Somehow I failed to notice 'til yesterday that there are not one but two events I want to attend tonight (Friday), both of them just far enough away (in opposite directions) to be nontrivial to get to.<\/p>\n
On the one hand, at San Francisco's Borderlands Books, at 7 p.m., John Scalzi and Mary Robinette Kowal will be doing a reading<\/a>, titled \"John and Mary Show You Their Shorts.\" Scalzi and Mary are both recent Campbell Award winners, both have been published in SH<\/cite>, and both are fun and entertaining; I'm guessing it'll be a lively and funny evening.<\/p>\n On the other hand, at Santa Cruz's First Congregational Church, at 7:30 p.m., singer\/songwriter John McCutcheon will perform a concert<\/a> as a benefit for the Resource Center for Nonviolence. McCutcheon has performed in Santa Cruz every year for a long time, and I've gone most years since I first heard about these concerts. Some of them have been magnificent, some just fun, some only okay.<\/p>\n The two events are each a 45-minute drive from my place--one to the north, one to the south--and it's a drive through Friday evening rush-hour traffic. And transportation may be tricky anyway. It might be simplest to just stay home.<\/p>\n But I'm going to be sad to miss either event, and more sad if I miss both. So I'll see what I can do.<\/p>\n