A Very Social Weekend
Apr. 24th, 2023 07:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tcpipThis past weekend was so busy, I suspect I must have been trying to catch up for lost evenings and events from the past month, or in preparation for an upcoming busy week study-wise. Either way, it started on Thursday night with dinner with Anthony and Robin and with the discovery of some rather remarkable (even by my criteria) political machinations occurring among some neighbouring states; the sort of skulduggery that you hear about from investigative journalists, back when that was an actual profession. The following night was dinner with dear Liza and Ev, and whilst that was absent of such revelations the quality of conversation was just as good. Plus, there was a new adorable Russian blue cat to make friends with.
The big event the following night was going to see comedian Daniel Sloss at Plenary Hall. He's certainly rocketed in popularity in recent months; a year ago I reviewed a show at Hamer Hall which fills at 2500; this was almost at capacity of 5500. Aided by a quality support act, Sloss was able to provide a certain edginess, outrage, explanation, and ventured heavily into his absurd and disturbed observations as a new father. I'm rather keen to write another review perhaps in the coming week (you know, with all my spare time).
The following day I joined a special gaming day organised by Tim R at uni; we played "Noir", a rather good simulation of the film noir genre, which works quite well. As a related bonus, today I received a small delivery of old RPGs including a very early (1975) edition of "Empire of the Petal Throne", another copy of "Bunnies & Burrows", and a third edition of "Call of Cthulhu". Wrapping up the weekend, on Sunday evening I went out with Liana to the Astor Theatre to see "Beau is Afraid", which is almost certainly destined to become a bit of an arthouse classic, crossing absurd horror and gore with comedy with troubled psychologies. Somehow, this all seemed quite appropriate in the context of the wider weekend.
The big event the following night was going to see comedian Daniel Sloss at Plenary Hall. He's certainly rocketed in popularity in recent months; a year ago I reviewed a show at Hamer Hall which fills at 2500; this was almost at capacity of 5500. Aided by a quality support act, Sloss was able to provide a certain edginess, outrage, explanation, and ventured heavily into his absurd and disturbed observations as a new father. I'm rather keen to write another review perhaps in the coming week (you know, with all my spare time).
The following day I joined a special gaming day organised by Tim R at uni; we played "Noir", a rather good simulation of the film noir genre, which works quite well. As a related bonus, today I received a small delivery of old RPGs including a very early (1975) edition of "Empire of the Petal Throne", another copy of "Bunnies & Burrows", and a third edition of "Call of Cthulhu". Wrapping up the weekend, on Sunday evening I went out with Liana to the Astor Theatre to see "Beau is Afraid", which is almost certainly destined to become a bit of an arthouse classic, crossing absurd horror and gore with comedy with troubled psychologies. Somehow, this all seemed quite appropriate in the context of the wider weekend.
