I have reached the point in playing Hades 2 that I think I might actually need to learn how to play video games well to be able to beat Chronos in round 2.

Excited to make it out to @folger.edu and very grateful for their continued masking-required nights during the run of their shows.

Closed the show, and now it’s time to… go see someone else’s show. Heigh ho the glamorous life.

Sitting out the last of my three choir concerts this week because of the coughing attacks from this dumb cold. Truly the worst timing, but at least it means I can stay in for the night and try to recharge my utterly depleted battery.

I’m rereading Cat Sebastian’s We Could Be So Good, and y’all, the YEARNING in this book! It’s off the charts!!

Made it home from a blessedly uneventful concert (love that that’s the goal these days) just in time to sit down for at least the opening of Crítical Role campaign 4. Let’s GO.

The real trick of syncopation is when you syncopate the syncopation and sing on the downbeat, which in the hands of this conductor is often an upbeat? Anyway, concert is going to be great.

Can we just admire Jane Fonda, please? She is a true patriot, inspiration, and role model. "When I feel scared, I look to history. I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers — but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked — time and time again — is solidarity."

My cellphone, which still has a Louisiana number, has been signed up for announcement voicemails from the Lafayette Parish Magnet Schools. I have spoken to many lovely people who sound like home today, but no one seems to know how to fix this, so I look forward to finding how how their year goes.

My sexy bone spurs have the hot new accessory for this fall, a night splint! Play safe kids, you can ratchet it up over time.

I went to look up one of the character names during rehearsal tonight for Daphnis et Chloe and discovered a truth I immediately shared, probably a little too loudly: “oh look, they’re all lesbians!”

In order to preserve my sanity, I engaged in a little conversation with someone on Instagram who really wanted to sell me book promotion services, and I LOVE fake services who take money, often from new or self-pubbed authors. So...

This is such an unexpectedly lovely move!!

The only good part of being sick with this cold that swooped in full force yesterday morning is that I like tea now.

OOF overheard someone confess that bc they struggle with writing, have used ChatGPT to help them with emails congratulating students after performances, and I gotta say, I would so vastly prefer a clumsy note from a human to empty praise from a bot in every conceivable situation.

Yes PLEASE.

Found out today I sent someone the wrong version of an invoice, then corrected the invoice and emailed the person back and forgot to attach the invoice. Someone please send help, I clearly need it.

Just started our annual Halt & Catch Fire rewatch and needed to hear this first.

Officially heading with my choir to sing at Carnegie Hall and the UN in May, crashing with my sister to save on funds, and one way or another, I’m going to make it work.

The ability to know with a first taste that a can of Diet Coke is expired is truly a cursed gift. I never asked for this.

Ok but, The Fall of Centauri Prime?? I am devastated, I am done, I have to go to WORK now at the CHILDREN’S THEATRE what have I done.

Just in case, it feels worth mentioning that we have a show opening this week in Silver Spring, MD designed for families with kids 4-8 years old. It’s a fun folk tale blend of TYA and forum theatre and theatre of the oppressed, all for early childhood. Ask me for info!

Just in case, it feels worth mentioning that we have a show opening this week in Silver Spring, MD designed for families with kids 4-8 years old. It’s a fun folk tale blend of TYA and forum theatre and theatre of the oppressed, all for early childhood. Ask me for info!

I grew up in Louisiana, moved to DC after college, and then out to Maryland, right into the Senator's home precinct. No one's perfect, but I can't describe the RELIEF of having representation that feels like it's striving to represent you for the first time.

FIND THE COURAGE TO BE WHAT THE MOMENT REQUIRES

Ohhhhhh I am HERE FOR THIS.

@writeravenwrite.bsky.social happy birthday, friend!!!! The world is bad but you are great and deserving of good things, today and always. ❤️

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I know the point of the song Fever Dog in “Almost Famous” is that it sounds good at first but you get sick of it over time, unlike so much of the other music that makes up the film’s soundtrack, but also? That first verse absolutely slaps and I will not back down.

I did not anticipate how much the subtext of The Vampire Lestat would be “interview with THE vampire, bitch, I’ll show you how to interview VAMPIRES, plural!”

One of the nice things about being the kind of theatre critic that just writes on their own blog is that when I am not up to writing a full review (and under no obligation to do so), no one can stop me from posting up a bullet point list of scattered thoughts and calling it done.

Hell yeah, babyyyyyy

The world is pretty shit right now and if this traffic makes me late to see The Inheritance Part Two I may actually explode and make it all someone else’s problem.

Bruh

I am a little embarrassed at how WELL Critical Role's strategy to release little bits of info at a time about the next campaign is working to get me hyped. But the latest technique of having the cast comment on their own and OTHERS' characters is such FUN.

Visited the podiatrist this morning and the diagnosis: bone spurs, but make it sexy.

I am overhearing a teacher passionately try to explain the many reasons to her middle school students why not only can they not use generative AI per school policy, it is a bad idea for their own personal growth and capacity for knowledge.

I THOUGHT the new Knives Out sounded right up my alley!

The hardest part of playing DnD on Saturday nights is that I have to drink a lot of caffeine to get through the game and then the half hour drive back home, but then that caffeine doesn’t magically exit my veins when I get home and uh oh, I have to get up early tomorrow to sing every week.

Why have I seen so many Pericleses and Merry Wives and not a SINGLE Two Noble Kinsmen??

In the midst of It All, I only just remembered that I wanted to make soup on the ninth to celebrate unofficial Locked Tomb Day, goldurnit.

Whether or not you support political violence won’t change where we’ve come to, nor where we’ve been for some time in this country. I am quite taken aback by how many people only invoke the term ‘political violence’ when it happens to a person with power. It’s political violence the other way too.

Absolutely wild how necessary this research is, and how long it's taken for it to happen, and how frightening that in our current environment, it may be cut off.

My favorite thing is when the hyperspecific story entirely out of your experience is baked in such truth that it feels intensely personal, so I’m excited there is new @themountaingoats.bsky.social coming so that I can add it to my next ttrpg playlist like it was written just for my weirdo PC.

It’s been a long time since I watched Lost in Austen, but my LORDY, I had forgotten how very 2008 it all is. I do wish it was more in conversation with the rest of Austen’s works, but it’s still very charming thus far.

He ONLY kills bad people and he got HIMSELF back up on his feet in the 80s with no help from ANYONE and now he is an American Rock Superstar, these are all TRUE THINGS and if you don’t buy it it’s only because maybe his English vernacular isn’t caught up yet.

I'm working to update our list of local elementary schools that we invite to attend our TYA show this fall for free, and the absolute best part is seeing what their school mascots are. Top of the list are the ones who combine both alliteration and relevance to location.

Ok, folks, youngest nephew wants to audition for LaGuardia HS and needs some monologue ideas. He's not super drawn to their limited suggestions for dudes, where's the meaty stuff that a teen with a dream could check out?

Tonight I watched Misery for the first time, and truly, the sequence when Sheldon drives on that unplowed, twisty mountain road in the snow is what most felt like my actual nightmares come to life.

GOD that Swiss roll on Bake Off. I actually gasped aloud.