Hands off bitches
Once in a Blue Moose
Today, we celebrated finishing our taxes on time with a late lunch at the newly relocated Blue Moose Bistro.
When we got in, there were a couple of other tables just finishing up, but shortly it was down to just us and a single gentleman sitting in the window. It turned out he was pretty crazy, and probably drunk as well. He was talking animatedly to himself, and enjoying eating his mixed greens with his fingers. He also had a family size box of Cheerios.
When he stumbled out, he left the Cheerios behind, and this picture shows our waiter trying to read the old man’s scribbled notes on the back of the Cheerios box.
There are eight million stories in the naked city…
The Brattleboro Selectboard prepares to present information about next year’s town budget to a meeting of excited and concerned citizens.
Normally, this meeting wouldn’t happen: the budget was already passed at our annual Town Meeting a few weeks ago. But, a grumpy minority didn’t like the amount being spent on our planned police/fire department renovation and submitted a petition to call a referendum and so now we have to have a vote.
So, is this Democracy In Action, or is it a case of pathological activism? We’ll start to find out over the next couple of hours.
In Great Barrington, it’s okay to fix the streetlights with duct tape.
Book of Mormon
On Friday night, we trekked into Hartford to see the National Touring Company production of Book Of Mormon. In exchange for a small donation to an AIDS-related charity on the way out, I got this blurry picture with the chief missionary whose head looked even more bizarrely huge up close than it did on stage.
The show was great, everything we could have hoped that Parker and Stone could bring to a lifestyle and belief system we have observed with some care but still don’t understand hardly at all.
The Bushnell Theater was magnificent! Hopefully we’ll be back there soon.
Cornerstone Baptist Church, Brattleboro
Jesus == Superman
Finally it all makes sense to me, like how come they’ve never been seen at the same time.
Circus Spectacular at the Latchis
Last weekend we went to Circus Spectacular with MaryLu and Isaac and Sage and their visiting friends from SLC. It’s the big annual fundraiser show for NECCA, and they nearly filled the Latchis main theater.
The show itself was a bit of a disappointment. Last year, they were able to entice a number of veteran pros to come out and do a routine, but this year the focus was on school alumni who maybe aren’t quite at the same level yet. The aerial acts were particularly challenging to stay focused on: climb the rope/fabric/trapeze, put on some overblown world music, strike a pose, repeat. Obviously difficult, but not so difficult as to get you up out of your seat.
Maybe the best moment for us was a little girl in the row behind us during an overlong clown routine: she laughed and laughed like it was truly the funniest thing she’d ever seen.
We hope NECCA does well as they plan to build a new facility along Putney Rd. I understand why a brand new probably metal building will make sense, but the century-old grit of their current digs in the Cotton Mill seems very circus-y, and it would be a shame if NECCA turns into just another after school activity.
Mud season begins
Two years ago we went to our first sugar on snow supper. Nothing much has changed, which is as it should be. Here’s the snow, which gets packed into bowls and drizzled with specially thick maple syrup. Served with pickles and cider donuts it’s the perfect dessert.
Maybe you had to be there…
Somebody did a great job bringing a much needed dose of spring to the snowbank outside the Senior Center.
Apelon’s new HQ in Hartford is in this historic building. Someday I’ll get a shot with the sun shining into our suite…
Oscar!!
Me and a healthy helping of arm candy at the Latchis for Oscar night.
Me and a few other guys congratulated ourselves on pulling the tuxes out of mothballs.
UPDATE: thanks to the ‘must be present to win’ rule and a judge nearsighted enough to think I look like Christian Bale, I won the Best Dressed contest. W00t!!
Brattleboro Adventure – the Auckland Edition 