I'd like to begin my blog post with a plug...

Reading
Caren Lissner, Laurie Graff, and Melanie Murray
read from
SCENES FROM A HOLIDAY
(including the novella "Carrie Pilby's New Year's resolution")
Thursday, December 1, 2005
7:30 pm
Barnes & Noble
Eighth Street and Sixth Ave, West Village
(396 6th Ave at 8th Street)
NYC 10011

So set your TiVos for "Survivor" and "Everybody Hates Chris" and be there!

Another busy offseason for the Mets, acquiring first baseman Carlos Delgado and closer Billy Wagner. Is it April yet?

I saw the film adaptation of "Rent" on Friday. It was highly faithful to the stage play. Jonathan Larsen's music is amazing and it translated well on the big screen. I highly recommend it. One minor thing that bugged me - the stage play came out in 1996 and was vaguely set in the early 1990s. Some of the song lyrics then made pop cultural references to stuff happening around then such as the line "Like Thelma and Louise did when they got the blues." But in the movie, they established that the time frame was 1989 and 1990. They still left that lyric in though... even though "Thelma and Louise" came out in 1991. And then there was the song that they sing about moving to Santa Fe. It was filmed with the characters riding the F train - a fun visual. But in one shot there is a woman sitting in a subway seat behind Jesse Martin... the camera pans away and comes back but she's not there anymore... then the camera returns to that spot a few seconds later and there she is again! Sloppy. Chris Columbus should have had me in the editing room with him.