Oh, here it comes, the sound of drums....
I've posted some Bloomingdale's photos to my Flickr. Last night the NYPD inexplicably blocked off a lot of roads, making it difficult for me to drive out of Manhattan back to Queens. Yes, Summer Streets would start in a few hours but they'd also blocked off areas away from Park Avenue.
At one point Rogue Traders' "Voodoo Child" played in my car and it took me back. Such a fun era of Doctor Who.
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I don't pay for Dropout to see the four episodes in full, but I've been happily picking up bits and pieces of Dimension 20's Misfits and Magic on YouTube. It's a great and often funny campaign, with players who have major chemistry portraying great characters. American fans of Harry Potter--but not JK Rowling--drag HP's worldbuilding for four episodes as they play American exchange students at a Hogwarts-like school. Instead of DMing, Brennan Lee Mulligan is playing as a teen unwillingly chosen to be a Dark Lord whose life is really messed up as a result. Aside from his haunted homeless orphan, there's a wholesome basketball jock, a girl who's streaming a muckbang when her owl arrives, and a darkity dark girl who may be a slight nod to "My Immortal"'s protagonist.
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Inside has had a brief theater run, and I have mixed feelings, not that I'll get to go to a screening. It was made to be seen on a screen at home by yourself or with people allowed to be near you, not in a huge dark room surrounded by strangers, but it'd be nice to see it large and loud. I also have mixed feelings about the way some people are treating these screenings like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, singing and quoting along, particularly since Bo Burnham hated people singing along or yelling during his live performances (partly because a lot of his work is tightly choreographed and timed, but also...). But I can easily understand people putting their fucking hands up and getting out of their seats for "All Eyes on Me," not that I'd do it. In some screenings, some viewers cry out "Socko!" with joy as Socko shows up in "How the World Works." I've heard... that some people brought a hand sock.
I wonder how he feels about his work on the perils of social media and living digitally leading to a mass of YouTube reaction videos and TikToks or how he grew his hair and beard to show lockdown life and the deterioration of his mental health but for a lot of people he became a thirst trap looking like that. We should all have such problems, right, but it must sting a bit. You can comment here or at the Dreamwidth crosspost.
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