Spinning Belinda

At last, we’ve invented the guard who always lies from the hit riddle “one guard always tells the truth and one guard always lies”

this is a real video eric adams posted today.. not sure he remembers he's running for mayor or what at this point

the eric adams spectral sequence involves real-life specters

it's great that my students now can see advertisements for relevant products and services in the course of my class. the thought of students not being aware of great deals and exclusive offers breaks my heart as an educator

Sadiq khan in a suit

The Lord Mayor of London in a golden fucking carriage

Apparently London has both a “Mayor of London” (does normal mayor stuff) and a “Lord Mayor of London” (does civic events in costumes) and like, not to hand it to England, but I think I’ve figured out what we can do with Eric Adams

The weight of the job is too heavy for “Mamscrawny”

no way

Could be the very same?
A wooly cop with doggish face
And a mouse unlikely named.
Nothin' here but history
Can you see what has been done?
Half a brick rush over me
Now I step into the sun - POW!

And the remaining 1% of the time, the lampreys do the sucking

I think they already act like they don’t understand this

in a sense the garbage bag next to it is an even tinier little container

The Grok Ani stuff is absolutely fascinating in a morbid way. But I seem to be the only person who was killed dead in one blow by the name “Bad Rudy”

For technical reasons it’s useful to work over a simply-connected base

maybe eating breakfast

Pound for pound, sugar contains more salt than salt does.

when harry and sally met frankenstein

All he needs now is Darnel and it's the trifecta

abbot and costello meet wittgenstein

Many years later, as he faced the media's proverbial firing squad, Zohran Mamdani was to remember that distant afternoon when he went to confront ICE.

you reposted in the wrong episteme

brother in law of frankenstein

trace of a matrix is real life gematria

in the land of the no-year-olds, the one-year-old is king

OTOH, I think there is a particular type of “Broadway Singing” which seems to be the same everywhere, and it would make sense if you just didn’t like that style of singing. (I don’t either.)

It might depend a little bit on which musicals? Since they’re not all musically the same. A lot of them basically just have pop slop scores, and those just suck; you can dislike those and still appreciate, say, West Side Story or Sweeney Todd

(The second act of Here We Are is about a group of people who slowly go insane trapped in a room they can’t leave, and the same thing is happening to the characters on stage)

oh huh okay that level of divergence is very interesting. Like Berserk.

Fwiw I think I heard pretty negative things about Death Becomes Her from people I know (as opposed to critical buzz)

“Here We Are” was borderline unwatchable on stage, but I listened to just the cast album a couple nights ago and thought it was pretty good! (More controversially, I’d say the same about Sunday in the Park, but I’ve only seen a filmed version of that one and turned it off at intermission)

I think the problem might often be that the script and the musical are written by different people, and so they often just aren’t cohesive. So, eg, some Sondheim shows imo work better as albums than as shows (and conversely some musicals might be better without songs)