I'm still coming down from the adrenaline rush

This is what you expect to hear when you say hello to that weird recluse who lives a few houses down.

Three manual organ.

Pale vaguely-reddish surrounded by pipes

Got a call at 10:02 for a musician no-show at a 10am funeral two towns over, and could I make it to fill in?

And somehow I did.

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

This is so cathartic, because this is how I want to talk to that weirdo.

My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that
right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus

Breaking news now Trump extends ceasefire with Iran, saying the country's 'fractured' leadership needs time to put forward a unified peace plan goose meme who fractured the leadership? who fractured the leadership?

It was announced as a limited run in December. The plan is to take it on the road after Broadway.

It took several minutes and then suddenly I realized, "Oh, she's THAT brilliant."

Also making the connection that "We're Having a Baby" is something I first heard on I Love Lucy.

Jacqueline Susann! (The Playbill cover, um, unsharable)

Donald Trump is very unpopular and being seen as opposing Donald Trump in clear moral terms is an almost instant path to political and cultural relevance.

Israeli strike hits Gaza church, killing 3 and wounding priest who was close to Pope Francis An Israeli shell slammed into the compound of the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip, killing three people and wounding 10 others, including the parish priest, according to church officials.

Just hours after war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu sanctimoniously scolded us about how Israel and the IDF respect other faiths.

apnews.com/article/gaza...

Screenshot of Audra McDonald at the London Palladium with view of the audience singing captioned [Audra McDonald hits a high note]

Likely thing for her to do...

Tea

However bad you think it is, it's worse.

A Little Bit in Love (From "Wonderful Town") YouTube video by Shani Wallis - Topic

Fun fact: Shani Wallis was Eileen in the West End premiere of Wonderful Town in 1955. youtu.be/j7VgpbTdhZc?...

and she was right to.

OLLY OLLY OXEN FREE!

Hayley & Juliet Mills | Vivien Leigh, Walt Disney & Not Wasting Time... YouTube video by The Rosebud Podcast

A tremendously lovely lady. (Juliet and Hayley did a joint podcast appearance last week) www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaUF...

"It's a Hit!" Merrily We Roll Along, 1981.

My brother listened to Jason Alexander on a podcast and then approached me with questions about Merrily We Roll Along.

I started pulling images from the 1981 Broadway production for him to see, including this shot I hadn’t seen or noticed before, and I realized “This screams flop.”

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

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Juliet heard it. And ran with it.

Victoria Toensing @VicToensing Hubby being sworn in as Counsel to the Attorney General. 4:04 PM · Apr 20, 2026 · 6,199 Views Jason Reding Quiñones, the US Attorney in Miami, swearing in a much shorter Joe DiGenova.

Joe DiGenova, whose wife once solicited payments from foreigners to lie about Joe Biden in 2019, just got sworn in to investigate things those things he lied about in the past.

Over the weekend I laid out why this is so problematic.

emptywheel.net/2026/04/19/t...

That's the musical.

Salonika!

The Last Five Years (25th Anniversary Live at the London Palladium) by Ben Platt, Rachel Zegler & Jason Robert Brown on Apple Music Album · 2026 · 15 Songs

Rachel Zegler's new cast album has dropped. music.apple.com/us/album/the...

Maxwell Caulfield and Juliet Mills, early in their relationship.

No wonder every picture I've seen of Juliet Mills over the past 45 years is of her smiling.