time and relative dimension in space

Michael Mercogliano, owner of Mike's Pastry, has died.

This probably means nothing to most of you, but Mike's Pastry is one of my favorite places in Boston. I mean, it's a landmark institution; it's just not a trip to Boston if you don't stop at Mike's for cannoli.

I expect not much will change for the bakery on a day-to-day level, since apparently his son's been running it for a while now, but this definitely marks a major day in Boston history.

I applaud you, Michael Mercogliano; you changed a city.

And so.

( last night as I slept, I dreamt I met with Behan; I shook him by the hand and we passed the time of day ) OMG SO WORTH IT I LOVE MY BAND SO MUCH.

( March 20 - March 23 in review )

I miss Massachusetts already.

The concert review is going to go up shortly, and I'm going to take some time replying to comments and going back through my flist and things like that. I might miss stuff so if there's something that happened this weekend that you think I should know about, drop a comment or a link or whatnot.

I missed you!

So far today I've called Artist Arena to switch my concert tickets to the Friday show, sent off resume/references/letter to three theaters with job openings (an ME position, an assistant ME position, and a light board op position), and submitted "The End Of The Road (Is The Beginning Of Your Life)" to fic_tossed for a review. It's kind of sad that the most recent Whofic I've written was in September '07.

And! Artist Arena just e-mailed me again to tell me that the deal's been upgraded and now they'll be refunding the full cost of the tickets, so I'll be going to see the Friday show free of charge. Which is kind of awesome, yo. I mean it's not awesome that they're this desperate to get people to switch to Friday, and I feel bad for the people who can't switch and who might wind up getting turned away from the door on Saturday, and HoB kind of sucks for overselling their show, but I'm going to see the Pogues for no cost. That's kind of awesome.

Also that one Harper vid I was talking about several posts a month or so ago is very nearly done.

All in all, a good day so far.

Anyway, I just got off the phone with Artist Arena about the Pogues concert -- apparently the House of Blues oversold the Saturday show by accident. To try to fix that problem, they're offering a deal (to the presale customers, like me, first) -- 50% rebate on your tickets if you agree to go see the Friday show instead.

I gotta talk to my dad before I agree to this -- given that we'll be spending all of Friday morning on a plane, he might not be amiable to immediately turning around and hitting a concert -- but as long as I get to see my Shane in Boston I don't much care when it is.

Just over two weeks to go until Boston, in any case.

*flails a bit*

I will be in Boston March 20 - March 23. Will anyone else be in the area? Right now the only solid plans we've got are for the concert Saturday night (SHAAAAANE); we're looking at other stuff to do, and planning to do some tourist-y things, but I wouldn't mind meeting up with someone.


There's been some serious fail over at fanficrants recently. Why is that?


Can I be slightly narcissistic for a minute here? I got a positive review today on "In The Mood", and OMG, you have no idea how flattered I am that I'm still getting reviews on that fic almost two years later. I'm really proud of it, and I know how egotistical that sounds, but it's really a big mood-booster.


You know what? Prior to today, I'm fairly sure I hadn't heard Brooks & Dunn's "Boot-Scootin' Boogie" for years (and I gotta say? I didn't miss it). But I've heard it three times today. Why?

On a brighter musical note, today I walked into a store and they were playing Flogging Molly's "Kings Of The Kilburn High", and I had glee.

> Teh Niki's definitely out of the Boston trip. :( I'm gonna call the airline and cry at them and see if they'll transfer one of the plane tickets to a different name, since I already know I can't get a refund. If I can, I'll transfer her ticket to my dad's name. No go - tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable. Blah. Going to try to get my dad to scrape up the cash for his own ticket. Tickets bought! Managed to get him on the same flights. :) Going to Boston with my dad won't be the same, but dammit, I'm going to Boston and I'm going to see my Shane if there's any possible way I can make this trip work.

> Today I logged into and updated my fic journal for the first time since...November, and miniNaNo. Uhm. Yay, me? At least I finally did something.

> My W-2s finally arrived today! So maybe I can get some money back! Yay!

> Awesome thing: lgbtfest. Go, join, prompt, wait to claim, whatever. It's got some awesome prompts already.

> ARD is still pretty much the highlight of my day. Almost done with book #5 right now. I love these guys to a ridiculous degree.

> Westley's a dick.