Author Archives: JJD
Turkey Bowl with the Elders Quorum
Okay, so the Elders Quorum president at church (who is also my home teacher — the same who skateboards to Sunday meetings and refers to me as “dude” and “bro” and assumes I went to “the Cougs” for college — we’re basically from different planets) sent me an email tonight inviting me to join a game of flag […]
King John (or 18 down, 19 to go!)
King John? Check. One more history play off the list. About a year ago a friend of mine, Melanie, decided that she wants to see all of Shakespeare’s plays performed before she turns forty. She knows I can keep up when it comes to theatre (she and I did theatre together while we were in law […]
Living out of a suitcase
It’s that time of year again! The days get darker and colder, normal people start gearing up for the holidays, and I move into my suitcase. It’s the busiest season for the media-related transactions that I specialize in, and because many of my clients and their counter parties are in New York, I end up […]
True love conquers all (especially if you’re a vampire)
For the past few years I’ve had seasons tickets to the Kennedy Center’s modern dance season, but this year I opted for the ballet season instead. Largely inspired by my own forays into the genre, I wanted more exposure to the discipline, athleticism and rigorous aesthetics of classical dance. And, I’m not going to lie, I wanted to […]
Birthday weekend, part 3 – Falling with Alice
Birthdays aside, the main reason for Amanda’s and my rendez-vous in New York was to see Then She Fell. It’s an immersive theatre experience roughly in the same genre as Sleep No More (which I saw and wrote about last year), only here the story was Alice In Wonderland, we didn’t wear masks, and there […]
Birthday weekend, part 2 – Exploring Brooklyn
Like I said, by the time we finally turned out the lights on Friday night, it was well past 3:00am. For some reason this prompted Amanda to ask if we needed to set an alarm and wouldn’t it be nice to just sleep in for a while? Fortunately, I saw through this trick question (it was actually […]
Birthday weekend, part 1 – Work/life balance
While on train to New York for a weekend of theatre and food with Amanda, receive email from partner basically telling me to cancel trip and spend all weekend working for client who doesn’t care that partner and I both have important personal plans this weekend. Breathe. Eat some nuts and dried fruit. Don’t cancel […]
Claudia!
I was in New York today for some meetings at the NFL. It was just a quick one-day trip (up on the 5am train, back on the 4pm), so I figured it would just be all business trip no theatre or restaurants or friends. But then guess what? I discovered through Facebook that Claudia was in New […]
The bunny and the steamroller
I’m back! At least for a minute. (Now I’m going to ramble for a minute, so if you want to jump to the good stuff — including cannibalism — feel free to scroll down.) Things have been relentless, to say the least. Remember back in August when I thought it would be a good idea to sign up […]
Opera weekend! Eugene Onegin
Call me crazy and extravagant, but sometimes you just have to set aside a weekend and go to New York to see an opera at the Metropolitan Opera. Clear back in March, I bought tickets with some friends to see the new production of Eugene Onegin that the Met rolled out to kick off the 2013-14 season. […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 