http://evamoon.net/blog Music, Musings & Mischief Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:00:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's a pretty safe bet to put you, dear blog reader, in the category of people who were not at our show Saturday night, since pretty much everybody was not at our show Saturday night. People were lining up in droves to not be at our show. But music materialized. Drinks ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2010/03/09/laughing-ladies/ I don't know why we bother. We put on an Oscars party every year, and every year it gets duller and duller. Not the party, but the Oscars. I had inexplicably high hopes for Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin - two funny guys. But NOOOOOO! Perhaps they took their cues ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2010/03/07/and-the-winner-is/ Sometimes the best gift you give is not the gift you intended to give. That happened today when my husband gave me the wrong size jacket as a Valentine offering. People who don't celebrate Valentine's Day make it a point of pride. "Flowers die." "Chocolate is fattening." "Who needs pair of ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2010/02/14/perfect-imperfection-on-v-day/ All the recent controversy about the existence or non-existence of the G-spot might naturally lead people to want to put their finger on it once and for all. Now you can. Sort of. This G-point mouse has a secret spot inside that, when pressed, will take you to your favorite place. ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2010/02/13/secret-nsfw-spot/ OK, so in the great if oddly-plotted opera Il Trovatore the gypsy woman, Azucena, attempting to avenge her mother who was burnt at the stake by the count, steals the count's infant son intending to toss the baby on her mother's bonfire. But, in a moment of confusion, accidentally throws ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2010/01/31/the-bonehead-of-the-opera/ My dad sent me a DVD he had transferred from a pile of old home movies. I've been playing the Lone Arranger of clips (as a friends puts it). Here's a walk through time, 1956 to 1963. The little girls are me, later my sister Donna and near the end, ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2010/01/19/sibling-revelry/ You see me here, rockin' on the porch and you think I'm some washed up old fossil who don't know nothin'. Don't you roll your eyes at me. You kids today! With all your fancy gadgets and gizmos. Your iPhones and your wi-fi shoes and your rock and roll. You ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2010/01/16/vajazzle-me/ A story of the miraculous curative power of cats. Something went terribly wrong with my trusty Mac Powerbook yesterday. I was attempting to stream live video from an event at a local coffee house when suddenly its ability to see wi-fi dried up. Pfft. I won't go into all the things ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2010/01/11/the-laying-on-of-cats/ A press release from my other life as Commissioner Moon: Redmond Digital Arts Festival Sunday, January 10 2010, 3:00pm - 5:00pm FREE (Sponsored by: Microsoft, City of Redmond, Gas Powered Games, Marriot, DigiPen, & Redmond City Center) The Redmond Arts Commission welcomes you to the 2nd Digital Arts Festival, beginning with special events ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2010/01/08/mixed-reality-music/ They say to be a successful blogger your blog should have a theme. I'm sure that explains the resounding silence that generally greets my posts. But I do have a number of recurring themes and one of them is soup. In an effort to beat back the bad habits that always ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2010/01/03/chopping-list/ I think most people know what a Brazilian Bikini Wax is by now. It's the full rain forest clear cut. And who says women aren't tough? But did you know that if they leave that little landing strip in the front it's called French Wax? So I started wondering, do other ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2009/12/31/national-wax/ Kudos to Bonefish Grill My sister, Pam, is one of those peanut allergy people you read about in the newspaper - the ones who are responsible for depriving you of the small, salty joy of a thimbleful of peanuts on a long plane flight. But for any goobers who are itching ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2009/12/11/sweets-to-the-sweet-here-have-a-nut/ Chapter One Many years ago, long before I was the confident, capable (snort) singer I am now, I was acutely nervous about a solo in a choir concert. The solo was an exceedingly obscure Hungarian Gypsy song. It would be hard to overstate just how obscure this song was. It was ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2009/12/10/no-one-will-ever-know/ I'm not pushy when it comes to selling my CD's. I put it out there and trust that you all will be so impressed with it's excellence that you'll step right up and buy it. I sincerely thank all four of you who did. I'm not going to start getting pushy ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2009/12/08/ten-reasons-why-you-should-give-my-cd/ They may have trekked hundreds of miles through trackless deserts, but didn't try to find phyllo dough in Redmond. It's not that there isn't any. Actually, there's quite a bit - they had it at six of the seven stores I went to. But it's gone through a transformation that echoes ... http://evamoon.net/blog/2009/12/06/the-magi-had-it-easy/