I’d not seen Dear Evan Hansen, so I was glad that the Broadway Rose was staging a production.
Ryan Burton did a great job as Evan Hansen, I felt for him and also understood why he had trouble connecting. Cuin Moore was a Connor Murphy that really drew the eye, and my favorite performer was Azhia Ellis as Alana Beck. She has recently moved to Portland from Florida, and I’m hoping to see more of her.
I wanted a somewhat lighter bag for summer. The orange leather one has been a great fall/winter bag, but it was time to lighten up. Enter, this new Maruca bag. It arrived today.
As I was going through the pockets, I found Maruca’s calling card.
And in the back zipper pocket, I also found Emma’s Algebra quiz on factoring???
It amused me, and had me running scenarios as to how Emma’s quiz made it into the bag. I sent the quiz back with a note saying how much I liked the bag and congratulations to Emma, factoring whiz. I heard back from the owner via email more or less immediately after she received the mail. She said:
I wanted to reach out and thank you for the lovely note you sent us. I laughed so hard! Recently I was walking through the warehouse looking at some of my favorite patterns when my daughter came running in to show me her most recent math score. It was a herculean effort on her part and we were so excited! Hugging with such excitement that I totally forgot what I was doing. Emma and I walked back to my office and in all the excitement and silliness I put the test in the bag. Yes, I was wearing it. I randomly test our bags to make sure QC is catching everything. I put the bag on to test fit, zippers and strap and I look for any imperfections.
I also laughed. What a fun random happenstance.
A quick artist trading card made during a meeting…
Never again will I make a cake that requires me to crumble cake and mix it with frosting then mold it into a shape. Never. Again.
The Easter Egg Cake from Serious Eats came out much better than mine did. I would have been better off making the cake that site links to, which has better layers.
The problem started when I didn’t cut the layers correctly, leaving a big gap between the back and front halves of the cake. I ended up cutting the circumference of the back half and mushing up that part of the cake to make some cake spackle to bridge the difference between the high and the low.
Here’s the finished product. I ended up running short on frosting (blame the cake/frosting spackle?) and by the time I got all the crumbs moderately covered, I just sprinkled the sanding sugar on top rather than make a pretty design. I was done.
It didn’t cut nicely in layers, which makes sense as much of it wasn’t a layer but was cake spackle, but it did taste good. Especially with Rick’s homemade ice cream.
Type 1s were one of two of the the Max train cars in use when I moved to Portland. They weren’t very ADA friendly; there were steps to climb up. The Type 2s with their flat entry were the other type.
Reading the TriMet newsletter, I sadly realized that I would not be in Portland for the Type 1 sendoff.
I ordered a Type 1 pin in lieu of going to the sendoff and signing my name on the exterior.
Raygun for the win, as usual.
Artist Blcksmth put out the call for people to take part in creating a message on the No Kings march day that could be seen from space. I didn’t answer that call, but I was happy to see the result.
Friend Kelly was there and reported that it was one of the most organized things she had ever participated in.
Lizard Boy has been kicking around the Pacific Northwest, since 2015, but today was my first viewing.
I am a fan! I’m kind of mad that I didn’t find this musical until now. It’s three actors who carry the whole musical with the normal singing and acting that musical theater people do. But they also provided all the music! And some of the music is provided by a cello. All three (Milo Marami, Lo Steele, and Benjamin Tissell) were incredible.
I will be looking out for other stagings of this one. It didn’t seem to sell well. All remaining tickets were half price the final weekend, which isn’t a good sign, but maybe that deal got a few more people in the doors.
I previously enjoyed Benjamin Tissell’s performance as Andrew in Recent Tragic Events at Third Rail Rep.
Our day started at the corner of 39th and Hawthorne, where Matt was a corner captain. I held a sign made by the Indivisible D2 art team.
There was a really good turnout at all four corners. More than two hundred people on each corner.
This lady had my favorite wordy sign.
From there, Matt took the bus down to the waterfront, and I drove the car home, had some lunch, and then took the train down to the waterfront.
I met up with Matt who had the signs, and we caught up with the puppets. There were three puppets in our group: Stephen Miller:
Trump (front):
Trump (back):
And RFK Jr., who I was mostly walking nearby and didn’t get a picture of until the end.
Our signs were playing cards with different members of the administration on the. You can see a few of them in the pictures with the puppets.
Because I was carrying a sign, I had fewer hands free to take photos. But this yellow sign was my favorite graphic protest sign:
I also like that the woman with a huge camera is looking straight at my camera.
I’m always on the lookout for good protest fashion and this was the best outfit I saw. I love the hat, the casual skirt and blouse, the knee socks and the comfortable shoes. Well done, random protester.
It was a gorgeous day for a protest.
Friends Greg and Renee are throwing a masquerade mystery party for Renee’s fortieth birthday, and we have been invited! Greg and Renee are precision people and thus this is not the first invitation we received. In January, we got an electronic invitation that made us promise to show up if we RSVP’d yes. Everyone has to come in order for the mystery to work!
So now we are officially invited and have our characters. Matt: The stallion! Me: the mouse.
While I’m not super feeling the mouse character, I am super excited to assemble my mouse costume. My goals are: (1) cheap to obtain the materials and (2) as much of it as rewearable as possible and (3) mostly made by me.
I’ve already got some ideas and am excited to get started.
