Laura Conrad

New traffic light needs manual

[traffic light]

They’ve put a new traffic
light in Kendall Square. You need to read the manual before
you cross the street.

Cantabile Holiday Party

[owl in tree]

I wrote:

The January 1 date for our annual party has been
working out well. But this year, January 1 is a Friday, and I
don’t see that the Saturday or Sunday would be any worse than the
Friday. So let me know by Friday if you’d prefer to come on one of
those dates instead of January 1.

So far I have heard a murmur against January 2, and no
enthusiasm for January 3, so it will be January 1.

So bring your voice, bring your instruments, bring your
friends, bring food and drink if you have some you want to share, to 233 Broadway, Cambridge on
January 1, 2016. We’ll start at 4, and continue until everyone
turns into a pumpkin.

As usual, here are printable invitations:

This
one is one page with our flyer on the back.
And This
one can be folded in four to be pocket sized.

[tree with fox]

5/20 in 1968

[Buckley and Vidal]

I watched Best of
Enemies last night.

The debate point that struck me as having changed the most
since 1968 was that Gore Vidal said, “The top five percent of the
population has 20 percent of the wealth and the bottom 20 percent
of the population has five percent of the wealth.”

This sounds like the income equality we only dream about now.

If you’re wondering about whether to see the movie, it’s been
pretty well described in the reviews. I don’t know that anyone
who didn’t watch the debates in 1968 would care much today, but if
like me you were fascinated by it then, you’ll enjoy watching it
again and seeing some of the backstage story.

Another Maia nest

[Maia in her nest]

Maia build an unusually neat nest last night.

And here’s one from last February, when I still thought I could
keep an attractive scarf on my favorite arm chair:

[Maia under scarf tent]

News of the week of December 1, 2015

[Henry VIII]

Meeting report

We played:

Schedule

We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45pm at 233
Broadway, Cambridge.

Party planning

The January 1 date for our annual party has been working out
well. But this year, January 1 is a Friday, and I don’t see that
the Saturday or Sunday would be any worse than the Friday. So let
me know by Friday if you’d prefer to come on one of those dates instead of
January 1. I want to start getting invitations out.

Other event

The annual Pub Carol Sing, sponsored by the Folksong Society of Greater Boston and
the West
Gallery Quire will be this Sunday, December 6 at 2 pm at
Doyles Cafe in Jamaica Plain.

News of the week of November 24, 2015

[river valley]

(non)Meeting report

With people out of town and rehearsing for other groups and
having just returned from being out of town, we didn’t have a
quorum for a regular meeting.

However, there was a 5-part piece we’d been wanting to
proofread for a while, so two of us joined 3 players at John
Tyson’s place and proofread Valle che de’ lamenti miei
se’ piena by Giaches de Wert

Schedule

We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45pm at 233
Broadway, Cambridge.

Party planning

The January 1 date for our annual party has been working out
well. But this year, January 1 is a Friday, and I don’t see that
the Saturday or Sunday would be any worse than the Friday. So let
me know if you’d prefer to come on one of those dates instead of
January 1.

Saving the World Wide Web

Everyone should read this article about saving the World Wide Web.

It explains why I’m having so much trouble figuring out how to use Facebook — I keep thinking Facebook is part of the web, instead of being part of the media entertainment industry.