• Since we hooked up the new TiVo on December 16, we have not plugged our DVD player back in. I will eventually do this, at least so I can watch seasons one and two of the Mary Tyler Moore Show which Santa brought for me.
• Among the lots of way cool stuff we got from Ms. Trix & Mr. Villain at our Christmas-on-New-Year’s exchange the other night, we got this totally clever hand-knitted Helium. High-larious!
• We saw the ART production of Chekov’s Three Sisters last week. As you’d expect from the ART, it was avant-garded-up. Not your great-grand-uncle’s Chekov. Most in the forefront for me? The pace. Very. Slow. Long. Uncomfortable pauses. Every sentence. Hanging. Disjointed. And yet it didn’t feel like one of those “let’s see how wacky we can be with a classic” kind of things. It felt like it was just bringing out absurd touches and explorations of irrationality that were already there, and all the empty space brought out the frustration and boredom of a leisure class falling on hard times. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any performance of any kind that was so content to take its own time. And which left time to really think about it as it was going on.

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