Cyberdancing

Sometimes I'm glad I have a timeshare in Vegas...

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 23:37:17 GMT

Bonjour sam,

I am excited to tell you about our incredible partnership with Apple Corps Ltd. and The Mirage to develop a new resident show in Las Vegas which will celebrate the musical legacy and extraordinary experience of The Beatles. This historic project was born out of a friendship between the late George Harrison and Guy Laliberté.

This is the very first time that Apple Corps Ltd. has agreed to partner on a live theatre production and we are very proud to be a part of this wonderful experience. Gilles Ste-Croix, Vice President of Creation and New Project Development at Cirque du Soleil, has revealed that Dominic Champagne, writer-director of Varekai and ZUMANITY, will be deeply involved with the production and The Beatles producer Sir George Martin himself will be overseeing the musical elements of the show.

Our fifth resident show in Las Vegas will be a unique and magical voyage revisiting all the excitement of Beatlemania and is set to begin at the The Mirage in 2006. There is a little more for you to discover about this new partnership but no information on dates, tickets or performances yet. Not to worry though, I'll make sure to fill you in as soon as I know anything.

Au revoir!

Anne-Josée
Cirque Club Ringmaster
Cirque du Soleil

PS: To receive further updates about this new production, please update your Cirque Club profile.

Sunday Brunch

Mon, 27 Sep 2004 00:29:55 GMT

1) If you had a wedding, what flowers did you have at your wedding? Daisies

2) What is your favorite flower? Daisies

3) Do you have flowers as part of your landscaping outside or your interior decor? Daisies
(also impatiens, iris, mums, daylilies...) and lest I forget, "Cowgirl" the dieffenbachia babe

4) If you went to your high school prom(s), what kind of flower did you wear in your corsage or boutonniere? a bluish carnation one year? (I dunno, ask Mae's father) and one of those wrist thingies with tiny blue roses the next. Same dress!! I hated that kind of crap. Well, and I went as a freshman in NJ, too, but I have no clue what I wore. Since I almost forgot who the date was, how do you expect me to remember what flowers I got?

5) Do you like to receive flowers as a gift or do you think it is a waste of money?
I love flowers as a gift

Sentimental Scalzi Assignment

Fri, 17 Sep 2004 21:32:26 GMT

Headline:
Cyberdancer Does Not Dance
at her own wedding! Ahh, you're thinking, broken leg? against the religion? Nope. Just no formal reception. We bought some champagne and a cake at the grocery store that day, put on some records, threw a bouquet and a garter, but I don't remember dancing...

So instead of regaling you with the story of what that Bride & Groom dance was, I'll tell ya about the hippie songs that were part of our actual wedding ceremony.

...which was in a Catholic church and everything! We did have a reading from the scripture, but we also did a duet reading (drama queen and king, don't forget) from The Prophet and e.e.cummings, I think. I honestly don't remember. We were both nervous wrecks, and my Oral Interp professor from the previous (Spring) semester gave us a B- on the delivery. Another couple (male and female) also did a dramatic reading as they joined the Best Man (Joe's nephew, one year younger, who also made our rings, but not for that day--I keep promising to tell that story...) and Maid of Honor (my sister, who you will recall had married me previously --17 years previous, to be precise). That was pretty cool. At least, I thought so at the rehearsal. So much blurs in the bliss of the moment. Joe's nephew 2 years younger was the guitarist--our version of organist-- at our wedding. He played from the choir loft, out of sight, instrumental versions of the rock songs of the day. All I know is that he played Arlo Guthrie's lilting melody "Alice's Restaurant" as my processional:
"You can get anything you like...."

and the Beatles' "Two of Us"
"...riding nowhere..." as our recessional!

In the midst of the ceremony our friend Cheryl sang "A Time for Us" from the Zefferelli version of Romeo and Juliet, very popular that year. Romantic, huh? She would go on to become an opera singer in the very home of opera, Rome. Ken continues to play guitar in rock band after rock band.

And 30+ years later, the two terrible readers can be heard humming,

"We’re going home.
You and I have memories
Longer than the road that stretches out ahead..."
~~ex"Two of Us," The Beatles

To be fair, I think we did dance at our impromptu BYOB reception. Probably to "Light my Fire"... but maybe not with each other, come to think of it.

Okay, okay, Vegas won...

Sun, 19 Sep 2004 02:11:44 GMT

The Elemental Committee needs some help! We still have openings for:

Star

Moon

Earth

...preferably from the many folks who want to convene in Sin City. (That'd be me, too, you see....) As you may or may not have noticed, the current committee has an overwhelming desire to set up a confluence in Atlantic City.

We are going to go ahead and do that and we're saying the 13th--
but many of us are more than willing to help others set up a Las Vegas Convention, too-- on an alternate date in August.

Just a little smooch to those who also voted heavily for New Orleans & St. Louis -- maybe those should be the convention cities for 2006?

Now.... on to the voting for Vegas dates in August, 2005 (I'm starting)

Please leave your preferences in this convenient comment box and I'll update!

August 6 August 13 August 20 August 27

2 (reserved for AC) 1 1

A Busybody? Not Moi!

Sat, 25 Sep 2004 03:29:05 GMT

OldDog made me do it. There's no way I am a gossip-monger. Is there?

Category XI - The
Quidnunc
Though you don't fit in, and your social graces are
sometimes lacking, people like you because you
have all the information. Now, who won the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1952?

