Top of the B-List
Forgive me for indulging my stat-whoring blog pride, but I just wanted to thank all of you (including the 83,834 pages served to Google searchers) for making Consolation Champs your destination of choice for dynamic semi-regular content.
Oh, and I made up the Google number, though it could be that many. I’d prefer to keep fooling myself, though…
Brooke took me to the ballet again today. I’m not the dance fanatic that Brooke is, but I do appreciate the hard work and creativity. The highlight of today’s performance was Elite Syncopations, a ballet choreographed to the ragtime music of Scott Joplin and others. I loved the looseness of the dancing, which seemed sometimes like a cross between ballet and the choreography of Bob Fosse. The costumes were wildly garish, too. The best piece was The Alaskan Rag, a number danced by the tallest female dancer (my newest crush, the gorgeous Julie Hay) and the shortest male dancer (the impish Daisuke Ohno). It’s played for laughs, but making yourself look clumsy takes real skill.
Another highlight of the mixed programme was The Judgement of Paris, a twist on the classic Greek tale where Paris must judge the beauty of the three goddesses Juno, Venus, and Minerva. Choreographer Antony Tudor has updated and turned the tale on its head, setting it in a sleazy “nightclub” to the music of Kurt Weill’s Threepenny Opera. A “customer” is choosing between three aging “dancers” who end up robbing him.
For more information, including our seat numbers, check out Brooke‘s site. 🙂
Voice Box is a cool program for Mac OS X that will read text out loud in a variety of voices. The neat thing is that in the new version (1.3), you can have it read RSS feeds. It can also save the results to a sound file that can be transferred to your iPod. A great way to catch up on your favourite weblogs and news sites on your way to work.
Taking a cue from Tim, I’m posting a list of the last 10 MP3s that iTunes, set to Shuffle, played for me:
Why don’t you join in the meme? Make a post to your blog, then let me know in the comments below.
And yes, I’m aware that you can already see what the last 10, in fact the last 50, songs I’ve played just by clicking here. Don’t rain on my parade.
Shift was Canada’s version of Wired, though much more narrowly focussed on the “digital lifestyle.” Despite its general excellence, it never really found much of a reader base. It looks like it may be dead for good this time. It will be missed.