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Birthday Tour: Success

I really wasn’t joking when I said that I was going on tour.
The Accidental Birthday Tour – 2009
10/29-11/2: Chicago
11/3: Birthday
11/4: Actual birthday celebration
11/5: Bruins-Habs
11/6: John Krasinski
11/7: Vermont, Guster’s 10th anniversary “Lost and Gone Forever” show
11/8: Vermont
It was precisely what I said it would be: eleven days, three states.
And one absolutely exhausted gal.

My Dear John Letter, Part 1

Dear John Krasinski,
Stay tuned. I’m taking the weekend to travel to Vermont, conclude the ABT and see friends and Guster because life can be awesome sometimes process “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men,” which I took in at your screening on Friday night.
But come Monday? I’m going to have some questions for you. And by “some,” [...]

The Accidental Birthday Tour

Eleven days.
Three states.
One accidental extended birthday celebration.
It all kicks off tomorrow.
 

Fisking It

I grew up in a small town in Vermont, where it was easy to think of yourself as a big fish in a small pond and daydream about what it would be like to break out and test out some new waters. For me, that destination was Boston. It always had been. Boston was home.
Anyone [...]

A Wild Rumpus

Thoughts on Where the Wild Things Are, which I took in at the Somerville Theater while the snow came down and as the Patriots reveled in trouncing the Titans:
Lovely, warm, comfortable, comforting, distressing, emotionally draining, disjointed, logical, sweet and prickly.
And it made me cry.