SMILE
This post is brought to you by Priya, who actually said the last one was “helpful”. Hahaha…
So, SMILE. (In all caps, nonetheless.) This is a musical about a beauty pageant, which of course is about much more than physical beauty. (echo: of course!) On the one hand you have Brenda Freelander, the primary pageant organizer, Big Bob Freelander, her husband, and Tommy French, the choreographer, all trying to make the pageant match their ideas of what it should be. On the other, you have the most competitive contestants, Sandra-Kay (nearly perfect, but not actually a large role), Maria (disliked…
V-Day
Tonight I went to see the Vagina Monologues. I go to performances in general, but I’ll admit this isn’t something I’d usually go to see. For most of it I felt like a spectator; I’m not really the one who needs to hear most of the messages. But I did have two friends in it, so…
One-word summary was “wow”. One-phrase was “a whole lot of emotions in two and a half hours”. Self-empowerment to past pains to mass abuse and femicide to…wonder. Very well done, very powerful. Actually, it felt like a direct descendent of Interprative speech…but it’s for…
JavaScript Tetris
I’m ashamed to present the under-ten-hours project for the Flash-deprived: JavaScript Tetris!
This began with a conversation on my floor (not word-for-word, it was like a week ago):
L: Aw, I’m being so unproductive!
Me: Hmm…maybe we should turn off your Flash. *grin*
L: Ah, no, don’t do that!
Me: All right, I’ll leave you one game. In, like, JavaScript or something.
L: Heh, is that like some kind of ghetto language or something?
A few days later I was up really really late (too late to do useful work), and I whimsically decided to start. I chose Tetris…