*queep*

Hi. A post for Dreamwidth and not LJ.

I have a paid subscription, which will run out in a week or so. The question is... should I continue on Dreamwidth? If I just let the sub lapse, I'll still have an account, but none of the perks of a paid membership, whatever they are.

This is the first time I've logged into DW in months. It is, at best, redundant with LJ, and I've seen no posts that weren't also there. I have far fewer DW Friends than LJ (which looks even worse compared to FB), so some of this is simply my lack of interest in expanding my participation here.

So... all you die-hard DWers: Has it been worth it? Do you think it might be worth it for me? What have you uniquely gotten from DW?

And if you only read DW posts on LJ and don't see this, that counts as a disrecommendation.

Remember the Sonny and Cher Show? Maybe just the Sonny Show or the Cher Show, or when they got back together? A fixture was their daughter, Chastity. She came out as a lesbian many decades ago.

Now, Chaz Bono is going to be a man.

I wish her well on her life's journey and all that, but a little bit of my formative years have just receded a tad farther in the past.

Reminder: The Club showing (with party afterward) of 800 Words: The Transmigration of Philip K. Dick is tonight at 8pm. Playwrights Center, 2301 Franklin Ave. E (near the U, right off 94). They presented an excerpt at Opening Ceremonies at Minicon.

If you miss tonight, it will be performed a few more times until Sunday 6/7, but tonight will be jam packed (we hope) with MN-StFers and MISFITSians.

(Yes, I'm going to link to Facebook from an entry that's crossposted from Dreamwidth to LiveJournal. Just be happy I'm not Twiting about the irony.)

The second round of May Day Parade & Festival Pictures are online. Full gallery much later.

My crossposting-fu is incomplete, so LJ gets its own announcement.

I'm starting to post May Day pictures on Facebook. Only a few up at the moment, but I'll be adding to this gallery, and others as need be. I took altogether too many pictures, but a full gallery on my site will (eventually) have more pics, with greater annotation. But you knew that.

I have one or two Dreamwidth invite codes which I'll be happy to share. First come, first served. Please include an e-mail address or your request doesn't count. Comments screened.

Update Offer closed, until DW does something different. Let me know if they go through. I didn't have enough for all requests, sorry.

I'm on Dreamwidth as barondave. Thanks, ckd. Why I'm there, I don't know. Perhaps you'll tell me.

LiveJournal will remain my apa of choice.

I have this mad desire to fire up a 300 baud modem and log on to a BBS. Or do a zine in hecto...

If you like South Park, you may like parts of Hamlet 2. Dreadful, absolutely dreadful. I barely made it to the end. A no-talent drama teacher in a low-budget high school in Tuscon works for gas money. All of a sudden, the school cancels all other electives and the class has an influx of new students who don't care about drama. He can't deal.

Really, it's a pretty bad movie. But it has nuggets of fun stuff. Mostly, the actual play itself. Somewhat to my surprise, the little snippets of Hamlet 2, and the audience reaction, almost rescue the movie. Almost. You have to wallow through an hour of profanity, stupid plotlines and predictable set-ups before you get to the main event.

I've never heard of most of the actors, and could live without ever hearing of them again. The "device" to have a sequel to a movie where everyone dies at the end is... a time machine. Plus Jesus, telling Hamlet he has to forgive his father. The light saber duel between Hamlet and Laertes is pretty good. I don't feel remotely guilty about these mild spoilers. If you liked the two songs from the play, "Raped In The Face" (really) and "Rock Me Sexy Jesus" (which works), you can sing along with one of the extras.

Elizabeth Shue is terrific. She plays Elizabeth Shue, who has given up acting to be a nurse.

Without the play, I would give Hamlet 2 one star. With the play (and the fun extras), it has worked it's way up to two stars (out of Netflix' 5). If you're into self-destructive humor, don't like Tuscon or like to talk over bad movies, this is for you. Everyone else should either run for the hills or only catch the last half hour.

My brother Joe, the physicist, will be on 60 Minutes this evening to discuss clean coal -- or lack thereof re solutions to climate change and which ones should be pursued and which should be avoided as making the problem worse.

He doesn't know which parts of his pre-filmed interview will be used, but it should be good. Some in my Trivia group watch 60 Minutes, and I might have some bragging rights...

Part I here

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	Hand mural In an alley half a block from Main Street is this mural, which no other explanation. I like the concept, the odd hands away from the group at the top, and the pink feet at bottom right. River Falls, 4/22/09
	Downtown Sculpture The other side of the riverwalk, facing Main Street, with some memorial bricks at the base. River Falls, WI 4/22/09
	Brickhouse Music guitar selection Every town of 10,000 should have a good music store. Here, one of the clerks at Brickhouse Music poses in front of the electric guitars. The acoustic selection is in another room. River Falls, WI 4/22/09
	River Falls Rainbow Walking around, the weather was great. Rain barely marred the day, and then ended with a gorgeous rainbow. I couldn't capture the whole arc, and pushed this a bit in Photoshop, but you get the idea. River Falls, WI 4/22/09