Minnesota Public Radio’s Fitzgerald Theater: A Prairie Home Companion Movie I thought David was kidding the other morning when he told me about this. It was on one of the NPR weekend news shows – I must have been completely unconscious, or perhaps I was downstairs indulging in Honey Nut Cheerios and fooling around with the iPod. IN any case, the thought of a movie about PHC, set backstage at the (fictitious) last broadcast, directed by (this is not fictitious) Robert Altman is just sixty-seven kinds of surreal. Woody Harrelson is in it. Why? Meryl Streep is in it. Why?…

Okay, we’re off to the movies to see Fantastic Four. The trailers look good, so I hope it doesn’t disappoint. It’s a nice day today, but a little hot for working outside, so the cool dark interior of the local multiplex is for us. UPDATE: Hey, not bad! That turned out to be a pretty good entry in the “comix-to-flix” genre. At least I remembered more about their backstory than I did with some of the other movies (I didn’t know who the hell DareDevil was, for instance). I always like Johnny Storm and that “flame on” bit, too.

Saturday dawned warm, hazy, and humid, but off to the Morton Arboretum we went to see a performance of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. If you’re not familiar with this play, it’s the one where girl meets boy, boy likes girl, boy runs off into exile into the woods, girl runs off into exile into the woods but dresses as a boy, boy meets “boy” and is tricked into “pretending” he’s wooing the girl so that he can be cured. Sundry rustic bumpkins and foppish courtiers intrude, and we get the famous “All the world’s a stage” speech from one…

She came for a royal visit, and I tried to take her picture like any good papparazzi would. But she was really more interested in when Mom would come pick her up (and her dinner and breakfast). This and many more pictures have just been uploaded to the photo gallery.