Spartan Girl

Charles Gordon was a hoot as the bad guy unironically in love with Miss Piggy. I remember that one chapter in his memoir about their short-lived love affair. 😂

Oh no, don't let me influence your opinion! I'm just asking if other productions of "Cell Block Tango" at least had more to it than just them standing there/sitting in their chairs.

She’s got nothing to prove to anybody at this point. Will miss her though.

To everyone that grew up in the 90s and finally managed to get this theme song out of their head…forgive me.

Screw him. Anyone that tries to excuse this on his drug addiction or autism can STFU.

Point is, I’ve now seen pretty much all the big staples still on Broadway. Back to Chicago, for anyone that’s seen it. Was I the only one that felt let down by “Cell Block Tango”? I knew they wouldn’t go all out like the movie, but I was at least expecting more dancing than I got. It’s supposed to be a TANGO for FFS.

I love all of them, but I’ve got a soft spot for Muppet Treasure Island because that was the first one I saw in theaters when I was a kid. And of course Muppet Christmas Carol, the best version of Christmas Carol ever—yeah, I said it!

Will they still die?

I’m not just saying this because of Lent, but I really liked this episode! It was so refreshing for Marge to openly acknowledge her vindictive side, and finally owning up to the fact that it is hypocritical to act nice while suppressing your real feelings about people. Loved Tim Meadows’ cameo too.

Seeing the show Chicago today hit harder than it would have a year ago. “In 50 years or so, it’s gonna change, you know…” You mean the media sensationalizing criminals for profit or people creating their own fandom cults for any good-looking murderer with a sob story? HA!

I saw the touring production of Chicago for the first time ever. I was aware that it’s very minimalist compared to the movie, but the difference was still a little jarriing. Anyway, it was good—even if the plot of criminal using sensationalist media to literally get away with murder hits a little harder this year. The dancing was more impressive in Act 2 than Act 1 IMHO; I was stunned that there wasn’t more choreography for “Cell Block Tango.” And if they can pull out the feathered fans for “All I Care About Is Love” then why not for “When You’re Good to Mama”?! All she did was just stand there singing! So with that, I’ve finally completed the block of Broadway’s longest running shows from the 80s and 90s: Cats, Les Miserables, Phantom, Chicago, and Miss Saigon. Do Lion King and Beauty and the Beast count too?

We did, but others are still a little slow to wake up and see the Matrix.

With Bill Maher fawning over Trump at his White House visit, is it finally time for the rest of the world to realize that Maher is a poseur and more conservative than he’s pretended to be all these years?

Between She’s A Lamb! by Meredith Hambrook and Saltwater by Kathy Hays, I think I really have to stop with these psycho-narrator/soap opera twist books. The one in Saltwater was especially egregious; a story should be limited to one death fake-out, not five.

So to be clear, this was before zoos had more space in their enclosures? Okay, I looked it up on Wikipedia, and…Balto wasn’t actually a wolf dog?! For crying out loud, why would the animated movie make that up? Maybe it’s because I dislike taxidermy, but I find the fact that Balto got stuffed and in a museum equally as disturbing as Floyd Collins’ corpse literally being put on display for years at Sand Cave before officials finally did the right thing and buried him (not making it up). Yeah yeah, I know Will Rogers did the same thing with Trigger—some people actually do that with their pets— only it’s so morbid.

I go through different fixations when it comes to history: the Tudors, the Titanic, Mozart, Alexander Hamilton… And now I’ve been morbidly fascinated with the story of Floyd Collins, the unfortunate Kentucky man that got trapped in Great Sand Cave in 1925, ever since I discovered the musical via my Broadway Sirius XM channel. I checked out a book about the attempted rescue/salvage mission on Hoopla. I wasn’t expecting actual photographs…let me just say they were graphic.

Still a stupid thing to do. Better a theft conviction than a murder conviction.

If that guy really was telling the truth, then he kind of screwed himself by tossing the floppy into the river.

A Goofy Movie turning 30 has reawakened my nostalgia for Powerline Tevin Campbell. “Stand Out” is a banger, but listening to “I2I” will cheer anyone up, especially right now.

Understandable.

Yeah the fact that she and Megyn Kelly are Baldoni’s defenders tells you all you need to know. You don’t have to like Blake Lively to hate all the dog piling and slut shaming she’s getting. I just honestly can’t understand why people are buying Baldoni and his lawyer’s crap as gospel truth. Like the author of the video, I find him utterly repellent.

I really liked how this video blows a huge hole through Baldoni’s “soft boi feminist” facade by dissecting all of his podcasts that really just excused men and their misdeeds. It also calls out the myth of a “perfect victim” and why likability shouldn’t be used to judge the truth.

Admitting that they were wrong and that they made a bad choice that helped make everything worse and quit acting like they're so morally superior to everyone for not voting. Oh, and actually LEARN the lesson this time so we don't keep repeating the cycle. But they won't. They just keep doubling down and playing the victims.

Read The Friend by Sigrid Nunez after seeing the movie. Have to say the movie was better. The book has the bad habit of going off on a tangent with random facts and stories that completely veer away from the plot. Maybe other readers like it when books do that but I’m not one of them.