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Melanor Rigby

@rigbymel76.bsky.social

I am performing in A Thing soon:
Join the On the Air Radio Players for some festive fun featuring classic holiday sitcom episodes of “Our Miss Brooks” & “The Great Gildersleeve.” Enjoy our talented voice actors and sound effects artists as they bring these holiday stories to life Dec 3&4 7pm #rva

Photo of an old radio with silver tinsel + red and blue holiday baubles surrounding it. Background has soft focus colored lights.

OTARP Presents “Jolly Holidays with OTARP”
Directed by Amy Mawyer

Wednesday, December 3rd & Thursday, December 4th
7pm
The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen

Join the On the Air Radio Players for some festive fun featuring classic holiday sitcom episodes of “Our Miss Brooks” and “The Great Gildersleeve.”

Enjoy our talented voice actors and sound effects artists as they bring these holiday stories to life at the Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen.

Be a part of our live studio audience as we record the show live for future podcasting. This show is sure to get you in the holiday spirit.

November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM

Melanor Rigby

@rigbymel76.bsky.social

Finishing up "The Road to Roswell" by Connie Willis (2023) - starting "Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism" by Kristen R. Ghodsee (2018) and "The Murder of Mr. Wickham" by Claudia Gray (2022) 📚💙 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #CurrentlyReading

Book cover for "Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence" by Kristen R. Ghodsee (2018)
Cover is orange with white text and has an illustration of a large rose in a darker orange-red

Book cover for "The Murder of Mr. Wickham" by Claudia Gray (2022)
White text on a blue background. Illustration of a stately home silhouetted in black with lit (yellow) windows, some of which have people in Regency outfits silhouetted in them. The night sky is stormy with lighting. Near the bottom, there is also a silhouette of a horse-drawn carriage and stylized trees

November 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM

Melanor Rigby

@rigbymel76.bsky.social

Commonwealth Concert Opera
Messiah
Dec 14th & 20th
A timeless masterpiece, performed with fresh passion! Join us as we perform selections from Handel's beloved oratorio. With Chamber Orchestra.
Tickets:
www.commonwealthconcertopera.com/messiah-tick... #music #RVAMusic #rva

Commonwealth Concert Opera
Messiah
December 14 7:30 pm Westminster Presbyterian Church
December 20 7:30 pm First English Lutheran Church

A timeless masterpiece, performed with fresh passion! Join us as we perform selections from not only the Christmas section, but across Handel's beloved oratorio, "Messiah". With Chamber Orchestra.

November 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM

Melanor Rigby

@rigbymel76.bsky.social

I am performing in A Thing soon:
Join the On the Air Radio Players for some festive fun featuring classic holiday sitcom episodes of “Our Miss Brooks” & “The Great Gildersleeve.” Enjoy our talented voice actors and sound effects artists as they bring these holiday stories to life Dec 3&4 7pm #rva

OTARP Presents “Jolly Holidays with OTARP”
Directed by Amy Mawyer

Wednesday, December 3rd & Thursday, December 4th
7pm
The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen

Join the On the Air Radio Players for some festive fun featuring classic holiday sitcom episodes of “Our Miss Brooks” and “The Great Gildersleeve.”

Enjoy our talented voice actors and sound effects artists as they bring these holiday stories to life at the Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen.

Be a part of our live studio audience as we record the show live for future podcasting. This show is sure to get you in the holiday spirit.

November 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM

Melanor Rigby

@rigbymel76.bsky.social

Last 4 films watched
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #MovieSky #FilmSky #movies📽️
@letterboxd.social

Movie posters for:
* Wicked: For Good (2025)
* Frankenstein (2025)
* The Big Lebowski (1998)
* Devo (2024)

November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM

Melanor Rigby

@rigbymel76.bsky.social

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? @remhq.bsky.social #music #albums

Album cover for R.E.M.’s “Automatic for the People”

November 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM

Melanor Rigby

@rigbymel76.bsky.social

Still working on "Eleanore of Avignon" by Elizabeth DeLozier (2024)
Also started reading "The Road to Roswell" by Connie Willis (2023)📚💙 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #CurrentlyReading

Book cover for "The Road To Roswell: A Novel" by Connie Willis (2023)
Cover features a blue starry background with southwestern buttes along the horizon. In the foreground is a neon green and blue sign with the title and author info. Above the sign a silver flying saucer appears to be beaming up cow (or other animal).

