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Brian Bilbrey July 11, 2023

11 July 2023

First, some context: From The Washington Post: Theater is in freefall, and the pandemic isn't the only thing to blame. I place this in light of the woes that the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is going through, as mentioned in that article. And indeed, it's not just the pandemic. For OSF, it was the Almeda Fire of 2020, and it was the smoke filled skies in the Pacific Northwest last year that cancelled so many outdoor performances on the Elizabethan Stage. It was the cracked main load beam in the Angus Bowmar a decade ago that had that venue closed for…

Brian Bilbrey March 3, 2020

3 March 2020

Enough said. Marcia's cataract surgery went off without a hitch, and she is really happy with both her current improved vision and the progress she's making. It's frustrating that she has to sleep with a pirate patch each night, and endure a month of eyedrops, but all realize that compared to progressively worsening functional blindness in one eye, she's a winner. We got out and about this weekend, heading over to Ram's Head On Stage, over in Annapolis, for a lovely matinee show with Zoë Keating. Zoë's music is a joy! We saw her last at the same venue a…

Brian Bilbrey February 5, 2020

5 February 2020

So, we've had a week that was somewhere between t-shirt and sweatshirt weather. Very weird for late January into early February. This is normally the core of snow season here just south of the Mason-Dixon line. But we've only been graced with a pittance of the white fluffy stuff so far this year. Upside - no shoveling yet. Downside - I might have to start doing outside spring work much, much earlier than I expected. I've been reading ... mostly Clarkesworld Magazine, and Neil's related project, Forever Magazine. (Yes, yes ... not HTTPS, I have to get on Neil's case…

Brian Bilbrey November 24, 2019

24 November 2019

After shopping and cleaning house today, we had wonderful home-made pizza AND watched Chicken Run. Now, instead of being able to concentrate on the world-shaking revelations that were to appear in this space, all I can do is type sentences that run on and on without any appearance of termination in sight, if indeed such sentences as typed could be said to have visual acuity of any sort at all. Nearly every damn political story I read. Disturbing. Politest word I can think of in the circumstances. I've got nothing else to say on the subject at this time. Warren.

Brian Bilbrey October 14, 2019

14 October 2019

Yup, like it or not, the questionable "discovery" of the "new world" by Columbus is still a Federal holiday here in the land where some are free, and some are brave. Since my employer follows that holiday schedule, I was off work today. Yay? Certainly, especially since I didn't have to travel to Columbus, Ohio, to celebrate. Don't get me wrong - I'm in Columbus a couple of times a year for work, and enjoy the friendly people and good food a LOT! But it's a long drive, and I do have to be in the office bright and early…