I am *such* a geek.

Yesterday, brian1789 and I went to see The Producers.

At one point, Leo Bloom (Matthew Broderick) says, "So when is it going to be my day? When is Bloomsday?"

I leaned over to brian1789 and whispered, "June 16th."

He just gave me a weird look.

The perfect present.

geekchick just gave me the perfect present: I love it, and it will drive the kids absolutely batshit crazy. : )

Mwahahahahaha.


(For the record, it was the CD set of the music to the PBS series "Broadway: The American Musical".)

Erg.

I like Starbucks. Yes, I know all about their crappy business practices in some places -- how they run "mom and pop" coffee shops out of business. My local SB provides a neighborhood hanging out place that simply did not exist before, and helps keep a once almost derelict strip shopping area alive. (That, and they actually give benefits to their workers.) Also, people get annoyed at some of their cutesy drink names, too, and various other things.

But however you feel about Starbucks, there is no excuse for this. Or this.


Thanks to mactavish and geminigirl for the links.

No no no no no no NO.

"The problem, methinks, goes back to the collegiate roots of Shevelove's conceit. ("Brek-kek-kek-kek," the watchcry of these frogs, comes from the old Yale football cheer.) " (review of Sondheim's The Frogs)

And where do you think the football cheer came from, you moron?

A-R-I-S-T-O-P-H-A-N-E-S

*headdesk**headdesk*

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So what is it with Puccini and Broadway and Law and Order?

La Boheme =>Rent/Jesse L. Martin (whom I will gladly pay good money to watch read the phone book) => Law & Order

Madame Butterfly=> M.Butterfly/B.D. Wong (who doesn't have to even read the phone book, just stand there) => L&O: SVU

I am getting punchy. I need to stop reading IBDb.com/IMDb.com and check on the laundry.

Oh, of the seven other primary characters in the movie version of Rent, four of those actors have had guest shots on either L&O or SVU at some point in their careers: Anthony Rapp and Wilson J. Heredia were on SVO, and Tye Diggs (speaking of people who only have to stand there) and Tracie Thoms were on L&O. All but Thoms had been in the original Broadway cast.

I'm sure it has to do with the fact that all the L&O shows are shot in New York.