Please tell me this is limited to concert movies and not movie musicals, because that is NOT what you do at a stage show.

a woman wearing glasses is reading a piece of paper Alt: Sue Sylvester from Glee wearing glasses is reading a piece of paper

Me, an admitted Broadway musical fan since early childhood, when someone on TikTok says they've already seen the Wicked movie four times and have 12 pages of notes

Are these the especially great communicators the song is talking about?

Just gonna say from Phantom of the Opera to Sweeney Todd to West Side Story, you learn to love the new things they get right even knowing it will never replace the parts of the original you'll always carry. 🧵3/3 fin

But I'm also seeing people dealing with the normal anxiety for an adaptation of something they originally loved, and it's clear who hasn't been through this before. 🧵2/3

Being a theatre kid who doesn't like Wicked is a weird feeling with the movie coming out. Especially weird since the movie is only act 1, the intermission is going to last at least a year, and the 1.7 songs in it I actually like are done after that first act. 🧵1/3

Anybody out there have good advice to keep raccoons away from my house? They keep coming on my back porch and threatening my cat.

I swear, the audacity of some field grade officers. "You'll get the memo if we can find it."

Every once in a while I see some chud complaining I was a perfectly good writer until I started writing about politics and I'm all, motherfucker, I had a newspaper column where I wrote about politics long before I wrote novels, I was never NOT writing about politics, where the hell have YOU been

Call me crazy but I can't tell if MTG's all or nothing threat over her Republican colleagues' sex crimes is more circus or the smartest thing she's done in office (yes I know it's a low bar).

Still waiting on my profile picture to get fixed but I guess I'll do an intro.

No, I'm not Josh Duhamel. No, I don't like this movie and I don't know anyone who does.

It was until I went into profile settings and changed my display name. Not sure how long that'll keep it solved.