Category: whimsy

2007’s Most Ironically Un-Ironic Performance:

Elvis Costello performing at Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 60th birthday party/fundraiser.

2007’s Best ‘What America’s really about even though we seem to have lost sight of the fact’ Moment:

Nikki Giovanni rallying the students at Virginia Tech.

Betty and I have been joking for a few months now that our whole goal is to make it through 2007 in one piece. It’s just been that kind of year, where so much of what could go wrong didn’t exactly go wrong, but didn’t exactly go right, either. It was the kind of year where if we had a party we were really looking forward to on a Saturday night, that Saturday our hot water wasn’t working so we couldn’t shower before the party, & so, didn’t go. It was the kind of year where my father – after months of deliberations by various specialists – finally had a defribulator put in his chest, only to have that very same defribulator recalled – exactly six days after his surgery.

So goodbye, and good riddance, 2007! In order to look back at the year, I’ll be posting the Best & Worst (as well as Most Surprising, Most Unexpected, etc.) of what the year had to offer, starting with:

2007 – Gayest Theatrical Moment:

Rufus Wainwright performing Judy Garland’s Carnegie Hall concert in its entirety, and with remarkable faithfulness to the original. Though he did mention that the “clang clang clang” bit was, all by itself, the gayest live concert moment of the year.

Tune in for more, and feel free to add some of your own.

Hey, it’s actually cold outside! Finally! Though it is funny, traveling between Andover (which is near the border of New Hampshire) and New York, as it feels like I’m going through the change of seasons twice: leaves were changing up there when they were still green in Brooklyn, then they were falling off up there while changing color down here, and now, I expect, it will be genuinely cold up there while it’s still getting cold down here. I assume I’ll see snow on campus before I see it in Brooklyn, too. Interesting. It’s like traveling back & forth in time, kinda.

& I assume I’ll feel like I’m traveling back (or forward?) to the Ice Age when I move to Wisconsin. I did already buy a pair of waterproof boots, light green Timberlands, off Ebay.

(Someone remind me to post about the lectures I did at Merrimack, and about Betty’s visit to my class, please. I keep forgetting.)

A very happy Thanksgiving to the Americans out there! Tolerate your family even if you can’t enjoy them! & Don’t eat too much! & Don’t drive drunk, please.