I can't make it to this (unless I went after shul... hmmm...) but I thought others might be interested.

Meet the Vermont Cheesemakers and taste their cheeses at Rendezvous!

You are cordially invited to join us for a tasting of delicious wares of many different Vermont cheesemakers:

Date: Saturday, January 27th
Time: 1-3pm
Where: Rendezvous in Central Square

Who: Cheesemakers from the following farms will be on hand to offer samples of their wares and discuss the details of their cheesemaking: Willow Farm, Grafton Village, Lazy Lady Farm, Vermont Butter and Cheese, Cabot Creamery, Taylor Farm, West River Creamery, and more . . . .

This event is free and open to the public.
Please come join us for a fantastic tasting, and take advantage of this opportunity to meet the cheesemakers!

www.rendezvouscentralsquare.com

The Rendezvous in Central Square is located at:

502 Mass Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: 617.576.1900
Fax: 617.576.1931

Tuesday, April 25th is Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's.

Go to a Ben & Jerry's scoop shop from noon to 8:00pm and get a free ice cream cone.

Now that's a holiday I can get behind! And thank goodness it comes after Passover!

I've been seeing Peter Mulvey shows now for well over a decade. My Palm Pilot lists about ten shows going back to 1998, and I first met Peter playing in the subway somewhere around 1992, I think. I don't generally have a lot of patience for live music. There's not a lot to look at, nothing to do with my hands, and I often can't make out the words too well.

( overtired rambling about a fabulous artist )

Anyway. I went to sleep way too late and I'm probably not too coherent this morning, but I wanted to share what a fabulous show it was. Thanks to palmwiz and kalliejenn2 and dreams_of_wings for joining me. And if you have the time to go see Peter tonight at the Lizard Lounge or Saturday night at Johnny D's, go!

After all these years, Peter Mulvey still rocks my world. Sleep now, concert review tomorrow if I'm awake enough to write one.

Old Simon Stimson - Peter Mulvey

For those who care: Purim is this Monday night/Tuesday. Megilla reading at Tremont St is at 6:30pm Monday night. Come see me as Haman in the Purim Spiel!

(If you don't know what any of this means -- don't worry about it. It's an FUJT.)

My synagogue (and chanaleh's) is throwing an '80s Dance this Saturday night! It's 8pm-midnight. Temple Beth Shalom, a.k.a. tremontstshul. kalessin will be our DJ. I've been the last two years, and it's a lot of fun! '80s dress encouraged. You don't have to be Jewish to come.

Event link
Location/directions (walkable from the Central Sq. T)

For those of you who don't read derspatchel...

The Brattle is having a Muppet Movie Marathon on New Year's Day.

The Muppet Movie at 2:00 pm.
The Great Muppet Caper at 4:30.
The Muppets Take Manhattan at 7:00.
(Repeat of The Muppet Movie at 9:30.)

I'm so there.

This was a Good Weekend™.

Friday night there was a 20s&30s dinner at tremontstshul, always a pleasant event. Lovely to catch up with awhyzip and tapuz and laurens10 and all the others.

Saturday night was the Broadway Night at First Church. I'm reasonably satisfied with my performance in the duet; while my vocal performance was not all I could have hoped for, it was also not as bad as I had feared, and I think I managed to give an entertaining performance overall. (chanaleh, of course, was amazing and a joy to perform with. And heliopsis blew my socks off.) It was wonderful to see so many friendly faces in the audience -- I always enjoy performing more in front of friends.

After the show we went out to see The Corpse Bride to celebrate jmspencer's birthday, a movie I've been eagerly awaiting and certainly enjoyed. And then alfie1981 and ironpoet and I went back to his place and introduced her to the joys of Firefly.

This morning I woke up, made myself some cinnamon rolls and coffee that I enjoyed sitting out on the back porch (somehow I never think to go out there, but the smoke alarm went off baking the rolls so I opened the door to air out the kitchen and it looked so inviting outside.) Then derspatchel and I met up to go see Mickey Rooney and his wife Jan perform at the Regent in Arlington. Spatch is the only guy I know who would really get what it meant to see Mickey live. The show was an entertaining enough mix of song, video, and reminiscences, but really, just being in the presence of this tiny giant of a man made it all worthwhile.

Just getting home now from a lovely dinner with muffyjo, and there's a slim chance I may actually make it to bed at a reasonable hour tonight.

Come watch chanaleh and myself perform at...

BROADWAY NIGHT

Saturday, September 24, 2005
7:00 pm

Tickets: $5 in advance (ask me now!), $7 at the door

Join us for an evening of your favorite Broadway songs. You’ll even have a chance to sing along with some familiar tunes.
Dessert reception to follow.

First Congregational Church
89 College Avenue
Somerville, MA 02144

First Church is just four blocks from the Davis Square T stop, between Davis and Powderhouse Squares.

Proceeds benefit the FCS Music Program.

I went to a Brockton Rox game with Sully last night. It was pretty much the perfect summer night. We sped out with the windows open, music blasting, and the wind rushing through my hair. Got there just as the game was starting, and bought tickets that put us behind the Rox dugout, closer than I've ever been at Fenway, and on the aisle so we could easily make multiple trips for (kosher!) hot dogs and french fries and peanuts and beer (Sully) and root beer (me). The Rox got 8 runs in the first inning alone, so it wasn't much of a contest -- the final score was 14-2, although we left during the seventh-inning stretch -- but still fun to watch and cheer and boo the umpire and laugh at the sound effects and movie clips played over the loudspeaker. To my mind baseball is the perfect sporting event to attend; you have plenty of time to hang out and chat while still keeping an eye on the field for exciting plays.

The best part of the night, aside from the company of course, was K.O., the Rox's mascot. He's a boxing kangaroo, and he's got an awful lot of personality for a guy in a kangaroo suit. Kids and grown-ups alike were calling out for him to come over and visit with them. It is my fond hope to go back another game and get K.O. to sign my new Brockton Rox baseball cap. Go Rox!

T-E-A-M (The Baseball Game) - You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown