The girl is obsessed with musicals. So my evil plan to raise a daughter who wants to go to musicals with me is proceeding nicely. Unfortunately I forgot to create an evil plan for being able to afford to take her to all the musicals she wants to see.
Simon: You are my beautiful sister. River: I threw up on your bed. Simon: Yep. Definitely my sister.
'War Stories'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sj - Feb 07, 2026 10:59:33 am PST #11478 of 11480
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
erikaj - Feb 07, 2026 11:11:27 am PST #11479 of 11480
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Funding is often a wrinkle in all but the most evil Evil Plans.(Those fuckers just keep having money that they couldn't earn with the force of their odious personalities.) Today is going to kind of end up like Xmas in February--we ate the last Christmas tamales and I have a writing-craft lecture this afternoon that I paid for with gift money---it's a whole year's series from One Story...some Buffistas who write should check them out. I think today's is about giving characters agency in a world where you don't have control. or something like that, where maybe I could teach the damn class, but, hey, it's a reason to bust out my silver earrings.
dcp - Feb 07, 2026 12:50:50 pm PST #11480 of 11480
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
musicals
When I was in 8th grade, the school play that year was West Side Story. It was a small school, K-12 totaled about 400 kids, so the casting was not very selective. I was a Shark.
I didn't understand some of the lyrics we were singing. Dad had to explain to me about the various racial and ethnic epithets. He also had to explain the term, "social disease" from the song "Officer Krupke."