It’s that time again, the weekend. What to do? You could stay home but the world is ending so we should really get out and enjoy it while it lasts. So here are a few suggestions for how you can get off of your couch and into the world this weekend.
See The Alto Knights, the new DeNiro mob movie in theatres. It looks really good, so let’s all go see it and then come back and discuss.
Go on a Micro Adventure. I have this book by Alastair Humphreys and it’s a great little tome to inspire you to go on a little adventure. Visit a part of your town you’ve never been to, spend a night in a theme motel in your area, go car camping! Adventures don’t have to be big and exciting, spice up your life with small and exciting ones as well! Although I am still looking for folks to drive a tuktuk across Singapore with me.
It’s still book fair season so see if there’s one in your area. I spent half a year’s wages at the Tucson Festival of Books last weekend and it was absolutely worth it.
Go see a play! Google “Broadway in INSERT YOUR CITY” and see what’s playing this weekend and what’s coming up this season. Or go see your local community theatre!
If you do want to stay home, you could suffer through Wicked which is now streaming on Peacock. I absolutely love Wicked, I read the book when it came out and loved it so much that I read everything Gregory Maguire ever wrote, none of which live up to his masterpiece, and like every good theatre kid I had the Wicked soundtrack memorized long before I finally saw it, but I absolutely did not see this movie in the theatres, for two reasons: One, Ariana Grande needs to apologize for her rampant blackfishing before I give her one damn cent, and two, the absolute audacity of turning a musical that has been performed on stage in one sitting FOR TWENTY YEARS into a two parter just to make as much money as possible is so appalling that I refused to contribute to their greed. That being said, now that it’s streaming on a service that I am paying for anyways and I can fast forward past Grande’s most annoying parts, I decided to watch it. It’s fine. Grande is appalling, Erivo’s voice is absolutely not designed or trained for Broadway, and it’s hilarious watching these middle aged women pretend to be college students but it’s beautifully shot and the sets are gorgeous, as it should be for the ten trillion dollars that it cost. So, you know, watch at your own risk but at least it’s free now. Oh and Michelle Yeoh and Jeff Goldblum are it so at least there’s that glorious ray of sunshine. Although, and I hate to be this person, but… maybe we should cast, you know, people who can sing in musicals?
Learn to roast a perfect chicken. I roast a chicken every weekend. It’s a delicious way to have something delicious in the fridge all week and roasting a perfect chicken is an important skill for any non-vegetarian.
Listen to this week’s episode of Choose the Bear with Lauren Bean Buitta, CEO of Girl Security.
Whatever you do, at the very least put down the news and remember that it’s a beautiful world and together we can make it into exactly the world we want it to be. Just not today, so we may as well go on an adventure.
Kat