rockin' the East Bay

[trochee]

I was about to write a post about how I'm killing time bored in the hotel in Palo Alto, but then I got a call back from apollinax who has invited me to come to a going-away party in the East Bay for silamander, who is apparently moving south. (apollinax himself is about to start his professorship at Stanford. Woo!)

Hoping not to steal silamander's thunder, but really looking forward to visiting with that crew, which I haven't seen all together for a long time.

Nevertheless, I miss imtboo, who would enjoy the company of many of these people.

Still way behind on livejournal; I'm on Aug 8 right now and moving forward.

Comments

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

Why would you steal his thunder ?

[trochee.livejournal.com]

well, it's a party about him, but if I show up (and I know about half the people) it might look like a party about me. but he's always been pretty cool, so I'm not really worried about that.

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't worry about that.
Everyone will just be happy. Is it tonight ?

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

Fuck dude. I miss you .

[bwb-archive.livejournal.com]

"There’s a rather splendid story about the origin of this most colourful phrase. We know about it because it was recounted by the eighteenth-century actor and playwright Colley Cibber, in his Lives of the Poets, and was also mentioned by Alexander Pope in his poem The Dunciad. The story goes that John Dennis, an actor-manager of the early part of the eighteenth century, had invented a machine to make stage thunder, which he employed in his own play, Appius and Virginia, performed at Drury Lane Theatre in London in 1709. Mr Dennis, whatever his inventive gifts, was a very bad playwright; the play was not a success and was soon taken off in favour of a production of Macbeth by another company. Dennis went to the opening night and was astonished to hear his thunder machine being used. He leapt to his feet and shouted, “That is my thunder, by God; the villains will play my thunder but not my play!”. Like so many successful sayings, it has subsequently been refined and sharpened."

[trochee.livejournal.com]

hee hee!

that's a cool story. and it took me a few minutes to understand why you'd included it. I bet imtboo likes that story too.