Mom is here visiting for the weekend, I'll take her back to the airport tonight. NWA had some good deals this weekend, so she flew down. I had class on Saturday, and behold it turned out John came down with strep throat. He was falling asleep during the day, which he never does, and crawled into bed by himself and fell asleep, which he only does when he's sick, so it seemed something was amiss. Rhonda took him to a clinic, and now he's on some antibiotics.

Yesterday was a milestone of sorts. I took John to his first movie in a theater! I took him to the Pooh/Heffalump movie. It was cute. John enjoyed it, laughed at some parts and was a little bored in other spots. It was mostly about Roo and his newfound friend the Heffalump, Lumpy. Lumpy steals the show, voiced by a (then) 5-yr old British boy.

Since Mom as here to watch the kiddies, Saturday night Rhonda and I went out. We first had a wonderful meal at Babani's, then saw the play "The Violet Hour" at the Park Square Theater. The play is by Richard Greenberg, who won a Tony for "Take Me Out". It was an enjoyable. A publisher just starting out in 1919 somehow receives delivery of a strange machine. He is trying to decide whether he should publish the novel written by his secret paramour, an older black woman, or publish the sprawling novel of his good friend. The strange machine starts spitting out pages and pages, which turn out to be from books published in the future. The publisher discovers the consequences of choices he will make, or might make.

I always enjoy productions at the Park Square. They do a good job with sets. (Out the window of the office set, we see a New York cityscape, but given the title, I would think the sky should be more of a violet, not the blue we saw.)

You've probably seen these commercials on TNT where they ask "What is drama?", and a host of actors furrow their eyebrows and try to out-pretentious the other. Well, I have my own thoughts on the answer to that question, and slight variations on the question.

What is....

comedy - when someone else steps on a rake and it hits them in the forehead
drama - when you step on a rake and it hits you in the forehead
romance - a boy and a girl meet when they both step on a rake at the same time and it hits them in the forehead
science fiction - a rake hits you in the forehead, and then you step on it
mystery - someone hits you in the forehead with a rake
documentary - examines the physics involved, specifically angular momentum and torque, when someone steps on a rake
history - examines prehistoric rakes discovered in the Lo River valley