Ephemera 2022

First, there is a new kitten named Skugge living here.  She is all the sweetness and chaos.  We miss Mushkin, but we felt the house needed someone and this was a rescue opportunity.

Live Shows & Concerts

An Evening With Bruce Dickinson - March 6 - Moore Theatre

Bernadette Peters - April 2 - Paramount Theatre

Hadestown - May 7 - Walter Kerr Theatre
Plaza Suite - May 7 - Hudson Theatre
Six - May 8 - Brooks Atkinson Theatre

Drunk Shakespeare Society (MacBeth) - May 8 - The Gallery at Green Fig 

Professor Brian Cox: Horizons: A 21st Century Space Odyssey - June 7 - Moore Theatre

Come From Away - July 26 - 5th Avenue Theatre 

Iron Maiden / Trivium - September 29 - Climate Pledge Arena
George Balanchine's The Nutcracker - December 7 - McCaw Hall (Pacific Northwest Ballet) 

Trips

SEA-SFO RT (Plane) 2/12-13

SEA-CHI RT (Plane) 4/7-11

SEA-NYC RT (Plane) 5/6-9

SEA-DC RT (Plane) 10/28-30 (3 flights)

SEA-PDX RT (Plane/Bus*) 12/25-26*

(return flight cancelled and turned into a long bus day)

SEA-PDX RT (Train) 6/4-5

SEA-BAI (Ferry) 3/12 - 7/2 

Whidbey (Ferry) 7/31

Orcas-ANA (Ferry) 10/7-9

Movies in the Theatre

Spider-Man: No Way Home

The Batman

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Thor: Love and Thunder

Black Adam

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Live Events & Conventions (Work)

Star Trek: Mission Chicago 

Emerald City Comic Con

PAX West

Child's Play Charity Auction

Sports & Soccer (media & fan)

(+ ongoing virtual work with OLR)

OLR 1 PTFC 1 - 03/18 Lumen Field - Seattle, WA - NWSL Challenge Cup

OLR 3 SDWFC 1 - 04/14  Lumen Field - Seattle, WA - NWSL Challenge Cup

OLR 2 ACFC 1 - 04/17  Lumen Field - Seattle, WA - NWSL Challenge Cup

OLR 0 WASH 0 - 5/22 Lumen Field - Seattle, WA - NWSL Regular Season

OLR 1 SDWFC 0 - 5/29 Lumen Field - Seattle, WA - NWSL Regular Season

OLR 1 ACFC 0 - 6/18 Lumen Field - Seattle, WA - NWSL Regular Season

OLR 2 NCC 0 - 7/1 Lumen Field - Seattle, WA - NWSL Regular Season

OLR 2 PTFC 2 - 7/10 Lumen Field - Seattle, WA - NWSL Regular Season

OLR 1 HOU 2 - 8/7 Lumen Field - Seattle, WA - NWSL Regular Season

OLR 4 GFC 1 - 8/14 Lumen Field - Seattle, WA - NWSL Regular Season

OLR 2 CHI 2 - 9/9 Lumen Field - Seattle, WA - NWSL Regular Season

OLR 3 ORL 0 - 10/1 Lumen Field - Seattle, WA - NWSL Regular Season

OLR 0 KCC 2 - 10/23 Lumen Field - Seattle, WA - NWSL Semifinals

PTFC 2 KCC 0 - 10/29 Audi Field - Washington, DC - NWSL Championship

SSFC 3 SKC 0 - 6/25 Lumen Field - Seattle, WA - MLS Regular Season

WWU 2 WCU 1 - 12/3 Interbay - Seattle, WA - NCAA DII Championship

Interesting Things/Museums & Exhibits

Imagine Picasso: The Immersive Exhibition 2/12 Skylight at the Armory San Francisco

Musee Mechanique 2/13

Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures 5/7 NYPL

Geek Xtravaganza: A Unique Geek Shopping Event! 7/16 Angel of the Winds Arena Conference Center

