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It's so nice to be back home where I belong...
My my my, it’s been a while…but at least this time I kept my promise not to write in bullet format. Here goes:
Im wunderschönen Monat MaiThe month of May was a bit of a calm-before-the-storm of summer opera season. I attended a very delightful opera scenes program at WU (this semester was a “circus” theme-complete with dogs doing tricks, I kid ( Read more... ) -
OMGISAWMARGARETCHO!
That extremely garbled subject header translates to: I saw one of my favorite comedians last night. Yes, Margaret Cho was in town at WashU...and I couldn't miss it for the world. I've always enjoyed her comedy, whether topical or political, and she delivered last night. Here are just a few of the bits:
- "Ann Coulter is such a slave to the ( Read more... )
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random flotsam n jetsam
The MUNY has announced (via its website) three of its seven summer shows: Fiddler on the Roof, Miss Saigon and The Producers. The first one gives me a good reason to audition...the second one will be an excuse to bring back Eric Kunze...and the third one--fun as it is--will be censored to death, mark my words. Looking forward to what else we can ( Read more... ) -
Candidate Match Game
USA Today put out a Candidate Match Game where you can take a quiz of 11 multiple-choice questions on 7 different issues, and the quiz will reveal (in bar-chart form) the top 3 candidates most like you. My top 3:
1. Hillary Clinton (D)
2. Mike Gravel (D)
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politics?
So, I've not gotten very political lately on my blog ( Read more... ) -
Are you reading this, O'Lielly?
Sometimes I wonder if a certain family member has been watching Bill O'Reilly and not telling me. Almost every Christmas season, I get some sort of e-mail forward from them with the same overdone themes, statements and hysteriae:
- "There's a WAR on Christmas!" (usually sqwawked by O'Lielly)
- "It's a Christmas Tree, not a Holiday Tree!!!"
- "You ( Read more... )
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Happy Halloween!
Hope you all have a happy all hallows eve! I shall be going out to a costume-optional party ( Read more... ) -
Voting on the Superficial
I just read an article citing that waste of skin, Bill O'Reilly, as saying that one can't "get more presidential than Mitt Romney." Read it here if you don't believe me ( Read more... ) -
How's that for family values...
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Ann Coulter | Opera Jaunts | Live Journal Exodus?
Quick rant: I want to see Ann Coulter discredited, humiliated, destroyed and exposed for the hate she spews just as much as any other decent American. However, it's only going to happen in one of two ways:
1. She goes even further than "f*ggot" by dropping "n*gger," "k*ke," or "sp*c" at a future speaking engagement. (Joke or no joke, all of these ( Read more... )