We just returned from Alpharetta (in the suburbs of Atlanta) where we attended the This American Life Live broadcast. I'm a huge fan of the Public Radio show, This American Life and what we saw tonight was a live show broadcast to movie theaters throughout the country.
Some venues sold out but the Alpharetta movie theater only had about 50 people. The show was great - extremely moving at times as well as very funny. However, in my opinion, the highlight of the show was seeing Ira Glass being so cutely cumudgeonly at the sound board...can't see that on the radio! Oh - yes - one quirk in the evening was the satellite dropped out for about 10 minutes during what turned out to be a thunderstorm. Luckily, the cartoon that got interupted will be put on the website.Another highlight of the show was Josh Whedon doing his first live musical performance of one of the songs in the "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" director's commendy. Apparently, the whole director's commentary is done in song. We hadn't heard that, previously, and now plan to buy the DVD when we get a chance. Here's more on the Dr. Horrible phenomen.
Other stuff we did today was to celebrate our first day of warm weather by exchanging our summmer and winter clothing in the RV storage, replace my paddle lost in the kayak excitement (see post below), pick up a few things at the huge new Alpharetta Costco and I got my first pedicure of the season. Tomorrow we're off to Dothan, GA to visit with our friends Lynne and Rob. We haven't seen them in two years so it will be SO GREAT to see them!!
