Parker

“Crustacean Thursday is a closed practice.”

If you* need me this weekend, no you don't.

*unless you are a speaker at the Next Stage Conference in Pasadena in which case I could not be more here for you!

I think we’re 10 years out from a Hozier musical and 3-5 from Ed Sheeran.

Not saying if I *like* any of these artists I just think we’re gonna see a huge uptick in jukebox musicals from current stars.

How many years out do you think we are from a Florence + The Machine musical? I think 8.

Guys I’m ready for the weekend. I think we should band together and beat up Thursday

I find myself enamored, conceptually, with Crustacean Thursday.

Substack has a Nazi problem. If you're starting a newsletter in 2025, you have other options and you absolutely should take them for moral and ethical reasons, imo. I'm on @buttondown.com and it's pretty great!

Can’t believe this exists and I also can’t go

How to Talk to Yourself never fails to hit. Had a bit of a good cry over this one.

Playing around with retroethnocheirology in case anyone was wondering (spoiler alert)

Having a busy Friday night slamming unrelated prefixes and suffixes together like some kind of pseudo-linguistical hadron collider.

New trek new trek!!!

Another great episode of the pod this week, and I’m surely not biased.

One day I WILL have a breakdown in a Total Wine & More and that’s both a promise and a threat!

This just in: I love hanging out with fellow immersive nerds and sometimes it’s recorded and that’s super cool.

Currently "celebrating" the 4th of July in the most patriotic way I can imagine: by renewing my passport (so I can LEAVE).

Oh no, my weakness: a well-structured rules list/glossary from the governing body of my current obsession.

Couldn’t agree more!

It can be so fun! Big debate tonight over 1:50:52 vs 1:50:53 (so technically triplets of numbers I suppose) but in the end 53 won out.

Just imagining what someone would walk in on tonight: me in my pjs, surrounded by pens and paper, alternately laughing hysterically at something I’ve seen easily 20+ times in the last 4 days and muttering inscrutable pairs of numbers to myself. Just another usual Sunday night!

Oh DAMN these spreadsheets are getting good!!

Other portions of the Obsession™ that we’ve reached include: retracing the creators’ research steps, social media stalking, planning 1-3 vacations, and podcasts.

Up next: decimating the library reservation systems of 3 separate cities.

We’ve got timecodes, we’ve got formatting, we’ve got acronyms, what more could you possibly want?!

We’ve reached the pen-and-paper-spreadsheet portion of the Obsession™ 👍

I’m still having a Musical Theater Summer in the best/worst way possible :)

This is a post about musical theater, btw.

I need to go to the bathroom, ineffectively splash cold water on my face, and then stare moodily into the mirror like the male lead of a prestige drama while I think about what I've done.

Can someone explain to me why for the last 96 hours I haven’t been able to think about anything but this mid-tier broadway musical from last season?

Unspeakably excited for this one!

Theme Parks & Immersive Double Header: DC Heroes & Villains Fest at Six Flags and more…(PODCAST) Plus an After Dark w/CNET’s Scott Stein, Overlook Film Fest’s Landon Zakheim, and the NoPro Review Crew

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