A.P.E.S. 7/31

Bison Antiquus Exhibit 10/8 Orcas Island Historical Museum 

Ford's Theatre Historical Site & Museum 10/30

Seattle Saberfit

Skugge

SF in February

Bruce 

Bainbridge

OLR v PTFC 3/18

Bernadette Peters 4/2

Star Trek Mission Chicago (4/8-10)

Hadestown

Plaza Suite

Six

NYPL

The Scottish Play

Professor Brian Cox

Summer camps

SSFC v SKC June 25

Virtual Media Work

Come From Away 

A.P.E.S. on Whidbey

w/ WUCL trophy

ECCC

PAX West

Old Friends

Iron Maiden / Trivium

Orcas Island in October

DC in October

NWSL Championship

Dinner with friends

WWU 2 WCU 1 NCAA DII Championship

McCaw Hall

Child's Play Charity Auction

Saberfit

PDX

Reading List 2022

The 2022 reading list is a decent list, even if for me it doesn't feel like I read as much. 

Fiction

Critical Role: Vox Machina - Kith & Kin by Marieke Nijkamp

The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield

Noor by Nnedi Okorafor

Come Endless Darkness by Gary Gygax

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

The Actual Star by Monica Byrne

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Brute of All Evil by Devon Monk

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

The Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

The Halloween Moon by Joseph Fink

Arabella Grimsbro Vs. the "Wonderful" Wizard by Matt Youngmark (& L. Frank Baum)

Wayward Sky by Devon Monk 

Short Fiction

My Evil Mother by Margaret Atwood
The Last Mile (Avery Cates) by Jeff Somers

Oak and Ink by Devon Monk

Randomize by Andy Weir

The Black Pages by Nnedi Okorafor

Box of Oxen by Alan Dean Foster

The Ghost Fleet (Avery Cates) by Jeff Somers

Gaming

The Wild Beyond The Witchlight by Wizards RPG Team

Fizban's Treasury of Dragons by Wizards RPG Team
Chronicles of Darkness by Onyx Path Publishing
Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn by Matt Mercer et al

Coyote & Crow Core Rulebook

Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep by Wizards RPG Team & Critical Role

Poetry/Collections/Papers/Essays/Children's Books/Cookbooks/Misc

Sand and Foam by Kahlil Gibran

Non-Fiction/Biography

I Am Fun Size, And So Are YOU! The Book! by Anjali Bhimani

Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent by Anthony Rapp

Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir by Wil Wheaton

Graphic Novels/TPB

Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins: Jester Lavorre by Sam Maggs & Hunter Severn Bonyun
Batman: Masque by Mike Grell
Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins: Caleb Widogast by Jody Houser et al
Witch For Hire by Ted Naifeh
Tuki: Fight For Fire (Volume 2) by Jeff Smith
Elfquest: Stargazer's Hunt (Volume 2) by Wendy & Richard Pini

Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins: Yasha Nydoorin by Cecil Castellucci & William Kirkby

The Last Ronin by Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird et al

Saga: Volume One by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples

Re-reads

High Society by Dave Sim

Cruel Shoes by Steve Martin

10 year old me remembers

 When I turned ten years old it was 1977.

1977 was the expansion year of the Seattle Mariners.  During that summer I got to see the New York Yankees come to town.  The 77 Yankees are legendary in baseball lore.  It was an amazing game the M's actually won.

1977 was when Star Wars was released.  I got to see it in the theatre.  I got the novel and the comics and was listening to the condensed movie on vinyl over and over.

1977 also was the summer where I got to see Pele. Twice. In July in Seattle in the old Kingdome and the Sounders won 1-0.  It was amazing. The next month I was in Portland with the family as the Cosmos defeated the Sounders 2-1 in the Soccer Bowl in what was Pele's final regular match.  Exhibitions would follow, but as a competitive player that was it.

Pele passed this week.  He is still the GOAT.  

RIP Edson.

Another Championship Match

 Western Washington University Vikings 2

West Chester University Golden Rams 1

NCAA DII Championship

Interbay Stadium - Seattle, WA

December 3, 2022