My friends got together for my birthday, and we had the best time. Dinner at Fresco by Scotto with several of my favorite people.
Then a bunch of us headed into Brooklyn for Floating Kabarette, an amazing burlesque show held every Saturday at Galapagos Art Space. Can’t recommend it enough, $10 bucks for the most fun I’ve had since my last birthday. Aerialists, can-can girls, the Red Hook Ramblers ragtime band. Fabulous!
Steve Jobs got me good. I can’t get enough of this thing. I’m using an Apple photo of the iPad because I’m writing this post from mine, trying to figure out how to blog on it. And I’m in Philadelphia with a dead camera battery and limited resources, so…stock photo. If it posts, we’ll see if i actually got this to work.
There are so many movies I’m excited for in the new year, but here are 5 to get us going.
Don’t get me started on James Frey’s writing factory controversy. But I can’t deny that the trailers for this film adaptation of Full Fathom Five’s 1st book are intriguing. Can you like a movie if you object on principal to the book from which it’s adapted? February will tell for I Am Number Four.
Don’t forget to track Santa with NORAD!
Yesterday we had a half day at school, so I hopped on the 2:06 train and headed into Manhattan. I went up to the Museum of Natural History to see the parade balloons inflated. My family used to do this almost every year when I was a kid, but there aren’t very many people left who like to go with me. So, until there’s another generation of Reeves to pass this tradition on to, I flew solo.
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