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Shows on Saturday

01.20.2007

da da kamera‘s “A Beautiful View” is not a great play. It’s an okay play, a spirited two-hander about a couple of non-lesbian women who sleep together anyway. It’s light enough, with a enough iventive moments to keep me mostly awake, and the actors definitely make it worth the proce of admission, but the play is more than slightly marred by the completely absurd fact that both characters get eaten by a bear 30 seconds before the end. I think that’s all I have to say about that.

No, I’m wrong, one more thing. The play would work better as a series of sketches on “Kids in the Hall”, “The State”, or “Mr. Show”.

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NYC First couple of days

01.19.2007

Well, we’ve had a great 1.5 days in NYC so far.

Thursday night, we squeeeezed into Mike’s (Acacia’s brother) car. The trunk was alrady full, so we had me in the front seat with Acacia’s smaller suitcase and Dave in the back with my suitcase and his, then poured Acacia into the tiny space between Dave and the Suitcases. Good times. Then we took 45 minutes to get out of the parking lot, during which Dave and Acacia experienced agony unlike anything felt before. I was hurtin too, but not by comparison.

We were gonna go to John’s for pizza that night, but they were closed by the time we got to the city. (Keep in mind that the 100 feet we traveled in line to pay out of the lot took three times longer than the trip to Dave’s hotel. We dropped Dave off and ate at the Astoria Diner in – get this – Astoria. Hmmm.

Then sleeping on the biggest air-mattress I’ve ever seen.

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