View Friends Page by Date

Paid Account holders can now view their friends list for a certain day by appending the date to the URL of their friends page: http://exampleusername.livejournal.com/friends/?date=YYYY-MM-DD. This will only show entries from those you currently list as friends, and will order the entries by server time.

So let's say you were away from LJ on your birthday, and you want to view all your birthday greetings at once, you can do this.

Edit: Doesn't work for S1 users.

a play

Cyn reminded me I wanted to mention the play we saw the other night, The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Readhead. It was a one-woman play starring Deborah Staples. I liked it a lot, but I was mostly impressed by Staples. Simply by changing her makeup and the expressions on her face, she made herself look like a completely different person. She played the redhead (the central character), her brunette neighbor, a blonde store clerk, characters of the title, and also a doctor, a 4-1/2 year old boy, an elderly woman and the husband of the readhead. All of the characters were completely believable (with the possible exception of the little boy). I was really impressed by her turn as the elderly woman.

In between scenes, she opened up a closet at the back of the stage and changed her clothes and makeup. You could see her changing characters even as she was changing clothes. The costuming was done very well. When she was dressed as the man, she had the old woman's housecoat under the man's costume, and it made him look a little overweight. The blonde's tight outfit was under the housecoat.

I've seen Staples several times in the last year and a half, but I'm sure I wouldn't have recognized her if some of these characters had just walked onstage.