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[danceboy]

These past few months I've been going through my library reading the books that I bought years ago, but never read. For the most part, these books have been terrible (e.g. "Coriolanus, the chariot" by Alan Yates started out with a vaguely interesting premise, then just became bad. (No, worse that that. When one character asks "Are you sure you want to do that?" the other senses a trap. I'm not kidding.) "Imperial Stars" was so bad that I started to doubt Doc Smith. Turns out someone else expanded the late Doc's story into a novel).

Anyway, I'm in the middle of "Stochastic man" by Robert Silverberg. It's about a man who can kind of see into the future. Written in the 70s it's set in the mid 90s NYC. At one point the protagonist goes to a party that occupies an entire floor of a skyscraper. On one side the view is blocked by the twin towers. On the other side the windows are opaqued so that people don't see the crater where the statue of liberty used to be.

I put the book down and cried.

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[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

"Imperial Stars" was so bad that I started to doubt Doc Smith.

Yeah, the d'Alembert stuff is Doc in name only. I try to stick to Lensman and Skylark.

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

OY! *hugs*

Not related to this entry :)

[whipchick.livejournal.com]

Two things - 1) we may have met, as I taught some mask workshops for Sebastiani years ago. 2) I'm looking for a female silks performer to work weekends at King Richard's fair. Know anyone? My email is devilini at gte dot net, and there's more info about my company at www.angelsintheair.com.

(I'm that person who wrote "All the good tricks hurt" :)

Allison

[flexagon]

Completely off topic, am I still invited to come try contact improv at some point? We had a whole comment-thread about that once, and it didn't quite happen and I have lost the info.

I have 1.5 weeks left before my next job starts, in which I'm totally free and I promised myself I would be experimental and have fun... so I might be up for contact improv if it fits my schedule. Please let me know / remind me, when and where are the options and that sort of thing. :)

[danceboy.livejournal.com]

Yes! You should come dance! Oh, and I totally flaked on the handstand club thing. I plead infant.

If you're feeling like you want to wade your way in slowly, there's a newbie-friendly jam most every Sunday (usefully, not this one, see below) from 11:30AM-1:30PM at the Arlington Center (369 Mass Ave in Arlington). It's a sweet jam in its own right, but I really don't think that you count as much of a newbie.

There is no Sunday jam this weekend because there is a jam from Friday night until Sunday evening (http://www.geocities.com/ContactImprovBoston/falljam07.htm). I'm going to try to make it large parts of that. We'll see how successful I am. There's a live music jam on Saturday night from 8-10 which will probably be similar to the improv jam below (probably bigger, more ci, people who don't know each other as well).

2nd & 4th Mondays (that is, this coming Monday) there's a improv jam (not just ci, but live music, lowered lights, amazing dancers). This is my favorite dance, but it can be a bit much for some people. If you like to jump in to things, this is it (8-10 PM, top floor of the dance complex, Central Square).

Somewhere in between Mondays & Sundays is the Tuesday night jam (8-10 PM St Mary's Church on Inman St in Central Sq). I haven't been in about 7 months (my son being 6 months), but if you're going, I'll show up (I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that suddenly I can't stay out til 10 two or three nights in a row...).


Wednesday nights there's a barefoot boogie (DJ-ed music, less CI) in Harvard square. I haven't been in a while as it's directly opposite silks practice (Oh! You should come to silks! Lena is bringing her trapeze so we can compare it to the one frobzwiththingz made. Also, I think I found your lj through someone from silks. It's Wednesdays from 7-10PM at Spontaneous Celebrations in JP).

Aside from the full fall jam, everything is around $7-10.

Hmm, I wish lj had some sort of secret email exchange mechanism...

I'm looking forward to meeting you. Be well.

[flexagon]

Oh, thanks for the excellent information. Since this is tagged "LJ comment", gmail will eat it after 30 days, BUT I have saved it in a text file so this time I will not lose it all. I flaked on the handstand club idea, too, this year, and can only plead job search.

You did find me through silks, probably through dilletante, I'm guessing! I went to silks once and I liked it, but it's in direct conflict with both gymnastics and an excellent yoga class (as well as two different knitting circles, either of which I might go to regularly if nothing athletic were happening). I don't know what it is about Wednesdays -- that's just the Night For Cool Things, and every week I find it ever so frustrating that there's only one of me. So, I will look through these dances and see if I can do anything before my 2-week trip to California; if not then I'll do something after it, dammit, because I may as well find out! I would like to find a dance form that I enjoy, and I am not sure, but if other circus-acrobat-wannabes like CI, then it has a chance. :)

This, I think, is about as good as LJ can do... if you write me here, I can reply.

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