I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes

Well, first, some shameless promotion of others: two cool things I'm going to. This Thursday night, ( Jews in Science Fiction, brought to you by The Future Rabbi Josh Breindel ). And Saturday afternoon ( is the closing matinee of MITG&SP's Pirates of Penzance. )

Now the self-promotion:

This Saturday night, December 13th, my first official vocal recording will be released: Honorable Menschen's debut album, By the River. I sing solos on 2 of the 12 tracks. Plus I designed the cover and all the associated graphics. Thus, if you are a fan of me, you should own this album. ;-) Also, there's a concert. The concert is free. FREE! With FREE REFRESHMENTS! Come on down to tremontstshul [directions here] between 8pm and 10pm! And if you pre-order a CD and come to the concert to pick it up, you can save a couple bucks over buying it in cash that evening. -- Or if you simply can't make the concert, but expect to be in Boston anytime in the next 6 weeks, you can still pre-order it "for pickup" and I'll hand-deliver it to you, saving you the shipping, because I love you. (Or else you can feel free to wait and buy it on iTunes later. Yes, really. I'll post the link to that when it's up.)

This Sunday, December 14th, there is a Chanukah Art & Craft Fair where I will be selling MuffinButtons as well as my Judaic graphic artwork (and, yes, Honorable Menschen CDs, and I might have Falling August CDs to give away if you ask in advance). And mizarchivist and anotherjen and chaiya [in absentia] and red_queen and many other cool people will all be displaying and selling their cool stuff. Admission is free. FREE! With FREE REFRESHMENTS! Come on down to tremontstshul [directions here] between 10:30am and 1:30pm!

Lastly, for you northwest suburbanites, the Menschen are also performing next Friday night 12/19 at Temple Emanuel in Andover. 6:30pm! We're probably performing in Chelsea the morning of Sunday 12/21, as well -- ping me if you want details on that.

... or "So, Erica, what ARE you going to do with your Copious Free Time now that you are freed of wedding planning forevermore??"

REVISED for additions and clarity, 9/11/08

September:

THU 09/11, 6:30-8:30pm: tremontstshul Fall Kickoff BBQ

FRI 09/12, 8pm (zoom over after shul): Closing weekend of MTG's Into the Woods (starring jmspencer).

SAT 09/13, 8pm: Jesus Christ Superstar, starring cycon, at St. Paul's Parish Hall (26 Washington St.) in Malden. Sept 12, 13, 14 at 8pm; tickets $15. I pretty much have to go the Saturday night, due to standing Friday and Sunday conflicts. Anyone interested? (Mr. chanaleh, even if he were interested, will be doing the Retrocogitator Puzzle Challenge.)

SUN 09/14, 10:30am-12n: tremontstshul Pre-High-Holiday Open House.

WED 09/17, 6:30-8:00 pm: Celebrate The Macallan: free Scotch tasting! Back Bay Events Center (180 Berkeley St., Boston). gilana and ablock are definitely going; I'm hoping to join them (caveat: if my practical obligations do not overwhelm).

SAT 09/20: Six Flags with ablock (with 9/27 and 11/1 as backup dates). ETA: I have been alerted [waves to tahamill!] that this date is reserved for Out in the Park. As tickets are being sold publicly, however, we're TOTALLY still going. Though maybe not in drag costume particularly. :-) (Note further: apparently this is actually controversial, hmm. I think we're buying the online tickets and going regardless -- it could be really fascinating, but at minimum it should be unusually un-crowded.)

ETA: SUN 09/21: The Salem Pirate Faire with gilana, smacaski, and shumashi. In costume. Clearly, any gossiping to be done will have to take place in pirate-speak. Arrrr!

SAT 09/27, 8pm: Recital by heliopsis and friends, First Congregational Church of Somerville (89 College Ave., Davis Sq).

SUN 09/28, 2pm: Romeo and Juliet, starring the inimitable justom, with Hovey Players in Waltham, 9/19-10/4. The only Sunday matinee is 9/28, so although a bunch of Firsties appear to be going the first weekend, I shall hang back and go with gilana and friends. It's an intimate 52-seat house, so we need to order tickets pronto. Who's with us?

MON 9/29: Erev Rosh Hashanah at tremontstshul (where I get to spend the entire High Holidays with my husband, yay! because I gave up the Swampscott choir gig this year)

TUE 9/30: 2nd-night R"H dinner chez ablock

( not to mention fitting in a dozen or so other obligations and opportunities before the end of this month )

October:
( Does anyone but me really need to look this far ahead on my calendar? srsly. )

I'm fairly certain there are things already getting scheduled into my last week of October, but I'll be buggered if I have written any of them down so far. :-}

I have successfully completed my first day of work. :-)

Meet me for drinks at Orleans (Holland St. in Davis Sq.) at 8:15pm to celebrate.

Those observing Talk Like A Pirate Day may order grog.

Happy birthday, skreeky!! -- And lucretia_borgia, and apparently rikchik'n'cnoocy. Wow.

And also, it is Chanukah. *glow* I went to the MIT lighting of the test-tube menorah. No blowtorch, though.

... OMG have I been busy. I mean, when I say that, you know it's serious. My house is a total shambles and I haven't bought but two Xmas gifts (and one Chanukah one* that I gave tonight). Largely it's because work is so insane. (Though not so insane that I couldn't decorate my [office] door with a serious, not to say strident, Hebrew-school-style Chanukah display for the office party tomorrow afternoon. Let's just say it incorporates Al ha-Nisim -- including Bimei Matityahu. I had fun.)

*Actually, there's also the one I bought myself: a doumbek (finally!). It is cobalt blue ceramic. I am inordinately pleased. I have a proper drum! Not just a lame-o tambourine!

Sunday's art show went well. I sold some stuff -- and not only that... ten pairs of my earrings are now in the Out of the Blue Gallery next door to my house. (Deb Priestly came to the show and bought two pairs from me and offered to take more on consignment. Yay!)

And jessruth's visit was great, except for it getting cut short by half because her new nephew had the audacity to arrive half a day before his scheduled delivery. Doesn't he know about Jewish Standard Time yet? Sheesh. ;-)

Oh yeah, so, this Saturday:
(1) Pirates of Penzance outing to the 12/11 matinee (2pm) at HRG&SP. Please reconfirm if you wish me to order you a ticket. ( list behind this cut, currently up to 8 )
(2) See me and ladypsyche perform with Honorable Menschen at a Tremont St. Chanukah concert! 7:30-8:30pm at Temple Beth Shalom. All are welcome to attend.

And then there's Shabbat dinner and the Lord Chancellor's housewarming -- both Friday -- and all the assorted Chanukah madness... but never mind that for now. For now I am going to read Coraline (one of several charming little gifts tonight) and go to sleep before it is terribly late, so that I can get up tomorrow and do it all over again.

( I can't make this stuff up. )

Saw Murder (yay!), but missed Anything Goes (boo). Stopped by ceo and gosling's for what should have been only a few minutes, except that then I got my shoulders and forearms blissfully liquified by nacht_musik, whom I owe big time.

7am call for mitgsp light hang tomorrow. Bed now.