I'm a woman - an old woman, who was dating in the 80's! - and ever since said 80's, it's been understood among the people I knew that dating expenses should be shared. We'd either split the bill, or alternate paying for everything date by date, or I'd pay for dinner and he'd pay for the movie, or whatever worked best…
Et qui bona egerunt, ibunt in vitam aeternam: qui vero mala, in ignem aeternum.
No, no, Rifftrax has not disbanded!
It sounded more masculine than "sporty," and was more concise than "the dude who liked sports slightly more than the other guys because we ran out of qualities and no one was the funny one."
It will be the Avatar of Blobs. People will be suicidally anguished about not dying disgustingly in a 3D world, like The Blob.
(Deep sigh.)
EXPERIENCE BIJ!
Always wash your grimy Beatnik hair BEFORE massaging whipped eggs into it.
Get the tear gas.
Liopleurodon has…something to tell everyone.
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For a complete beginner, it will be easier to pick up a flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, or trombone and play actual notes than it will be to do so with oboe. But it's not impossible.
Yes, they announce rehearsal order so the musicians know when to show up and when they aren't needed.
That matches what I've observed in rehearsals with the Minnesota Orchestra and smaller orchestras made up of MNOrch and SPCO Union players at my church, although maybe it's a 15-minute break instead of 30…? I'm a singer, and we aren't unionized, so this is just observation. Mainly they go when the union steward…
I'd say it's worth borrowing to read - a good public transit companion, if nothing else. It's just not going to be something to rave about, although it could be fun to do a one-shot book club with friends and analyze why that is.
Google "Tom Ford Pendant Necklace."
Tangent about an old book mentioned here:
Was anyone else disappointed by "The Devil in the White City"? The melodrama was fine - the Mudgett story has it built in - but I wanted more facts and details, especially on the non-administrative parts of the Fair. Maybe I wanted a book-length version of Cecil Adams' column…
History Moment: the three captors of Major John Andre were John Paulding, David Williams, and Isaac Van Wart. They were rewarded with, among other things, having counties in Ohio named after them. I grew up in Van Wert, the county seat of Van Wert County, and that throwaway line about John Andre was like a little…
Not at all heartbreaking, but it still grips at the heart: The ballad of Casey McPhee.
If you came to JemCon, you could both dress as Kimber, or Stormer, or both, and enter the fanfiction contest. I'm just sayin'.