Dance

Went to see Velocity DC with neotoma last night. It was a terrific smorgasbord of samples (or maybe I should use tapas as an example since I enjoyed the flamenco so much) from lots of small local dance companies. The first piece, using black light and suspension harnesses, was a terrific opener. While they revised the stage, a local hand-dance group came out and performed. Hand-dance is the DC equivalent to West Coast Swing, East Coast Swing, or Ceroc. They even showed us variations like birding and skating which were fun to see. The "pre-professional" group at the end were very high energy and quite beautiful dancers. In between, there were only a couple of dances that didn't grab me and make me smile.

We ate at Ping-Pong first. So I guess the analogy above should have been dim-sum.

Which Harry Potter book...

Has the first meeting between the Muggle Prime Minister and Cornelius Fudge? I thought it was Goblet of Fire, but if it is, I can't find the chapter. Hmmmph!

I amuse me!

Two Yuletides ago, I wrote A Cold Spring Evening in Southwark. In it, I had Shakespeare claiming to have co-written Arden of Fabersham one of the long disputed plays. Now, in fairness, I had him co-write it with Kit Marlowe, but I'm still chuckling gleefully over an Observer article which says Arden of Faversham will be included in a new book co-edited by the The Royal Shakespeare Company as a collaboration between Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd.

So, the one disputed play I have long thought to be a Shakespeare play (I read Arden when I was in college), is being considered -- all right, only by some people and in a really limited sense -- part of canon. I am vindicated! *giggle*