Sunday, May 11, 2008

Happy Mothers' Day

ESPN.com has a great article for Mothers' Day about the impressive achievement of the women who have become mothers without giving up their athletic careers as members of the US women's soccer team.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

I Can't Believe My Ears

I'm generally up for pretty much any kind of theatre, but I considered skipping this evening's free day performance of 3 Mo' Divas at the DCPA. Initially I thought it was a musical of some sort, but then I saw that it would just be three women singing a bunch of different songs.

A lot of singing and no trace of a plot? Not usually my cup of tea, but I feel very glad that I didn't miss this show.

This was amazing three women singing everything from La Bohème to His Eye is on the Sparrow, with stuff like Defying Gravity (from Wicked, one of my favorite musicals), Summertime, and even It's Raining Men in between. I didn't recognize the majority of the songs, but even a musical imbecile like me couldn't help but appreciate the unbelievable skill that it took to weave together so many different styles of music.

Monday, May 5, 2008

Hi, I'm an ad campaign... And I'm a parody.

I find the Mac/PC ads (and television ads in general) pretty annoying, which means that I'm generally not too receptive to the massive number of parodies of them, but as someone who enjoys comics and has followed the buzz for the two big comic-book films that are coming out this summer, this one actually tickled my fancy:

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Blaaa! I am a colossal squid from the sea!

A thousand pounds of 26 foot long squidtastic awesomeness. With eyes the size of beach balls!