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Albert Schweitzer, by the way.

5 more days to get your votes in for locale....

Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:03:58 GMT

As votes come in from the committee for best Weekend, we'll post photos here ...
Click here to check the tallies and/or vote for location!

I'm gonna list committee faces here, their personal votes for locale, & preferred date in August, starting, naturally, with Windswift1 & Sunflowerkat321 & moi, who started it all-- though Vivian, Gregg, and other veteran Beta Testers dreamed it long before we did.... I'm thinkin' there's no pic of Wind--- so Aiibrat's wonderful animation will suffice unless he gets wind of our need for them.... oh, rain, you are such a laugh-riot.

Wind Atlantic City August 13

Sun Atlantic City August 13

Rain AC August 13 Vegas August 6

Cloud Atlantic City August 13

Lightning Atlantic City August 13

Spirit St. Louis August ___

Fire Tarrytown,NY Anytime August

Thunder [see below] Atlantic City August 13

stop this foolish hippie from twirling! Click ==> here <<== now!

Positions now open for this committee!
Vegas Planners given special consideration!

Star [your photo here]

Moon [your photo here]

Earth [your photo here]

Dancer does some research...

Sun, 19 Sep 2004 01:55:06 GMT

From an article dated August 6th this year--

"To try to get an answer to this question I’ve turned to Google. By typing in the domain name of a tool you can find the number of web pages that link to the domain name and the number of pages that contain the search term of that domain name. For example, AOL Journals are all hosted at journals.aol.com. By searching this domain name in Google we find that about 42,300 pages link to journals.aol.com and 159,000 pages contain the domain name journals.aol.com. This compares with 291,000 pages that link to blogspot.com (Blogger’s domain name) and 1.2 million pages that contain the domain name blogspot.com."

Put another way, Elise, author of this study, produces this pie chart:

wow, and my favorite web-hosted blog spot, Bravenet, isn't even listed!

(guess that's covered in the 2% "other") Still, nothing about what states show the highest concentration of bloggers. I am dumbfounded.

Vote for U.S. Convention Locale HERE

Mon, 06 Sep 2004 20:01:46 GMT

A few of us confluencers, pretty much led by sunflowerkat321, are serious about planning a face-to-face AOL Journals convention. Some of the cities mentioned already in our e-dreaming have been:

Locale (Eastern) 38 Votes Rationale _________

Atlantic City 18 same as Vegas only cooler temps

New Orleans 7

Orlando 2

Boston 2

Tarrytown, NY 1

Albany, NY 1

Washington, DC 1

Wilmington, NC 1

Myrtle Beach, SC 1

Atlanta,GA 1

Pennsylvania 2

Ohio 1

Locale (Central) 20 Votes Rationale _______ _

Chicago 8

St. Louis 9 centrally located,cheaper than Chicago

Minneapolis/St.Paul 1 cooler temps, cheaper than Chicago

CampMumsy, IL 1 (but she's a madwoman)
Paris, IL 1 (don't think there's a hotel, is there, pvc?)

Locale (WestCoast) 28_Votes Rationale ________

LasVegas 21 much to do; cheap flights, food, lodging

Tucson 2

Phoenix 2

San Francisco 2

Los Angeles 1

________________________________________________________________
Updated: 8 PM cdt 9/15/04
_________________________________________________________

Please add your preference in the comments below or in an e-mail to me, "rain" at: merelyP@aol.com. We'll keep track of them here, so you can see the preferred convention cities pile up. If you would like to include a rationale for the committee* to argue why your preferred city is best, please do so!

*f2f August 2005 committee (thus far)

sun = sunflowerkat321

wind= windswift1

rain = merelyP

cloud = slacbacmac

thunder = donah42 (she's already organizing a Pennsylvania Confluence)

lightning = floralilia(as long as she can sit at the head table)

fire = montaukny

spirit = robbush6

Keep in mind that the committee has figured early-mid August might be best, especially for journalers who have families. Based on the number of f2f meetings we read about this past month (and needing some time to plan...) we'll also take your suggestions for best weekend in August 2005.

there's not much time left!

Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:32:32 GMT

Click the ballot box to your vote for the city where you think we should all convene sometime in August, 2005 And pick a weekend, too! Poll closes at midnight YOUR time tonight!

Here's some competition stats, AOL...

Sun, 12 Sep 2004 15:12:25 GMT

Following are the 15 most popular U.S. states LiveJournal is used in:

California - 345321
Florida - 197382
New York - 191058
Michigan - 146660
Texas - 139119
Massachusetts - 111013
Pennsylvania - 106722
New Jersey - 98018
Illinois - 85117
Ohio - 78937
Washington - 77669
Virginia - 71219
Georgia - 58840
Arizona - 51922
North Carolina - 50006

Age Distribution

The following shows the age distribution of LiveJournal users:

13 30626
14 98180
15 168045
16 202935
17 210132
18 212441
19 199914
20 160454
21 128911
22 102639
23 80069
24 64751
25 46379
26 35655
27 29501
28 23530
29 19908
30 15932
31 13448
32 11453
33 10328
34 9568
35 7838
36 5689
37 4879
38 4499
39 3625
40 3145
41 2529
42 2424
43 2374
44 2580
45 1840
46 1516
47 1321
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49 1175
50 1090
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52 839
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55 545