Vampire musicals: Broadway GOLD!

ALmost as funny as The Woman in White as a Broadway musical, and with much, much more potential for lamé and prancing.

Shrift, there's some good SG-1 porn on Kernezelda's LJ, complete with, you know, Aliens Made Us Do It cliche.

shrift! How was your trip?

Hi, Nilly! The trip was good. Traffic was annoying, but nothing worse than I'm used to. I made merry with many Buffistas, and was sad to leave.

Now I am so buried in work that I barely can find my desk under it all.

Lestat! Or Don't Vamp Me, I'm only the Piano Player.

Shrift, there's some good SG-1 porn on Kernezelda's LJ, complete with, you know, Aliens Made Us Do It cliche.

And of course, I'm at work, so I'm not really allowed to go there. Maybe later when I'm home, if I can tear myself away from my Deadwood DVDs.

Someday, far in the future, when the Royals don't suck and the tickets sell like hotcakes, the stadium owner will be very sad that he does not have more seats.

Not really. The new proposed A's stadium has many, many less seats. We've got the biggest walk up biz in the majors and it kills season ticket sales. The new owner (savvy guy, loves the team) wants a cozy little Fenway sized park that'll breed intimacy and season tickets. He'll make his money back by including condos in the development, and special luxury suites which are much closer to the field than standard luxury suites.

Now I am so buried in work that I can barely find my desk under it all.

Poor desk. At least Suela (Hi back, too!) has some distraction suggestions for you.

Another new A's stadium? I only just made it to the current one this past May, I haven't gotten over my "it's not like it was"-ness yet.

Don't the A's have a huge walkup biz because everyone knows that the park never sells out? That's sort of a chicken-egg situation.

A smaller stadium means fewer tickets to sell before they sell out, but it also means that, when your team is in the World Series, you're still selling fewer tickets. (The Cards' stadium is I think about 50,000, while Fenway, including standing room tickets, houses 38,000 max before the Fire Department intervenes. Lots of people flew to St. Louis and bought tickets there, because your chances of getting into Fenway were infinitesimal.) Maybe you could make up the gross with way higher prices, but higher prices in a market where the park never sells out anyway? Kind of a risk.

The only reason it works in Boston is the tradition of being mad for baseball. And even so, there have been years (decades) when the "lyric little bandbox" housed 5,000 spectators and 30,000 empty chairs. (The prices were, I presume, lower then.)

I read a bit in the Times the other day about Camden Yards' luxury suites. I think they're the plain old-fashioned kind of suites, but, they aren't selling too well. Too much competition from football, hockey/basketball, and all the other available corporate luxury sports venues. Maybe this A's fellow has found the trick around that problem; maybe not.