I would like to eat at the Fight Club version of that today. I am Jack's complete inability to do housework sounds about right for lunch.

I'll have the querulous, hold the toast.

The other totally weird chain of vegan restaurants is Loving Hut. Those ones are all over the world, and run by the Supreme Master people. No weird ordering rules, and the food is generally pretty good (they're franchised, and each one can decide on their own menu, though it's usually mostly Vietnamese food with a few local things mixed in -- crepes at the ones in France, burgers at the ones in the US, and so on), but you're surrounded by screens broadcasting Supreme Master propaganda, with subtitles in about five different languages. All stuff about how the world is going to end if we don't all love the earth, become vegan, and listen to the Supreme Master.

Was someone in here talking about 1776 at ACT? John Adams is being played by an old friend of mine, John Hickok.

Hil, my friend C has done the sound design for both of the Supreme Master's TV specials the past couple of years. Hilarious. They are crazy, but very, very nice. Also excellent vegan food.

C has gotten personal notes of thanks from the SM each year. And a Christmas present, which none of us can figure out.

As cults go, you could do worse.

John Adams is being played by an old friend of mine, John Hickok.

Scrappy, he was excellent! It was a really good performance: great cast, excellent voices, good timing, nice costuming. Really nicely done. And Rutledge's solo about the Triangle Trade was a tour-de-force. Just a really good production, although it does bog down at a few points when it's all just political wrangling.

My dad really enjoyed it, and then we took him to John's Grill for dinner, where we had steaks and seafood and we got to see The Maltese Falcon.

I am currently get baleful looks from Charlie because his bed is not where it should be, but instead is in the washing machine, because I spilled diet dr pepper all over it.

I think I may go back to bed.

I have been reading your college experiences with interest. Quick comments. .

The majority of college students in this country do not go to small liberal arts institutions. They commute, have families, are a bit older than 21. The classic view the media portrays about college students hadn't been true (as a majority experience) in decades.

I was really alarmed that anyone was made to feel badly about needing financial aid or feeling like an outsider. God.

The worst? It has gotten worse since you went to college. The income strat for the elite institutions is off the charts.

And Rutledge's solo about the Triangle Trade was a tour-de-force

That's a terrific number.