Anybody here seen this production already? Spousal Unit and I are making plans for when it reaches the Boston area next month — hopefully at the spoilt surburbanite comfy-chairs theatre.
We greatly enjoyed the Royal Opera House Sleeping Beauty ‘cinema event’ at the Revere theatre tonight, but there’s no dining option that involves actual food products…
(I am currently resisting the urge to rechristen our lanky ginger cat McRae… it’s not as though he responds to Rocket, except at dinner… )
Amir Khalid
Who do people do this?
Calouste
@Amir Khalid:
Because they’re assholes. SATSQ.
Jewish Steel
You know me. I detest kitsch. I’m certain these guys mean every note.
KADAVAR
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Jewish Steel:
I’ll bet they do. But I’ll take vintage over retro any day.
Pink Floyd Echoes (live at Pompeii)
raven
bemused
John, if are walking around today among the masses smiling and laughing at your lunar event blooper, be comforted in the thought that you will trigger irrational anger in most human hot messes you encounter.
raven
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NotMax
@raven
Perhaps it was working overtime.
raven
@NotMax: You see this guy solve the Wheel of Fortune puzzle? Insane, I wish I had him do my bracket.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Amongst them SLU beating NC State. I’m not much of college basketball fan but I do follow the boys from the old home town. Reading about a game like that makes me wish I was more of a fan.
the Conster
I saw the So tour in Boston in 2012. It was everything I hoped it would be and more. Can’t go wrong with PG greatest hits done live. Biko at the encore brought me to tears.
JPL
@raven: This is good news for Warren Buffett.
Wow, Charlie Rose just told me that the missing plane is still missing. How profound.
NotMax
@JPL
Could have been worse.
(cue Twilight Zone theme music)
Tonight we discuss the latest theory: the plane is there and we’re missing.
JPL
@NotMax: Paging CNN!
Baud
I’m starting to favor war with Russia. It’s because of them that I have to see even more John McCain on my tv. If that’s not an act of war, I don’t know what is.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: I love it and always have. When I lived in Urbana my old man would come down from Chicago and we’d go to every game of the Illinois high school tourney. That was back when the high school tourney in Illinois really overshadowed the NCAA’s.
different-church-lady
@the Conster: I waved to you but you didn’t see me!
Amazing that he hasn’t lost a bit on his voice from his prime. And T-Lev is a monster.
Xantar
Hello all.
I was summoned to jury duty for today, and my summons gave me a number somewhere above 8600. Yesterday, the court announcement said they were calling up everyone between 8000 and 8400. So just like that, my jury duty is over.
Which is lame. I actually wanted to see a case.
OzarkHillbilly
@Xantar: That has to be the lamest whine ever: “I wasn’t inconvenienced at all.”
.
;-)
raven
@Xantar: A good friend of mine, a naturalized Colombian, just got through with a murder case that lasted two weeks. She was exhausted mentally and physically. I’ve been on several fairly larger criminal cases and, while it’s important to do, it sucks.
Gin & Tonic
WSJ headline: Mt Gox Discovers 200000 Lost Bitcoins.
How fucking incompetent can you be?
raven
Mika wonders if Obama should be fiddling with Ellen while Rome burns?
Xantar
@OzarkHillbilly:
Well see I’m actually searching for my next job. A court trial would really break up the monotony nicely.
raven
Guns passed in Georgia, medical herb did not. No stupid ass religious freedom act.
Xantar
@raven:
Yeah, I should mention that I used to be a court clerk and ran several trials in my time there. So I would have been one of the few jurors who had a decent understanding of how the system should work. I like to think it would have made me a better juror.
Oh well.
raven
@Xantar: I almost always end up on a jury when I get called. I know the public defender and a bunch of lawyers in the DA’s office socially and I always think that will get me off but, noooooo.
Elizabelle
Snatched from her mother’s jaws.
The National Zoo is hand raising a little sloth bear.
This will make you smile. She’s kinda cute, and saved from a natural — but dreadful — fate.
She looks like a little puppy in her first photo.
ETA: And sloth bears, while not as glamorous as pandas, are cool in their own right.
raven
Mika is “horrified” that teenagers get drunk and take pictures. Horrified I tells ya.
Hahaha, a shrink is on explaining that the teenage brain is not fully developed and they can’t make good decisions. I know, give em a fucking M-60 and see how that works out!
Xantar
@raven:
See, your mistake there was knowing people from both the Public Defender and the DA’s office. Being acquainted with just one of them would make you biased. But knowing both makes you an impartial juror and thus perfect!
JenJen
Oooh thanks for the heads up! That looks really good. I’ll never forget Peter Gabriel’s Secret World tour. One of the best concerts I’ve ever attended, unforgettable really.
Baud
@raven:
Are you suggesting that war is more traumatic than sexting?
raven
@Xantar: Rats! Foiled again.
Cassidy
Diggin’ deep into the 80’s. I don’t mind, I like Jem and the Holograms, but I’d rather see a good He-Man and She-Ra movie first.
Gin & Tonic
@raven: You have no idea how happy I am that nobody had a camera in their pocket when I was a teenager.
MomSense
@raven:
Or give them a car. Ours came home last night looking like the terminator’s face after half of it was ripped off exposing the robotic eye. There are some parts of the car you just don’t want to see with the hood closed.
Hal
Watching today’s take while I’m at the dealership waiting for my car. Pretty terrible. Al Roker thinks the movie Say Anything was called save anything, and Tamron Hall compared the kid who climbed the world trade center to the daredevil she says Leonardo DiCaprio played in catch me if you can. He was a con artist and crook. Such fake banter and they clearly don’t know what they’re talking about.
