Archive of 2010 November
The Posies at the 9:30 Club
November 26, 2010, 8:36 pm View CommentsI can’t believe I haven’t posted these videos here yet. I blame the end-of-semester madness.
The Posies played an amazing, short-ish show at the 9:30 Club. Granted, I got there fifteen minutes into the set after I raced down to DC directly from class in Baltimore as quickly as I could. Check out these quick highlights. If you ever have a chance to see them live, do yourself a favor and bask in some power pop greatness.
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Thanksgiving
November 26, 2010, 7:40 pm View Comments
To all my friends here in the US, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday, no matter how you celebrated it.
And to all of my friends outside of the US, I hope you had an equally wonderful Thursday!
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STS-133 NASA Tweetup
November 23, 2010, 10:25 am View Comments
(Photo credit: NASA/Paul E. Alers)
I started writing about the NASA Tweetup nearly a dozen times now. I’m having trouble encapsulating exactly how profound of an experience it was, maybe because I’m still wrapping my head around it.
In the weeks leading up, a group of very organized people coordinated the rental of a vacation house, which we dubbed the Big House. The enthusiasm people had in the Google group and on Twitter was infectious. I didn’t know anyone, but I was excited to dive in and meet them. Within a matter of hours of arriving, we were family. These are new friends I will keep for the rest of my life.
At Kennedy Space Center, we saw things that aren’t normally available to the public. The launch was delayed multiple times, and then eventually scrubbed, but Stephanie Schierholz, the tweetup organizer and our personal superhero/rockstar, coordinated extra activities and more unforgettable moments than we could have dreamed. What was originally a three-day trip was extended into a week-long experience that, for lack of a better term, changed my life. We saw the inside of the Vehicle Assembly Building. We visited the launchpad at sunset. We explored the Kennedy Space Center visitor center at leisure and rode the Shuttle Launch Experience multiple times. At the Big House, we stayed up late, forged new relationships, played music, laughed harder than any of us had laughed in a long time, ate, drank, and basked in the presence of some of the most creative, smart, fascinating people I had ever met.
I am working on a much longer post about the whole week, but in the meantime, my friends Raam and Tallulah both wrote incredibly stirring pieces that express the spirit of the experience much better than I can right now. It’s absolutely required reading. We also had no shortage of photographers on hand, so be sure to check out my Flickr set as well as the tweetup group.
As of right now, NASA plans to launch Discovery no earlier than 2:52 a.m. on December 3. Stephanie informed us that our badges will allow us into the press area during this new launch window. (See? She’s still our superhero.) So, presented with this astonishing opportunity, I will head back down to the Space Coast next week. There’s no way I could miss this.