Today is rainy and overcast, but the last few days have been lovely. As much as you all know how I do love the winter, I do actually like spring. Even if it does inevitably lead to summer, spring has some really great flowers.
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Yes, some filler has been added to GoT
Last night’s episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones (First of His Name) definitively proved three things:
1) Hodor is awesome.
2) Brienne and Pod may well be the next Tyrion and Bronn in terms of comedy on the show.
3) One important ASOIAF character from the books may not ever make an appearance on the GoT television show.
The Art of Craft
Singing Stones Jewelry will be a featured vendor this weekend at The Art of Craft at the Fayerweather School in Cambridge. This is a fundraising fair for the arts programs at the school. There will be live music, food, and lots of handmade pieces by craftspeople from all over the region.
Please come and bring the whole family. Admission is $5 per person with a maximum cost of $20 per family. Parking is FREE and the school is located just off of Route 2 and also off of the Rt 78 and 74 bus lines.
~Kelly
The Internet tells me things
And today it has been telling me things with pictures. And so, I am telling them to you. A lot has been changing in the world and in our lives in the past few days, so you get pictures.
First, my favorite.
Cantilena in concert Sunday May 4 – 4:00pm Arlington, MA
This Sunday Cantilena will perform their second concert of the season at 4:00pm in Arlington, MA. Josh Lawton, organist and choirmaster of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Central Sq, Cambridge will accompany the group.
Spring Concert: Sunday, May 4th, 4 p.m.
Immovable Objects, Irresistible Forces: Songs of Human and Natural Wonders
Cantilena performs a variety of songs for women’s voices about forces of nature, human endurance, and triumph over personal challenges. Compositions range from Romantic to Modern, featuring works by Franz Schubert, Emma Lou Diemer, and Ron Jeffers. Experience Jonathan Pieslak’s energetic “Solar Flares” set to Romanian poetry, Susan Borwick’s bluesy setting of a famous speech by Sojourner Truth, Carol Barnett’s raucous and lusty interpretation of Dorothy Parker’s sarcastic “Song of Perfect Propriety,” and music sung by women imprisoned during WWII in Sumatra as memorably depicted in the film “Paradise Road.”
For more information on the concert click here. Ticket information is here. The concert will be held at:
First Parish Unitarian Universalist
630 Massachusetts Ave., Arlington, MA
First Parish is accessible by the 77 bus.
~Kelly
@MetroBOS thinks we’ve “lost the marathon spirit”
Twitter is hilarious. It has the tremendous power for good and also the power to do some really horrible stuff. Then stuff like this happens.
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The King is Dead, Long Live the King
If you missed Game of Thrones last night then you’re probably going to be confused by the title of this post. That or you’ve already been spoiled by the internet from some other source. Either way sorry/not sorry.
Geoff and I have read the books, in some cases more than once, so we know the general story line despite what Benioff and Weiss might do to it to streamline for TV. That being said, the title of this post isn’t in and of itself a spoiler, it’s tradition. Either way, if you don’t want to know more, don’t go past the jump.
Surviving the Apocalypse
As anyone who knows me well will tell you, I am somewhat obsessed with emergency preparedness and safety in general. Mind you, not to the point of having a bunker and hoarding gold coins and such, but I do take that sort of thing seriously when it comes to normal Red Cross-type preparation.
Well, this past week I got to hear Annalee Newitz, one of the founders of io9, give a reading from her new book: Scatter, Adapt, and Remember:
How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction. And it was quite illuminating, and a lot of fun to boot. Count on the Harvard Bookstore to always bring in cool authors.
CHICKEN
So there was the Game of Thrones season 4 premiere.
Then this happened.
And then, the fan art.
My day? Made.
~Kelly
ETA: Fan art, the gift that keeps on giving. Now with MORE CHICKEN.
ETA the Second:
While twitter brought us the above image, it didn’t bring an attribution… immediately. Thanks to the link to this post getting around the original artist got in touch with me and I can credit the original image to ROCOM. You can find ROCOM at that link, which goes to tumblr, or on twitter @rocom
This is what the original image looks like.
If I hear from the creator of the image at the top I’ll be glad to ETA again.
Come. Sing. Have fun.
I’ll let the graphic speak for itself.
~Kelly
The Books are Taking Over... 