November 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM

Melanor Rigby

@rigbymel76.bsky.social

Currently reading "Eleanore of Avignon" by Elizabeth DeLozier (2024)📚💙 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #CurrentlyReading

Book cover for "Eleanore of Avignon" by Elizabeth DeLozier (2024)
White text on a golden background

November 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM

Melanor Rigby

@rigbymel76.bsky.social

Got my cheese advent calendar at Aldi despite being wounded thanks to my very kind and non-judgmental vegan husband #cheese #AdventCalendar #CheeseAdventCalendar 🧀
Looking forward to December gustatory delectation

Festive “Winter Wonderland Cheese Advent Calendar Tasting Experience” box
24 imported festive cheeses 🧀
From Aldi
Excited to have this for gustatory delectation in December

November 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM

Melanor Rigby

@rigbymel76.bsky.social

Last 4 films watched
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #MovieSky #FilmSky #movies📽️
@letterboxd.social

Posters for the last four films I watched (still in a spooky mood):
* The Craft (1996)
* The Road to Dracula (1999)
* Son of Frankenstein (1939)
* The Worst Witch (1986)

November 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM

Melanor Rigby

@rigbymel76.bsky.social

#MusicLibrary problems: Interesting interaction w/ someone asking for info on how to play "small vinyls w/ a big hole in the middle" (i.e., a 45). I wanted to crumble into dust, but instead created a short tutorial for my student workers on the subject of 45s, adapters & how to use them. #music

Getty images picture of a 45 ganked from the interwebs.
Features a black viny record with an orange label.
Label text happens to be for the Columbia issue of Billy Joel's 1980 single "You May Be Right"

November 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM

Melanor Rigby

@rigbymel76.bsky.social

Currently reading "The New Annotated Frankenstein" by Mary Shelly, edited with forward & notes by Leslie S. Klinger (1818 - this annotated edition published 2017) 📚💙 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #CurrentlyReading

Book cover for "The New Annotated Frankenstein" by Mary Shelly, edited with forward & notes by Leslie S. Klinger (1818 - this annotated edition published 2017)

November 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM

Melanor Rigby

@rigbymel76.bsky.social

Ten books read in October 2025. Logged via @thestorygraph.com #books #reading #ReadingList #Booksky 📚

Cover collage of the books I read this past month.
* Red Pockets by Alice Mah (2025)
* The Artist of Blackberry Grange by Paulette Kennedy (2025)
* Garfield at Large by Jim Davis (1980)
* Garfield Gains Weight by Jim Davis (1981)
* The Witch’s Book of Self-Care by Arin Murphy-Hiscock
* The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany (2002)
* Catification by Jackson Galaxy and Kate Benjamin (2014)
* Bonnie Writes the Beatles: Hamburg! by Kal Smagh (2024)
* Black Water Sister by Zen Cho (2024)
* Coming Up Short by Robert Reich (2025)

November 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM

Melanor Rigby

@rigbymel76.bsky.social

Happy Halloween from me and the pets (familiars) 🎃👻 #Halloween #PetsOfBluesky #CatsOfBluesky #DogsOfBluesky #jackolantern

A black cat named Lucy gazes up at the camera from behind a black ceramic Halloween tree with orange and purple lights and a giant Funko pop of Maleficent as dragon

A black cat named Linus sits tall next to a freshly carved jack o lantern

A black and white dog rests his front paws atop a tv table containing a freshly carved jack o lantern. Archie looks back over his shoulder at the camera

October 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM

Melanor Rigby

@rigbymel76.bsky.social

Last 4 films watched
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #MovieSky #FilmSky #movies📽️
@letterboxd.social

Posters for the last 4 things I watched this week:
* Hocus Pocus (1993)
* The Paul Lynde Halloween Special (1976)
* Agatha All Along (2024)
* Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (2025)

October 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM

Melanor Rigby

@rigbymel76.bsky.social

More spooooky things watched thus far this Spooky Season. #MovieSky #movies #FilmSky #Films #TVSky #TV #Spooky #October #Dracula #Muppets #Garfield #Beetlejuice #AgathaAllAlong #PaulLynde #Halloween

Posters for assorted spooky movies and shows that I've watched in October 2025:
* Muppets Haunted Mansion (2021)
* Dracula (1931)
* Garfield's Halloween Adventure (aka Garfield in Disguise) (1985)
* Beetlejuice (1988)
* The Paul Lynde Halloween Special (1976)
* Agatha All Along (2024)

October 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM

Melanor Rigby

@rigbymel76.bsky.social

Last 4 films watched
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #MovieSky #FilmSky #movies📽️
@letterboxd.social

Movie posters for the last four things I watched:
* Muppets Haunted Mansion (2021)
* Garfield's Halloween Adventure (1985)
* Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
* The Addams Family (1991)

October 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM

Melanor Rigby

@rigbymel76.bsky.social

Spooooky things watched thus far this Spooky Season. Need to step it up before the end of the month. #MovieSky #movies #FilmSky #Films #TVSky #TV #StrangerThings #Frankenstein #AddamsFamily #Spooky #October

Posters for assorted spooky shows and movies I've watched thus far in October:
* Stranger Things (Season 1) (2016)
* Frankenstein (1931)
* Stranger Things (Season 2) (2017)
* The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
* Stranger Things (Season 3) (2019)
... more to come!

October 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM

Melanor Rigby

@rigbymel76.bsky.social

Still working on "Black Water Sister" by Zen Cho (2021) also reading "Coming Up Short" by Robert Reich (2025), and "Count Magnus & Other Ghost Stories" by M.R. James (1904) 📚💙 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #CurrentlyReading