All That Glitters 132

A look at how I've been diverting myself lately.

Books
READ: Star Island by Carl Hiaasen [Michael Grunwald, reviewing a previous Hiaasen novel: "Carl Hiaasen is South Florida's literary proctologist: he examines the region's assholes"].

Plays
SAW: Spring Awakening (Phoenix Theatre) [in Indianapolis].

Movies
SAW: Moneyball.
LAST WEEK'S MOVIE NIGHT PICKS:
MINE: Country Strong.
KITO'S: Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
[It wasn't one of our best efforts.]
THIS WEEK'S THEME: The South.

Music
LISTENED TO: Fleetwood Mac, Rumours; Gillian Welch, The Harrow and the Harvest [I've had "Hard Times" stuck in my head for three days].

Television
WATCHING: Glee (Fox), Top Chef: Just Desserts (Bravo), Community (NBC), Parks and Recreation (NBC), Project Runway (Lifetime), The Good Wife (CBS).

Current Interests
Poo, Betty White, movies, writers, conservatives, tabloid fixtures, cities, female pop stars.

Fool's Four
THE LAST FOUR SHOWS I SAW:
1. The Argument (Interrobang, 10.9).
2. Caesura: A Butchery (The Plagiarists, 10.5).
3. Spring Awakening (Phoenix Theatre, 10.1).
4. Burying Miss America (New Leaf Theatre, 9.30).

A Flashback
FIVE YEARS AGO: "Is it me, or am I getting gayer?"

Glitter
In honor of my older sister, whose birthday is today, here's a song we used to sing together all the time when we were little.

(If you're just joining us, I'm a homosexual.)