Which was the sidebar module with ads from RMX Direct. You remember: The one that kept offering you free crap and serving up photos of a shirtless, tattooed Eminem, among other celebrities.
Because while Mr. Mathers' biceps are undoubtedly arresting, Tboy declines to be confronted with the image of Paris Hilton and her wee dog before he's had his second cup of coffee -- and he suspects you didn't like it much, either.
This guy, though I didn't know him. I wish to hell I'd known somebody like him when I was in high school. It's a measure of how fast the world's changing that there was nobody like him when I was in high school.
This broad--and she was, in the best of all possible senses, a broad. Didn't know her, but I did meet her (at a gay-j thing, I think it was, where she spoke), and she was funny and warm and not the least bit taken by her success.
And yes, this horse. I know, it doesn't make any sense -- but it breaks my heart that he didn't get to live out his life doing the stud thing, getting laid and eating the good hay and not having to run.
Here's my wish: We should all be as moved by the people around us, by their triumphs and their agonies, as we were by this animal and his.
Or at least Tboy thinks so. There was a bit of Javascript that was designed to pull content from elsewhere on the Internets. But for some reason, like a little Java black hole, it was sucking in all the content from the mainbar into the sidebar.
No more. Tboy has squashed it like a bug. He hopes.
Somebody please give him a shout if there's any more trouble, OK?
If you missed Kryztov L.'s Enoch Arden recommendation down in the comments on this post, here's a link to the Amazon.com page for the recording. Which, as Kryztov points out, he worked on. Which Tboy thinks is cool, seeing as how Tboy reviewed him once upon a time -- in, what was it, La Bete? ...
Tboy has just ordered a copy for his own self. But don't count on a review: In these days of the newly classicalized WETA-FM, Tboy is rather enjoying just listening to stuff...
... a little offering in honor of everyone's favorite musical-theater composer. Because some of you may not have gotten to Signature for Into the Woods yet.
Also because Oh, My, God. How often do you figure these two got beat up in junior high?
Talk about agony.
No, actually Tboy loves these guys greatly -- they're complete dorks, but Tboy loves them for wanting it so badly.
But if you need a palate-cleanser, there's video of the guys from the 1990 London production over here.
Took a night off from theater tonight, in favor of the music drama -- which is to say the opera. Except this was a concert staging of an opera, so more music than drama. Or maybe not, because there was a little minimal moving-about of people, and a surprising amount of characterization going on among the principals.
Aaaanyway. The opera was Salome, which is roughly 3/4 of the Wilde play set to some of the noisiest and most gorgeous orchestral taffy-pulling Richard Strauss ever came up with. Which is saying something.
Die-hard Synetic followers will remember that Tboy rather likes Salome, chiefly for its excesses. Now imagine those excesses scored for unhinged soprano and backed by a 100-piece orchestra, and you'll have a faint idea of how much fun Tboy had tonight.
Or you could just watch the big finish (in two parts):
That was La Leontyne, for those of you who never saw her onstage. Tonight's Salome, as you may have read in last weekend's WashPo, was the su-effing-perb Debbie Voigt, which isn't the same kinda voice at all, though they're both glorious in their own way.
p.s.: This ain't a review, so Tboy's not going to do the whole name-everybody-and-say-something-about-their-contributions thing. But the entire lineup was pretty damn good.
p.p.s: Tim Page, who's a really nice guy in addition to having a Pulitzer on his bookshelf, was there. He liked it, too.
Tboy, you may have noticed, has been playing around with new ad servers and ad providers. He apologizes for the recent spate of lingerie (unless you're into that), and hopes that that'll sort itself out soon.
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