Over the weekend, I watched my friend Michael perform in Little Shop of Horrors, and I had a bit of a surprise: the play ended unhappily. Crazy green mutant plants took over Skid Row, everyone (human) died, and the girl-group chorus wrapped everything up by singing “Don’t Feed the Plants.” And actually, that was a […]
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Eclipse of the Moon
I’d never witnessed a lunar eclipse before, so on February 20th I set aside my stacks of papers and gazed at the night sky. Through a skylight on the second floor of my house, I watched the moon grow dull and orange, as the lights of Saturn and the star Regulus became more vibrant. Astronomers […]
“There’s a heaven, and there’s a star for you…”
On Friday, a group of us went to hear Daniel Johnston at First Avenue. We’d seen The Devil and Daniel Johnston, a recent documentary of the folk singer’s life and work, and we’d come away entranced by his raw, childlike songs. Daniel Johnston’s musical career has been disrupted by repeated bouts of severe mental illness, […]