Home Ownership

We now own a house.  We are moving into the house on Friday.  We already have a plumber coming, and are scheduling an electrician and a locksmith to come, we need a fridge, a dryer, maybe a dishwasher, and our furnace could go at any moment.  So, we’ve got quite a long list of needed fixes already, but it will be totally worth it.  Here’s a picture of our new living room:

 

And this is the back yard (the building on the left behind the fence is the grocery store):

I like to drink it at breakfast…

A very fun and interesting article on the perils and joys of prosecco’s growing popularity.  I must confess I prefer it to Champagne because I can drink more of it without feeling like I’ve been smacked in the back of the head (which is how I feel after I  drink two glasses of champagne).  I aim to drink some prosecco tomorrow night when I’m out for New Year’s, and my new sumer Saturday tradition is to have a glass with brunch out on Wayzata Bay.  Northern Italy: I am doing my part.

Samuel Huntington

I just wanted to note the passing of political scientist Samuel P. Huntington.  Read about it here.

The Open Eye Holiday Pageant

I went to the Open Eye Figure Theater’s The Holiday Pageant by Michael Sommers.  It was really fantastic.  The fact that weather.com says that Minneapolis “Feels like -22″ is less fantastic.  

The Holiday Pageant is the story of Christmas told from the point of view of Lucifer and his lowest minion.  The Angel Gabriel is like Silent Bob with a trumpet.  God is played by a tuba, and he speaks a if he is Charlie Brown’s teacher.  We see a Lucifer outraged by a humanity that is so adrift that they have become incorruptible out of complete moral indifference.  Cookies are handed out before the performance, puppets are employed brilliantly alongside human actors, and many of the performers do double duty in the pit playing either brass or strings.  Much of the dialogue is in iambic, old man Winter introduces the play as if we are about to see Henry V, and as humorous and engaging as the play is, it also tells us a wonderful Christmas tale in which the miracle of Christmas is that the miracle of Christmas delights both God and Lucifer, for it means that there is once again everything to play for in the hearts of man.  Cheerily, the play suggests the hopeful outcome.

Back

Wasn’t feeling well.  Am now feeling better.  Back to writing (of many different stripes, but definitely including blogging).