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It was a great run and Colin and Lydia got to go see the show with me too, which was a blast.
Brigitt Markusfeld gets two thumbs up from me too as Miss Shields… she’s wonderful in all of the teacher dream sequences too.
Dream sequence…
too many LIfe Buoy
mouth washings…
The dangers of a ‘double-dog dare’
This is totally off topic… but hey, it’s MY BLOG, right
A friend from my hometown is sending his son up to Rochester for a hockey game and wondered what 18-23 year olds could do in Rochester. So I, the old guy, left it up to my #1 Assistant pal (20 something) Natalie. Here’s what she said and some of my thoughts, directions and few other ideas tacked on. Also, this is around Halloween 2009, so some of the events will be dated if you are seeing this later. Deal with it.
(Any of these things you could google to find, or tell a cabbie… they are very well known and I’m adding the road name where I can)
OK, word is in from my young assistant Natalie:
If they are in the Halloween spirit there are a lot of great Halloween things going on this weekend like the Haunted Manor in South Town Plaza (Jefferson Road in Henrietta)- They have three haunted houses and a few other “halloween/spooky” events.
Fear at Frontier is at Frontier Field (Downtown near State Street, our AAA baseball stadium).
Also, Brown’s Berry Patch has apple picking and things like that, I did that this weekend and it was pretty fun. (Ken Note: I’m really glad Natalie mentioned this… I’d feel old and uncool doing it, but some of the apple picking things around here are cool… and there’s the corn mazes and if you have time to travel a bit, Letchworth State park is fantastic. Really a destination for photos, walking or this time of year with the leaves turning for Fall.)
The George Eastman House has a new exhibit. (Ken note… look, I know this is geeky, but it is sort of a cool place. It’s a total 1900’s mansion and they have photo shows up and camera stuff. A place to eat, etc. GEH is close to Fisher area too, it’s on East Avenue)
Garbage Plates from Nick Tahous (which got renamed to Stevie T’s) is a must. (ya, this and the Dinosaur BBQ are to totally great hometown places for food. Nick’s is in a tough neighborhood, right off main street…. but the garbage plate is total guy food. Dino is right downtown, like Canal street and one of the best BBQ places I’ve ever been to. Bikers hang out there too, which gives it some cred
And if they like to drink all the most popular bars are on the corner of East and Alexander Street… there are about 6-10 just right in a row.
How do those things sound? Hope that helps!
More Ken Stuff:
The Little Theatre is our cool independent movie house. Right now they have a movie with The Edge and Jimmy Page and other stuff:
Geva Comedy Improv is doing Halloween and Zombie comedy shows:
I work with these guys, they rock and are loved by the college set
RIT:
Always something going on at RIT. Top class hockey team. My school Even just checking out the campus is fun… they have a Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, a great coffee shop, etc
‘Psst…the Huth’s got their tickets to see Wicked with RIT’ Glinda seems to be telling Elphaba
Colin and Lydia are going too! We love the music and story line, but this will be our first time to see the show. Are you going?
Quick update on my switch from Nikon to the Canon 5D.
Big View HERE
Just got done with a Geva show and two major things I noticed:
High ISO rocks!
It was wonderful to shoot most of the show (a VERY dark Sherlock Holmes mystery) at 800 and 1600 ISO, instead of thinking that 500 was OK on my Nikon D200 and really not liking ISO 800 on that camera. The Nikon would get mushy at high ISO, as well as the noise. The Canon gets less noisy, but more importantly, the subject stays solid looking, not mushy.
Also, my 2 D200’s both had big dead pixels at all ISOs and much worse at 800.
The Canon Focuses!
Man, I blamed myself for years with the Nikon, and had ‘backfocus’ problems… but the new camera shows me that the Nikon was just crummy at focussing.
So I’m very happy.
I will complain about Canon things in some post too, so stay tuned for the down sides…
What a riot of a show. This will be a huge hit for Geva. Don’t let the name put you off… I mean, what was ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’ anyway?! It’s just a goofy musical, dark comedy, set in a rough future with a water problem… which makes it a ‘Priviledge to Pee’. Once you get past the title, and general idea, there’s very little to object to in the show… we’re taking the kids.
If you want an idea of what Urintown (not the place of course, the musical) is like, check out their Tony Award performance video HERE. 
See a cool Flash Gallery of my photos from the show HERE in my ‘Secret Hideout’.
