Pioneers and All

Thursday, August 28, 1997

I joined Savoynet a week or so ago. This is a mailing list devoted to Gilbert and Sullivan. It's a high traffic (you get a lot of mail) but low noise (most of it is on topic) list.

There have been some very interesting reports on the list about a G&S Festival in Buxton, England that happened recently. I am really wanting to go over there, but probably for Corflu, not to Buxton.

Since the mailing list traffic is still amusing me instead of annoying me, I guess G&S are still making a comeback on my personal obsession hit parade. I listen to The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance and Iolanthe very often at work. Time to pull out my old videotapes of the "Complete" (really it isn't) G&S that I taped off of PBS in the eighties.

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I got smart on Wednesday night and parked my car at home, then took the bus down to Pioneer Square for another reading by Vonda.

Pioneer Square has some of the oldest buildings in Seattle. When the area was rebuilt after the big fire in the 1890s, it was regraded, so the first story of some buildings ended up in the basement. This is how they can give the popular "Underground Seattle" tour to the tourists, where you poke around in stuff that hasn't been changed since they buried it! We gave a Cacophonous "overground tour" in the Denny Regrade area a while back. Nick should do this again! It was fun, and had good info too.

I've been reading Vonda's book, The Moon and the Sun, a bit at a time since I bought it a few weeks ago. She read a different part Wednesday evening, one that I haven't gotten to yet. I am enjoying the book, and I think I'll have to stop just reading it at lunch time and sit down and read straight through.

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Some other diarists are at the Worldcon this weekend (Michael Rawdon, for one). Somewhere else I'd like to go, but it would need to be in a good place, and it would take planning!