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Top 5

Top five from San Diego
Well, the first two days.
1. Watching Two present at TedMed!
2. Our private audiences with David Blaine and the "ExperiMentalist" (quarters were bent [by the touch of a finger], plants bounced [with MIND POWERS], brothers hypnotized [no matter how he tried, Brother Z could not tear my fingers apart], and maps unwrapped. . . again, by mind powers).
3. Visiting the 14 month old panda at the San Diego Zoo.
4. Sitting next to Martha Stewart at the inaugural session of TedMed. . .well, she was four seats away.
5. Touching a pig lung--kept alive for a day (!) on a new machine that will inevitably improve the quality of organs used for transplantation.


Stay tuned for more from San Diego!

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HalloWINNER!

Yesterday I left work in a rather dark mood. One of my coworkers had done something especially loathsome. Luckily I had some powerful forces helping keep my mood bright. There was my dear old friends Mother Nature and Lady Autumn came to the rescue with gorgeous weather. The good folks of Georgetown, and their outlandish Halloween decorations. Teabelly, with her support and indignation. And--of course--Dr. P. who does an amazing job of being WAY angrier than I am when someone gets on my nerves. Thank you all dear ones! I love you guys.


Here are some loads of pics of the ever festive Georgetown. I'm usually not a fan of scary decorations, but I think there was something cathartic about them yesterday...

(I've arranged the photos in order from Charming to Alarming abandon ship at your leisure)

this pumpkin must have weighed 300 lbs



Ghosts are cute, right?


Technically not Halloween decorations, but rather apropos...

Spiders were evidently very in this year. The one on the left took up the entire side of a house!


Here the right one was about 8 ft. across.


I realize he's flawed, but you know I have a thing for doctors!








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TED-y to go

So...

There are these conferences called TED conferences. I am opening one THIS afternoon at 5 pm in San Diego CA -- say a little prayer for me! For more on the conference, click here.

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Enterprising Equine Efforts

Last weekend, Momo was able to snag tickets to the widely publicized horse and pony show put on by the frogs. . . I mean, folks. . . who organize Cirque Du Soleil. Being the dedicated blogger that I am, I *cough Four cough* realized that this would be great opportunity to offer Five readership an exclusive pictorial plunge into the closely guarded* sensation that is
CAVALIA
(sorry, Courier is the most enigmatic font that Blogger offers.)



 *Closely guarded refers to the 'No Pictures/Videos/Macaroni Portraits' policy that is strictly enforced at all performances of Cavalia. Subsequently, your exclusive look will be a composite of clip art, prehistoric-19th century oil paintings, and out-of-date circus posters.
Enjoy!


ACT I
Act I started with the agonizingly graphic birth of a foal.
For those of you wondering, witnessing horse birth is a bad item
for a bucket list. . .
. . . it's bad because it's gross.
The looks on the faces above are not ones of joy, but of abject horror.
Horse trotting
Tumblers!
Horse and large ball
SPECTACULAR STUNTS!
INTERMISSION

ACT II
Splendorous feats!!!
Pastoral trotting
Remarkable trapeze/horse action!
Many horses galloping!!!

APPLAUSE!!! Applause! APPLAUSE!!!!

A note to those who have seen Cavalia: I realize that my pictures may not have done it justice (pfffft, thanks a lot, Google *derisive snort*). I will point out that the photos are only meant to serve as a springboard for your imagination. . . Cavalia can be whatever you imagine it to be!

They've really got to get some curlier scripts, gosh darn it.

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