just give me a sopor for the weekend

Guest blogger: JL of Modern Kicks

I don't know when exactly Kriston is planning on being back, but I'll probably be posting a bit through the weekend. Up here we are now in the midst of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. I haven't yet see any of it, but according to the New York Times, it sucks. I don't know about that; while I can appreciate some of the criticisms the article makes (it's no fun to be treated with contempt or when things don't work), there's an awful lot of different things going on. Any review seems like luck of the draw, really. And I like interactivity in museums! At the Portland Children's Museum Children's Museum of Maine I once found a theremin standing ignored on a lower level. It was the coolest thing ever - I still want one of my own. Of course, as soon as I started doing my freaky spaceoid jams on it, all these little kids came around wanting to play. But they couldn't possibly appreciate it on as many levels as I could. Anyway, I'll make my own very partial judgment on some of the activities in and around Boston soon, I hope. Of course, I said the same thing last week.

Meanwhile, my fellow Grammar.rent-a-cop Dan is off checking out the Chicago fairs. I've been waiting for him to crosspost that, but he's probably still sleeping off his hangover. Cheapest malt liquor in the country in Chicago, you know.