Author: F C

Finding Xanadu 上都 and Five Years of Triscribe

Last night P- got me tickets to see Xanadu the musical as an advanced birthday present, as the show is closing this weekend. I got to see the talented Kerry Butler, who I actually knew in high school – she was the lead in all of our high school musicals when I was on the stage crew. It was hysterical in how it embraces the Olivia Newton-John movie score, rejects the movie, and yet imbues the Three’s Company-era Venice Beach of the 80’s.


Cheyenne Jackson & P-


Me and Kerry Butler

According to Wikipedia, Xanadu was Kubla Khan’s summer capital Shengdu. From Marco Polo’s description, it seemed to be a resort of sorts. This became the inspiration for the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem.

If you are looking for a message from the musical, it is the search for “Xanadu”, which is defined in the story as “finding true love, and creating and sharing art.” I guess that is what we have been trying to do with Triscribe for the last five years, and it has worked: I’ve found true love (who I’m going to marry in 2 weeks – we’re picking up the rings today), and we have been able to share our love for food, travel, news, writing, and just about everything else.

As always, thanks to my compatriots SSW & YC for keeping this going!

End of world averted once again, one Connor wins, and one loses

CERN launches world’s largest particle collider As SSW mentioned, there was some hysterics that a mistake could cause a mini black hole and end civilization as we know it. But thankfully that did not come to pass – it only made two dots on a CRT screen.

Season opener of Sarah Connor Chronicles – AWESOME! Usual EW major spoilers here.  Fantastic Terminator action in this first episode, where Camaron turns on John. Wrecked more vehicles in one episode than they do in most movies. And the first appearance of a T-1001 – look out!

Primary results: Daniel Squadron defeats incumbant Martin Connor. For someone who has been in office since the ’70’s, and is actually my state senator, I have almost zero knowledge about Connor.  I’ve never met him in person or seen him at public events or anything, and I have met or seen most of my other elected officials at one point or another. But for crying out loud, Squadron’s clipboarding posse was really annoying. They were worse than the canvassers described in the recent issue of the Village Voice. They even had people come up to my apartment twice to ask if I was voting, and that kind of turned me off. But at least he’s trying. The clincher is that Squadron had Chinese on his banners, and Connor didn’t. That might seem to be a small thing, but it’s often the small things that count.