Up front: I enjoy Disney stuff. I just went to their Not So Scary Halloween party. That said, I had a bit of a literary rage moment the other day. Someone was talking about a local performance of The Little Mermaid. Trying to be up front, the producers apparently made a point of letting everyone …
Back when the short-lived Wonderland musical was workshopping / previewing in Tampa, I had a chance to see one of those early versions. I’m told the show changed sizably in the meantime (though, of course, not enough to last long on Broadway). In the version I saw, however, the Alice character has been going through …
No one can ever accuse Mark Millar of not having hellishly good success in the media markets, especially as concerns synergizing his comics properties with Hollywood. His latest is apparently meant to be a series, set in Detroit, about folks with super speed. The cover appears to feature one of the young speedsters in action: …
The other half is a fan of tattoos, and of reality competition shows, so Ink Master is on the watch list will me or nill me. This week, at least, my squirming at the thought of needles in flesh was at least going to be countered by something I’m into: comic books. Specifically, this week …
As usual, once my brain latches onto something, it tends to go into mental pitbull mode. Peter Pan is no better at escaping those steely obsessive jaws, it seems. How obsessive? How about turning a gag line into a mission statement? There’s a bit right after Peter meets Wendy, when he says “You mustn’t touch …
My fiancée is in the preparatory research stage of costume designing a local production of Peter Pan, which means there’s a lot of Pan talk around the homestead. And, honestly, there’s a lot to talk about. We’ve nattered about discussing the “Indians” quite a bit, as that section of the show is especially … delicate. …
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And there once again came a time when attempts to bend over backwards for new ways to say “gays are icky” and mask it as intellectual debate turned into this, from an interview with Cardinal Francis George: We didn’t invent marriage. The church didn’t invent marriage. The state didn’t invent marriage. Nature gives us marriage. …
It doesn’t come as a surprise that people still say hateful things, or have inexplicably strong reactions to what people who aren’t them might do in their own bedrooms, so at first I just rolled my eyes when San Antonio councilwoman Elisa Chan and members of her staff showed up in a recording doing just …
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