An after-Thanksgiving treat for the whole family...
Scrooge has no honor, nor any courage. Can three ghosts help him to become the true warrior he ought to be in time to save Tiny Tim from a horrible fate? Performed in the Original Klingon with English Supertitles, and narrative analysis from The Vulcan Institute of Cultural Anthropology.
Playing November 27 through December 13 at Minneapolis' Mixed Blood Theater. No really, this is for serious.
(Thanks Joel!)
A huge amount of email from the East Anglia Climate Research Unit was hacked and released onto the web, causing much rejoicing from the climate change denialists. They read through the corpus of email and found that the scientists working on climate change often have substantive disagreements with o... More.
From the very, very funny 27b/6 blog, an imaginary (I hope) correspondence between a guy who wants a free logo designed and the designer he's hitting up. Warning, contains lots of f-words. From: Simon Edhouse Date: Monday 16 November 2009 2.19pm To: David Thorne Subject: Logo Design Hello David, ... More.
Two US Senators, Bernie Sanders (I-VI) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH), have written to the US Trade Representative demanding that the text of the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement be made public. This is the treaty that allows for criminal sanctions against noncommercial file-sharers, demands bor... More.
Matt Logue says: I just completed a self-published book depicting an uninhabited Los Angeles, and it got an honorable mention in the photography.book.now competition at blurb.com! The photos were made over a period of 4 years, beginning in 2005, at a variety of locations around LA. Empty Los An... More.
I love this simple wooden orrery from Muji's gift lineup. Sadly, their ecommerce-fu is about as terrible as it gets, but if you're near a Muji store, it's £16 well-spent. Wooden Solar System (Thanks, Alice!) ... More.
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The Klingon New Testament begins with Jesus' humble birth in a slaughterhouse and ends with him nailing all the Romans to crosses.
Damn you, Minneapolis! Ever since I bought a house in MI, you've been working to woo me into moving back to your icy, snowy arms.
Man there's no way the woman with the dak'tagh should be winning that fight.
I don't think she is. It looks like that bat'leth is about to slide right into her neck. If she does happen to win then she will make an exceptionally fine mate.
I saw this two years ago. The Tiny Tim character was played by a ventriloquist's dummy.
Actually, it was a bunraku puppet. The same puppet was used the second year. This year a more muppet-like puppet is being used.
I've already got my tickets!
But can I talk my niece into giving up "The Nutcracker?"