I have a red graduation gown and white denim jacket that I could shoddily pass off as a Conclave cosplay, but my brain feels I would require completion (which I don't have time for) so I feel I could just throw on a white shirt and black pants as Sodascout/Tom Francis's Joe in SUNSET BOULEVARD.

I hope I get into #TheLostBoysMusical panel at #NYCC.

I really really gotta plan for how I'm going to see Rachel Zegler on that balcony when EVITA (very likely) transfers.

I loved Abby Wambaugh's inventive "The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows" at Dixon Place. I reviewed it for New York Theatre Guide: www.newyorktheatreguide.com/reviews/the-...

I could throw on a white shirt, dark jacket, and dark pants... so I can be... Sodascout. I can review sodas. I also happen to be in the Jaime Lloyd revival of SUNSET BOULEVARD. Look, I just want to think of an easy #NYCC cosplay.

For Friday I got a spare free ticket OCTOBER 10 AT 8:00PM for Ethan Coen's new play, LET'S LOVE at the Atlantic off-Broadway. Yes, on a NYCC night. I'm looking for a plus one. Personal Indoor Masking Rule. Need a plus one's quote too. DM if interested.

Read the Ethan Coen short plays…

Trying to reschedule my WAITING FOR GODOT cause I really want to go to the Broadway NYCC mixer. On the other hand, to say you have to miss a mixer cause you got to go see Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in a Samuel Beckett revival is a privileged position.

Anyone want to meet me at #NYCC?

The administration has determined that if you describe this accurately for what it is, you are also an enemy of the state

#DeadEndParanormalPark surfaced into the public consciousness for the worst, transphobic reasons possible. It was a few years ago I reviewed the cartoon on @slashfilm.bsky.social and discussed its exploration of a kid's transgender experience. www.slashfilm.com/898746/dead-...

"Be careful of ICE. Don't get picked up by ICE... Be careful, those guys." The first time I got that kind of concern. The context being I was phone-chatting with a nice Texan in his 70s to ask questions about an ancestor (well, late grandmother) who was an influential Mexican Asian American.

Seated for “Hannah Gadsby Presents: Abby Wambaugh’s The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows” at Dixon Place.

I’m at a NYC community garden lecture. Guy asked a good question, “How you dealing with the rats?” “Cats. The Department of Sanitation would tell you differently. But. Feral. Cats. Help.”

#HazbinHotel got your heart? The first THE LOST BOYS: THE MUSICAL live performance? Betty Boop (Jasmine Amy Rogers) coming back to NYCC after #BOOP? For theatre kids, I wrote a roundup of Broadway panels, stars, and events at #NYCC. www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news...

It was my first time getting flu & SARS-CoV-2 vaccines at the same time. Second time I got the protein-based Novavax and I’m glad to report it doesn’t seem to elicit bodily ezcema-like rash side effects (I get rashes often with the common cold) like my Moderna shots.

Sigh, can't like journalists just have full, no-cost access to like Newspaper online archives, particularly for research? Do I really have to subscribe?

I got my primary care's referral so I'm looking into a general surgeon for lipoma removal in NYC.

Started reading THE HOUSE OF THE PAIN OF OTHERS, tracing the elusive web strings of collective memory and historical “absence” to comprehend the 1911 Torreón massacre of Chinese Mexicans.

If any outlet is still searching, I am press accredited for next week's NYCC and have room in my schedule. I have covered NYCC events for 5+ years.

By extension, Elon Musk and the transphobes are coming after this Netflix streaming cartoon movie.

I am starting to see criticism of #DeadEndParanormalPark writing that just feels out of bad faith. And the transphobia is bad, but they’re also talking about the writing as a kid’s cartoon.

We already been trained to have some Pavlovian anxiety when dogs appear in horror movies. #GoodBoy is a very good 74-minutes, a love letter to the instinctual love a dog has for his human, and the anxiety of not understanding his human's agony.

God bless Blake Roman!

It's really really miserable to see #DeadEndParanormalPark resurface on my timeline, not to bemoan Netflix's cancelation, but because of transphobia and the malicious incuriosity over a kid's cartoon that engages in the psychological damage of family transphobia.

"So I jumped ship. I jumped ship to part-time retail and freelance writing mostly focused on theatre." Pretty much explaining my current situation at a NYFF film critic's mixer.

ALERT! I finally ran into a stranger who not only said “I like your hat!” but they knew exactly where the quote comes from! I paraded this hat at airports, Star Wars Celebration, and comic cons and strangers would tell me “I like your hat!” “So you’ve seen the musical COMPANY?” Blank stares.

Please report this fucking AI slop. Goddamnit. www.amazon.com/KALEB-HORTON...

Guys, say congratulations to me. I got the results of test back. I definitely got a tumor... that's non-cancerous... cause it's a lipoma. Still very annoying.

I had to miss out on Jafar Panahi's IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT at #NYFF63 because I had to stay in the apartment so our super can repair our wall, but on the bright side, I just got sent these screeners and I'm just wolfing them down.

BREAKING: The Global Sumud Flotilla organisers have declared a state of emergency on board, as they prepare for the expected Israeli interception of their mission to break the blockade of Gaza.

*spits drink* Oh, I got the *the screeners* without warning.

Well, I'm sure learning a bit about mestizo racial nationalism through these books.

#GoodBoy NY premiere!

If I even get in, I think this GOOD BOY screening is going to be one of those crowded chaotic event before and after. Doors were technically scheduled to open at 6:30 so the movie can start at 7:30. I’m still in a crowded line.

FINALLY, I got my hands on MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN and watched it.

For NYC people, this is short notice but I got a spare ticket to a Brooklyn screening of GOOD BOY with Q&A and reception. If anyone wants to join me, message me.

Excited about #KissOfTheSpiderWoman movie. I've watched the NYPL-archived videorecording of the Broadway production.

#TheAmazingAdventuresofKavalierAndClay is a hot mess of an adaptation and opera itself on the comic book WWII era (watered down for libretto concessions), but it also can have devastatingly beauty as expected from Bartlett Sher and momentous music by Mason Bates.

"Well you can wipe off that grin, I've know where you've been It's all been a pack of lies." www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZj8...

Delighting in the customers at the retail store when they go looking for #KPopDemonHunters stuff. An elderly woman was telling us, "My granddaughter watched that movie 20 times. She knows all the songs!" while buying Huntrix stickers.

"The magician's greatest trick is not to vanish, but to reappear..." I nearly did facepalm at what came after. This is the sort of material that needs to unravel into three acts or requires a stretched-out Act 2, but I doubt a production would deem it consumable to invest in that kind of scale.

My review of the Broadway play PUNCH, adapting Jacob Dunne's memoir on the restorative justice journey that unified him with the parents of the man he killed. Will Harrison and Victoria Clark really make this sing, along with Robbie Butler’s lighting design and Leanne Pinder's movement direction.

I guess the opera version came before any movie/TV adaptation of #TheAmazingAdventuresOfKavalierAndClay. I got lucky to snag a Met Opera $61 family circle that wasn’t available yesterday as a “consolation prize” for losing the $25 lotto.

I’m going to write a letter this week. It would be cool if y’all did too.

Am I procrastinating by going onto my library Transparent to learn Greek alphabets and greetings instead of writing?

"Can I ask you something?" "Sure." "Are you Japanese?" My eyes widen over my respirator. "No, I'm Vietnamese American." "Oh. I asked because I love Japan so much!" "This store sells all kinds of Asian stuff, from China, Japan, and more..." What did she wanted to say to a Japanese Asian?