http://www.geezersisters.com/new-york/the-show-goes-on Austin, Texas novelist Ruth Pennebaker, who's old enough to call herself "fabulous," writes about family, politics, marriage, friendship, feminism, aging and whatever else occurs to her. Her latest novel, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough, was published by Berkley in January 2011. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:24:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.geezersisters.com/new-york/the-show-goes-on/comment-page-1#comment-5878 Almost Slowfood Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:17:39 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=2554#comment-5878 I'm a DC native and, during the blizzard of 96, I missed two weeks of school!!! It was amazing. My 96 year old grandmother is still snowed in poor thing. She used to take sleigh rides across the Potomac river (it use to freeze annually) from Alexandria to DC and said she has never ever in her life seen this much snow. We're use to swamps and brutal humid heat, but 3 feet of snow? Not so much:) Glad you made it to the show!! I’m a DC native and, during the blizzard of 96, I missed two weeks of school!!! It was amazing.
My 96 year old grandmother is still snowed in poor thing. She used to take sleigh rides across the Potomac river (it use to freeze annually) from Alexandria to DC and said she has never ever in her life seen this much snow. We’re use to swamps and brutal humid heat, but 3 feet of snow? Not so much:)
Glad you made it to the show!!

]]> http://www.geezersisters.com/new-york/the-show-goes-on/comment-page-1#comment-5832 MarthaAndMe Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:13:18 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=2554#comment-5832 I"m glad you were able to go! Here in Buffalo we watch the hysteria about snow in D.C. with great amusement. I”m glad you were able to go! Here in Buffalo we watch the hysteria about snow in D.C. with great amusement.

]]> http://www.geezersisters.com/new-york/the-show-goes-on/comment-page-1#comment-5817 Winston Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:31:48 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=2554#comment-5817 Melodramatic TV anchors and hyperbolic meteorologists are also broadcasting their updates from outside in the blizzard, no doubt.  It's the same down here and everywhere.  Say, a hurricane has made landfall.  If you're lucky to still have power, you might tune the TV to the local news. You will inevitably see your favorite Eyewitness News meteorologist clinging to a dancing stop-sign post, his body sailing out horizontally, saying something stupid:<em> It's getting a bit rough out here!  Stay indoors and lie under your beds! </em>God only knows what's holding down the cameraman.  Probably an overturned truck.<em> </em>   If I were that woman in the theater, I wouldn't be worried about sitting behind a big head.  No, I'd be worried about sitting near that odd couple wearing 80 lbs. of clothing-- each! Melodramatic TV anchors and hyperbolic meteorologists are also broadcasting their updates from outside in the blizzard, no doubt.  It’s the same down here and everywhere.  Say, a hurricane has made landfall.  If you’re lucky to still have power, you might tune the TV to the local news. You will inevitably see your favorite Eyewitness News meteorologist clinging to a dancing stop-sign post, his body sailing out horizontally, saying something stupid: It’s getting a bit rough out here!  Stay indoors and lie under your beds! God only knows what’s holding down the cameraman.  Probably an overturned truck.

 
If I were that woman in the theater, I wouldn’t be worried about sitting behind a big head.  No, I’d be worried about sitting near that odd couple wearing 80 lbs. of clothing– each!

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