SiubhanDuinne
AL, I also saw The Royal Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty last night. As with last month’s Swan Lake and January’s Giselle, I have seen many many performances and productions over the years, but this ranked right up there as among the best.
Hope you noticed that prima ballerina Sarah Lamb, who danced Princess Aurora, is a Boston girl!
SiubhanDuinne
@MomSense:
Yikes! Hope the car was the only thing damaged.
MomSense
@SiubhanDuinne:
Fortunately, yes. Seems the car lost a battle with some black ice and a snow (more like ice and dirt) bank.
Elizabelle
@raven:
I haven’t been on a jury for a long time, but when I was, it was a meaningful experience.
And not hard, in that case, to see what the verdict should be.
SiubhanDuinne
@MomSense: I’m sorry about the car, but very glad the humans involved were unscathed.
schrodinger's cat
In case people are interested, a brief primer about the Indian elections
MomSense
@SiubhanDuinne:
Teenager felt terribly about it. He was very upset with himself.
Amir Khalid
The debris seen in the south Indian Ocean search location is no longer to be seen. A day of searching in good weather and under clear skies has turned up nothing. The nations searching there for MH370 will try again tomorrow. We’ll be in for days and days of reports like this, I fear.
The shiny object of the day appears to be the presence, or not, of lithium-ion batteries. A reporter asked MAS chief executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, was there a shipment of them in the cargo hold? He said only that he could check on that. But Ahmad Jauhari did explain that, when packed as per International Civil Aviation Organisation regs, Li-ion batteries are not considered dangerous cargo. There’d be plenty of Li-ion batteries aboard anyway, in passenger’s cellphones and other digital gear.
Amir Khalid
@schrodinger’s cat:
I understand the Congress party’s real leader is Rahul Gandhi’s mother Sonia, who would happily hold the party leadership if it weren’t for the optics of a white foreign-born woman being at the helm of party and maybe country. Is Rahul seen as fronting for her?
schrodinger's cat
@Amir Khalid:
I don’t know, but the dependence of a party more than 100 years old on one family is rather pathetic.
Besides being the members of the Gandhi family what qualifications do either Sonia or Rahul bring to the table?
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: I posted this way back in the MH370 news cycle, but most people vastly underestimate the nothingness of the southern Indian Ocean. My own feeling is that in a year some flotsam might come ashore in Perth, but no big pieces will ever be found, and the black boxes are gone for good.
And today’s capstone of stupidity, for me at least, is the lede of the WaPo story saying ” a desperate race against time to find survivors or wreckage.” There are no survivors. Even if, by some miracle, the plane soft-landed on the ocean surface, nobody lives an hour in that water without a survival suit. And nobody, anywhere, lives two weeks without fresh water.
fidelio
The North Mississippi Commentor takes on Judge Posner and the chicken processors.
Here’s a taste:
I will have to note that nothing in my experience as a federal district judge’s clerk involved dressing up like a poultry processor, but then, perhaps that’s why circuit court clerkships are so much more prestigious.
The posts on barbeque (sliced vs. chopped) and rice and skillet corn with poblanos are lagniappe.
Amir Khalid
@Gin & Tonic:
A lame attempt to inject drama into the story, which is settling into a phase where there’s nothing to report but that the search continues with no real promise of success or of a happy ending.
But I think that a determined and prolonged search with one of James Cameron’s fancy submersibles would yield the location of MH370. It would then be up to the Malaysian government if they want to go to the bottom of the ocean to pick up the pieces.
cminus
So, in our Democratic primary for Mayor of the District of Columbia — which is usually a guarantee of a general election win, although this year it’s more of a strong likelihood as there’s a popular independent in the mix for the general — features in an eight-person field. The most recent poll shows two front-runners: the incumbent, who’s done an okay job as Mayor but is likely to be indicted soon on campaign finance and/or bribery charges, and a member of the city council, an empty suit whose platform consists solely of platitudes and lots of campaign cash from questionable sources.
They’re tied.
At 27%.
*headdesk*
Elizabelle
@cminus:
Yeah. That DC election makes me happy to be a Virginian, in danger as one is of repeated Cuccinnelli-grade candidates.
I kind of liked Adrian Fenty, but what do I know? (PS: I lived in DC during the Marion Barry and Sharon Pratt Kelly terms; think I’d moved by the time Anthony Williams was in office …)
Barney
For any Gabriel fans (or of rockumentaries in general), can I recommend the BBC spoof ‘Brian Pern’ videos? Look for them on YouTube, Pern takes a few things from various long-standing rock stars, but Gabriel is the primary one. They’ve done several short pieces – here’s a compilation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3jLy2MjMKc , with some more linked from there, and then this year they did 3 half hours called “Life of Rock”, if you can find them. Here’s the last scene in those: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuxyksVJpCo
BH in MA
I went to that theater many, many times during my teenager-dom in the 1980s. What the hell did they do to it?
ranchandsyrup
The San Diego opera house is shutting down after a fifty year run.
Cervantes
@ranchandsyrup: Yes, that’s what happens when public funding is denied to the arts and we have to depend on the kindness of the rich instead.
At any rate, I will be there at the last show.
Ruckus
@Cervantes:
What are you talking about? The rich have much kindness.
OK, it’s for them getting more stuff they don’t need. And they have a kindness for the money they make from other peoples sweat. Or steal outright. But other than that…..
Cervantes
@Ruckus:
Yes, indeed, charity begins at home (1 Timothy 5:8). It is the tenet of their faith.