Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Dan's Letter


Dan's Letter
Originally uploaded by Jeremy & Susanne
Dan wrote a sad letter. He doesn't let his lack of spelling knowledge cramp his style.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Valentine's Day

A week or so before Valentine's Day we got a list of all of the children in each of the boys' classes sent home with them. The first time this happened we were confused, but now we understand. If one sends a Valentine, one has to send a valentine to every child in the class, regardless of gender. And a valentine isn't a card, it's usually a small sweet of some sort (or candy, as we have to call it now). So Valentine's day becomes a day when the boys bring a vast amount of chocolate home with them, and eat it until they feel sick. So Valentine's day and Halloween, which are theoretically pretty different are actually very similar.

Here's their stash of stuff:

Valentine's Day, 2009

Ana made a special Valentine for Alex:
Valentine's Day, 2009

And one for Dan:
Valentine's Day, 2009

(Notice that Dan's doesn't say the L word. And that Dan ate his M&M's before I got a chance to take a photo).

Dan made a Valentine's for me, in the form of a book.

It says: "All about me. By Daniel. And Valentines".

Valentine's Day, 2009
"I am Daniel and I am 6????? [Can anyone translate? Click picture to embiggen.] I have a brother. My!!! [Possibly me?] All about Valentine's. We give hearts to other people. Here is the Valentine for you. From Dan."

"The End."

I never found out what was in the little package - when I saw it next it had been opened, and presumably consumed.

Hangin' Out




Yesterday was (as you probably know) Valentine's Vay, so the boys went to someone's house (who foolishly offered to babysit) and we went to the theater to see a musical called: Hangin' Out. Or, to give its full title: Hangin' Out: A New Musical Revue in the Nude, at the Macha Theatre, in West Hollywood.

It was a series of songs, all of which related to being naked, sung by six people, who were naked, and accompanied by a pianist, who was clothed. Many of the songs were about being naked, with titles like "I'm Naked", and "Birthday Suit" (My birthday suit, my birthday suit, I look so cute in my birthday suit). Others had a fairly sexual theme - like "A duet for one" (you can probably work out what that was about) or a choral styled song about Saint Viagra.

The Macha Theatre was very small - it claims to have 99 seats, but I could only count 85, and almost every play there is produced by, written by, directed by, and stars Odalys Nanin (who also seems to be a realtor when she has a few seconds spare). It is, apparently, the only Latina lesbian theatre in the country, and it runs as a non-profit organization.

There wasn't a great deal to link the songs, and I couldn't work out any order to them. They were sung by varying numbers of people - I think each person did at least one on their own, and there were songs by all 6, by all the men, and by all the women, and some other combinations.

The whole thing was very well done, and mostly very funny (I thought that the couple of romantic songs in the second half didn't work quite so well), and the performers were good at singing, and seemed pretty comfortable, considering that they had no clothes on, and were about 4 feet from the front row. The best endowed male, in particular, was good at dancing with the correct rhythm to get, errrmmm, a good pendulum action going.

Friday, February 13, 2009

A very silly thing

I haven't posted much recently, 'cos we're buying a house, and it's a bit time consuming. I'll try to soon. But for now, here's something very silly.
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