Aug. 9th, 2006

djonn: Self-portrait, May 2025 (Default)

Most years, the annual Shakespeare Festival pilgrimage is a family event.  This time, however, I was on my own, and as a result I went exploring among the Ashland restaurant scene in search of new and interesting places to eat.  I found a couple, and as I have a foodie or two in the gallery, I figure I ought to indulge in a bit of additional reportage.

If food be the music of love, read on.... )

djonn: Self-portrait, May 2025 (Default)

Most years, the annual Shakespeare Festival pilgrimage is a family event.  This time, however, I was on my own, and as a result I went exploring among the Ashland restaurant scene in search of new and interesting places to eat.  I found a couple, and as I have a foodie or two in the gallery, I figure I ought to indulge in a bit of additional reportage.

If food be the music of love, read on.... )

djonn: Self-portrait, May 2025 (Default)

....to comment here on one of my most satisfying entertainment purchases for the summer.  No, not the movie tickets to Superman Returns or Dead Man's Chest (the first was Weird; the second was swashbuckling).

No, not the theater tickets either (there having been no forgetting involved).

No, this almost-too-late consumer alert is intended to make you run right out to your local Internet and acquire your minimum annual nutritional requirement of zombies, ghosts, wood-sprites, and other relentlessly introspective natural, unnatural, and supernatural creatures.  You need a copy of Seanan McGuire's  Pretty Little Dead Girl, and you need it now (before she closes out the online order form).

Full review under the cut.... )

djonn: Self-portrait, May 2025 (Default)

....to comment here on one of my most satisfying entertainment purchases for the summer.  No, not the movie tickets to Superman Returns or Dead Man's Chest (the first was Weird; the second was swashbuckling).

No, not the theater tickets either (there having been no forgetting involved).

No, this almost-too-late consumer alert is intended to make you run right out to your local Internet and acquire your minimum annual nutritional requirement of zombies, ghosts, wood-sprites, and other relentlessly introspective natural, unnatural, and supernatural creatures.  You need a copy of Seanan McGuire's  Pretty Little Dead Girl, and you need it now (before she closes out the online order form).

Full review under the cut.... )

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