3:00 snapshot #1239

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In this snapshot from the weekend, Alexis rolls herself a cigarette after having planted veggie seeds in the starter pots. In the background, a broken picket in our fence gate taunts me.  But hey guess what we did last night?



We went to the taping of NPR's Ask Me Another! We've been excited about the show since Jonathan Coulton first announced that he was a part of it. I was very critical of it when it first started, but I've listened to every episode as a podcast. Part of my criticism had to do with host Ophira Eisenberg, (I just had to backwards anagram "her ripe begonias" to get close to spelling her name right) I didn't think she had good flow. But seeing her live was revelatory--she improvises very well, handles difficult guests with aplomb, and has polite but authoritative control of the stage.

Here she is preparing to interview Barney Frank, who got massive applause, especially when his work for gay rights was mentioned. He quipped that when he became a congressman in 1981 it was not acceptable to be a gay man in public life, but when he retired last year, his same sex marriage was respectable--but being a member of congress is very unpopular.

JoCo played "The Future Soon" as a full length warmup, a short version of "Brookline," and the first bit of the Pixies' "Here Comes Your Man" (after the Barney Frank segment).