by Rhiannon Paine | Sep 29, 2011 | Artists & the Arts, General, Just for Fun
I’m just back from Opera at the Park, San Francisco’s annual “watch opera in a baseball park while eating popcorn” event. This year’s opera was Turandot (final “t” sounded) by Giacomo Puccini. I know it’s easy to mock the plots of operas, which is...
by Rhiannon Paine | Sep 5, 2011 | General, Just for Fun, Signs of the Times
There were three magazines my dentist’s waiting room: the current issue of Showplaces; a dog-eared copy of People (“Robert Pattison Bares All!”); and a new publication, Consumer’s Guide to Sex (“CGS Rates the Vibrators”). So I picked up Showplaces. “For his...
by Rhiannon Paine | Sep 3, 2011 | General, Just for Fun, Once Upon a Time
In my last post I described some of the scary things you might encounter while walking in the California countryside: rattlesnakes, poison oak, mountain lions, etc. In Britain, by contrast, you’ll encounter nothing that’s poisonous or person-eating....
