I have never before watched the proceedings of any of the legislative bodies that pertain to me, but I watched it tonight. Now I know that I wasn't missing much, as most of these buffoons can barely speak coherently. The ones who were eloquent were actually those who were undecided up until tonight, and all of them came out in favor ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here listening to the soundtrack to Wicked and came to a realization.

I *will* do this show. I *will* be at the sound board for Defying Gravity. My biggest problem will be that I'll also want to be in charge of special effects. But I guess I can leave that, 'cause no one will be able to pry my cold, dead hands off the faders ( Read more... )

Just saw the touring company of Wicked at Proctors in Schenectady. Great show.

We saw the "standby" Elphaba. Not the understudy, there was one of those, too. Dunno. She was great. Very, very good cackle, when it finally comes out. Doesn't make the hair stand up on the back of your neck like she did, but still very good. (I met The Wicked ( Read more... )

So, Westboro Baptist Church is coming to Albany to protest Albany High School's production of The Laramie Project. Even better, the kids at Albany High chose to do The Laramie Project specifically to annoy Westboro after Westboro came to Albany to protest something else 8 months ago ( Read more... )

"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow ( Read more... )

John Scalzi on the Creationist Museum

http://www.homepagedaily.com/Pages/article7426-on-the-creationist-museum.aspx

It's another bad sign when the last email in your inbox is a server complaining about overtemp. And it's worse when you can't actually read that email because the mail server seems to have shut down ( Read more... )

I call a mulligan on the week. No more, try again ( Read more... )

So this evening I sampled a durian flavored candy. They were a bit old, so it was somewhat disappointing. The usual overwhelming bouquet of rotting meat was replaced with a delicate flavor of freshly-pumped-out septic tank. On top of the usual durian flavors, plus coconut milk, which was the bulk of the saltwater-toffee-style candy ( Read more... )

Yep, that says "Hazing ( Read more... )