{"id":13738,"date":"2011-06-15T01:05:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T08:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2011\/06\/15\/13738.html"},"modified":"2011-06-15T01:05:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T08:05:20","slug":"upcoming-events-and-other-stuf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2011\/06\/15\/upcoming-events-and-other-stuf\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming events and other stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Suddenly it seems like there are many Things going on around here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>This weekend in Vallejo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.norcalpiratefestival.com\/\">NorCal Pirate Festival<\/a>. Entertainers, pirates, tall ships, a ship-to-shore battle.<\/li>\n  <li>In San Francisco until July 24: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-sf.org\/1011\/talesofthecity\/\">Tales of the City: The Musical<\/a> at A.C.T. I've heard good things about it.<\/li>\n  <li>In movie theatres nationwide on Thursday the 16th and Sunday the 19th: Quasi-movie version of Sondheim's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fathomevents.com\/performingarts\/series\/sondheim.aspx\">Company<\/a>, featuring the NY Philharmonic, Neil Patrick Harris, Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, et alia. I'm not clear on whether this is a full performance of the show (with costumes and acting) or just a &ldquo;concert&rdquo; performance (with singers standing at mics), but either way I'm inclined to see it, though I've never seen or heard the show before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that's not even counting the regular movies in theatres I want to see (<cite>X-Men<\/cite>, <cite>Green Lantern<\/cite>, maybe <cite>Pirates<\/cite> 4, more coming soon). And the Blu-Ray version of the extended <cite>Lord of the Rings<\/cite> movies is coming out in two weeks. (I haven't seen the extended versions yet.) And I haven't yet finished Portal 2, and I haven't yet started Mass Effect 2, and I just bought three or four boardgames that I'm looking forward to playing. And I'm trying to read and watch Hugo-nominated stuff, so I want to watch the <cite>Scott Pilgrim<\/cite> movie, but I'm trying to decide whether to read the whole comics series before watching the movie. (I've now read vol. 1 and I just can't decide what to make of it.) Meanwhile, I'm still reading and enjoying <cite>Birds of Prey<\/cite>, and I'm in the middle of two or three prose books.<\/p>\n<p>And Kam gets home in a couple of days from a couple weeks of travel.<\/p>\n<p>And the weather is nice enough that if I can get over this cough, I'd like to try sailing again.<\/p>\n<p>And this year's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westercon64.org\/\">Westercon<\/a> is in San Jos&eacute; the first weekend of July.<\/p>\n<p>I'm not sure how I'm going to find time to read subs.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly it seems like there are many Things going on around here: This weekend in Vallejo: NorCal Pirate Festival. Entertainers,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,80,39,58,44,7,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-comics","category-conventions","category-games","category-movies","category-music","category-theatre"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}