading out of our appointment last week and then off to lunch! It’s usually our routine to eat together when we go. This time we had a yummy meal at Nate N’Als, which is a deli that I have been going to literally since I was born. The same waitress, Gloria, is still there and remembers Kim and I coming in there with matching dresses and bows in our hair…she said my mom always dressed us matching perfectly. If you have seen any of our childhood pics on Kim’s blog, you know this is true!

It’s pretty weird walking out of the doctor’s office with a bunch of paparazzi and video guys standing there, so we look a little caught off guard in the pics lol.

I am wearing LNA leggings, plaid tunic from Zara, Chinese Laundry thigh high boots, Balenciaga bag and Dita sunglasses."
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Last Tuesday, I ordered standard boxes* from chain BigBoxStore. We need ten of them. I paid for ten of them. It took a bit of phoning different BBS's to find what I needed. In the end one store had five and was going to do the tour to make up the other five. Due to Thanksgiving, the person I spoke to said that we weren't going to get our boxes until Monday. Which, theoretically, worked out great as no one was going to be on the Stage until Monday.

By noon, no boxes, so I called BBS, due to the holiday everything had been delayed and I'd take delivery either end of the day.

Around 6pm, a driver showed up with my cabinets. Gleefully I skipped to the area only to discover he only had five of them. Before I agreed to sign for the five I had on property, I called BBS to make sure that the other five were going to be coming. I was assured that they'd be arriving between eight and ten the next morning.

I signed on the dotted line, and foisted the boxes off on my painters to do their thing.

Noon, take a wild guess. I called BBS, who told me that they didn't have any more cabinets on premises, nor was it store policy to drive to other stores to get orders. An hour or so on the phone, and the manager agreed that as my card had been charged for well over $1,000.00, that five I had were unreturnable due to being painted to match our set, AND that I'd called BBS to make sure that the last five boxes were coming it was his problem to solve and not mine.

Wednesday, look, still only five boxes. I'm on the phone again with my new frienamy at BBS. He promises me that there was a truck out trolling the other BBS gathering the rest of my order. By two the last five had arrived.

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Tonight, I'm going to FriendS's house to watch SG1, season six eps, and decorate her house for Christmas. Saturday roomieC and I are going to geek out and gorge on food from a local burger joint - fake cow for me. Sunday jessbug58 aka MinionJ will come over for pizza and either Buffy or Farscape geek time.

Synopsis:
Betty, Matt and Amanda's love triangle in the Bahamas reaches boiling point. Betty has trouble with a photo shoot when Penelope Graybridge steals the shoot from her enemy Wilhemina. Marc falls for super sexy Troy.

Sadly, MVJHL Bake Sale v3 hates me. I would love to swap for something else foodie. Or Hellion v2.

Anyone?
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An explosion in a nightclub in the Russian city of Perm leaves at least 90 people dead and many more injured, officials say.