The Screwtape Letters - the Lantern Theater

The Lantern Theater is my favorite Philadelphia "little theater." It's intimate. It's professional. You are very close to the actors - and the shows are different. Sometimes I don't care for their selections - but often I do. I've seen a marvelous King Lear there and a wonderful The Bacchae. In this case I enjoyed the show very much. Anthony Lawton and Guenevive Perrier are wonderful. Their physical/dance skits are terrific.

Mostly this is Anthony Lawton's show - in fact he wrote it - rather adapted it from CS Lewis' The Screwtape Letters - a tremendously perceptive book that I read at least 15 years ago.

The show is over now - and I'd only recommend you see it with a terrific star like Anthony Lawton because it is a one-man show - and if he's not good the show won't be either.

It was a mostly sold-out run. Nice to know that shows like this are popular draw and make money for the production houses.

RIP - Bobby Fisher

Bobby Fisher was a boyhood hero of mine. As much for his anti-establishment attitude as for his genius over the chessboard. After college I became a tournament chess player (reaching a USCF ranking of A-player with a rating of 1865). I later moved from chess into Go - but always the first cause in my love of games and human challenge is the inspiration I Got from Bobby Fisher and his match agasint Boris Spassky in 1970.

RIP - Bobby Fisher.

Snowfall in Perkiomenville, January 17, 2008

Snowfall in Perkiomenville, January 17, 2008. It was a pretty snowfall - wet and heavy. This picture has the holly tree in the foreground and the stone circle in the background.

RIP Sir Edmund Hillary

We who climb things hope that somewhere you are climbing still. You were a shining example of courage, humility, charity, refinement, and grace.