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catherineldfWoke up this morning to learn that The Rainbow Reader review blog had named "Silver Moon" to the year's best reads list, and gave it the spontaneously created "Maude Findlay Best Menopausal Storyline in Lesbian Fiction" Award. I love a reviewer with a sense of humor - http://rainbowreader.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-rainbow-reader-awards-very-best-of_20.html?m=1
The rest of the week has included going to the Queer Voices Reading Series with author Rachel Gold on Tuesday. Heard some interesting pieces and got to enjoy Rachel's company at Barbette afterward, so a fine time all around. Last night, Jana, Mr. Matt and I were off to the Minneapolis Institute of Art for an evening of Tudor munchies, wandering Shakespearian actors (from the Cromulent Shakespeare Company) and an all female band called "L'Assassins." Because really, how could we skip this? :-)
The Tudor munchies were excellent - I particularly enjoyed the gooseberry and gooseberry tart from Patisserie 46. Now I just need to find a local source for gooseberries; I bet they make excellent jam. L'Assassins were a bit too rockabilly for me but were pretty entertaining while wandering about looking at the art. One of the actors was someone we'd seen in a couple of shows so I trotted up to her and told her how much we had enjoyed her performance in...a show she hadn't been in! Sigh. Fortunately, I did remember the other shows we'd seen her in and she was very gracious about it ("oh thank you! I wish I'd been in that one." :-) And we'll be seeing her onstage again next weekend when we go to Hardcover Theater's Christmas Ghost Stories show at Bryant Lake Bowl. We never did find the Tudor recipe swap, but ended up leaving the museum gift shop with a CD of music inspired by the Battle of Trafalga (because I'm a Regency nerd. What can I say? :-) and a cookbook of Reniassance recipes for the modern kitchen. Should be entertaining.
In any case, here's wishing everyone a delightful series of holidays and a wonderous 2013 to come!
The rest of the week has included going to the Queer Voices Reading Series with author Rachel Gold on Tuesday. Heard some interesting pieces and got to enjoy Rachel's company at Barbette afterward, so a fine time all around. Last night, Jana, Mr. Matt and I were off to the Minneapolis Institute of Art for an evening of Tudor munchies, wandering Shakespearian actors (from the Cromulent Shakespeare Company) and an all female band called "L'Assassins." Because really, how could we skip this? :-)
The Tudor munchies were excellent - I particularly enjoyed the gooseberry and gooseberry tart from Patisserie 46. Now I just need to find a local source for gooseberries; I bet they make excellent jam. L'Assassins were a bit too rockabilly for me but were pretty entertaining while wandering about looking at the art. One of the actors was someone we'd seen in a couple of shows so I trotted up to her and told her how much we had enjoyed her performance in...a show she hadn't been in! Sigh. Fortunately, I did remember the other shows we'd seen her in and she was very gracious about it ("oh thank you! I wish I'd been in that one." :-) And we'll be seeing her onstage again next weekend when we go to Hardcover Theater's Christmas Ghost Stories show at Bryant Lake Bowl. We never did find the Tudor recipe swap, but ended up leaving the museum gift shop with a CD of music inspired by the Battle of Trafalga (because I'm a Regency nerd. What can I say? :-) and a cookbook of Reniassance recipes for the modern kitchen. Should be entertaining.
In any case, here's wishing everyone a delightful series of holidays and a wonderous 2013 to come!