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The Hamilton comment on B2 just validates my thoughts that you're all a bunch of uncouth heathens. Here.. -- (link) - Mop Feb 3, 09:05 [youtube] 2
- nothing screams COOL like a broadway musical. -- nm - groiny Feb 3, 09:09 1
  - ik, r? -- nm - West Side Story Feb 3, 09:58
This is very well done. -- (link) - Spawn Feb 3, 08:58
Diva's Post Below Made me think: Best Musicals I've seen live (obv. I haven't seen a lot though) - MDH Feb 3, 08:57 13
- There is a special place in my list for Next to Normal and In The Heights then - oblique Feb 3, 09:03 7
  - I heart 'Next to Normal'. It's so good. - Diva Feb 3, 09:04 6
    - I *really* want to go to some musical theater with you guys sometime - oblique Feb 3, 09:05 1
      - that would be so fun. -- nm - Diva Feb 3, 09:06
    - That got it's start right here in DC/VA. I missed it then, and haven't had a chance to catch it yet. -- nm - MDH Feb 3, 09:05 3
      - I did the same thing with the 'Porgy & Bess' and 'Pippin' revivals here. Shoulda gone. -- nm - Diva Feb 3, 09:06 1
        
        Yeah, DC and Boston have been bringing it. Here's my quick memory of recent Broadway debuting in each city - MDH Feb 3, 09:09
      - I should include Wicked on my list as well. Saw that twice. -- nm - oblique Feb 3, 09:06
- My sentimental favorite is still: In The Heights. I really don't want to see it with another cast other than the local production. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 3, 09:00 4
  - This is on my must see list. I love the OST. -- nm - MDH Feb 3, 09:01 3
    - And I feel that way about Hamilton. I cannot imagine seeing it with any other cast but the original now. -- nm - MDH Feb 3, 09:01 2
      - :( - oblique Feb 3, 09:05 1
        
        I can't imagine it wouldn't be. Big huge successful shows like these have Bibles to ensure the quality is maintained. -- (edited) - Diva Feb 3, 09:11
I really like this house. -- (link) - kelly Feb 3, 08:53 15
- Somewhat aside, a question for everyone: Does the politics and social atmosphere of the region play a factor when moving? - Mop Feb 3, 09:09 2
  - I'm not thrilled to be (possibly) moving to a red state, but that would be a silly reason not to move. -- nm - kelly Feb 3, 09:11
  - not for me. - groiny Feb 3, 09:10
- If you all decide to move, we can put you in contact with our real estate agent. - David Feb 3, 08:57 8
  - Thank you. -- nm - kelly Feb 3, 08:58 7
    - Also, Hardin Valley is a new area, so the schools are new and *great*. - David Feb 3, 09:02 6
      - Being a new area, is it safe to assume it's built up? Shopping, restaurants, entertainment etc? -- nm - kelly Feb 3, 09:05 1
        
        Yes, I've mentioned here on several occasions that there's a part of Knoxville we call Little Manhattan. - David Feb 3, 09:09
      - What about Maryville? I found something online last night that said they have great school systems too. - kelly Feb 3, 09:04 3
        
        It's probably too far, but you're right about the schools. - David Feb 3, 09:07 2
        
        *stays away from highway* -- nm - Tim Feb 3, 09:08 1
        
        You wouldn't last a day! They'd treat you like roadkill! -- nm - David Feb 3, 09:11
- nice deck and pool -- nm - groiny Feb 3, 08:54 1
  - oh yeah -- nm - kelly Feb 3, 08:58
- nice (but electric range?) -- nm - decline Feb 3, 08:54
yummy -- (link) - decline Feb 3, 08:47 1
- nice -- nm - Diva Feb 3, 09:58
"It’s a Coen brothers movie, and one of their very best." -- (link) - mr plow Feb 3, 08:46 7
- This is contrary to what budice witnessed yesterday. Clearly the audience is too dumb to appreciate a good film. -- nm - Mop Feb 3, 08:47 6
  - critics vs 20-somethings. i'm not surprised this isn't appealing for an under-30 crowd. -- nm - Andie Feb 3, 08:48 5
    - Plus, mood. You have to be in the right one for their movies. -- nm - Spawn Feb 3, 08:53 2
      - Like sex! -- nm - Mop Feb 3, 09:05
      - I'm always in the mood for the next Coen bros movie -- nm - con_carne Feb 3, 08:57
    - even their most accessible films are an acquired taste for a lot of the moviegoing public -- nm - mr plow Feb 3, 08:50
    - Critics are Ralph Fiennes. 20-somethings are Alden Ehrenreich. Would that it were so simple. -- nm - Baron Whitlock Feb 3, 08:50
I mean, who *wouldn't* want to move to the place we have to thank for Megan Fox? -- nm - kelly Feb 3, 08:38 5
- I would rather live in Megan Fox. -- nm - groiny Feb 3, 08:41
- I bet they have a statue and a museum dedicated to her. -- nm - sycor Feb 3, 08:40 3
  - It's a statue of her leaning over a car. -- nm - Diva Feb 3, 08:41 2
    - there would be a thousand photos of me standing behind that statue. -- nm - groiny Feb 3, 08:44
    - snort -- nm - Epiphany Feb 3, 08:42
Ah. I see Peak Trump has surfaced. - ML Feb 3, 08:38 1
- is it different from the last six Peak Trumps? -- nm - mr plow Feb 3, 08:41
Donald Trump, now a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee -- nm - MDH Feb 3, 08:37
I need to figure out something to do with my old Thinkpad. - sycor Feb 3, 08:23 9
- I threw Linux Mint on our old Macbook, works awesomely. -- nm - spamlet Feb 3, 08:44 2
  - I don't know Linux at all. I guess I could use it as a learning opportunity. -- nm - sycor Feb 3, 08:45 1
    - Me neither which is why Mint is perfect. They've made it very easy. - spamlet Feb 3, 08:47
- It should think of something for you. -- nm - Spawn Feb 3, 08:36 1
  - Well, maybe the think for itself part of the thinkpad is broken because it isn't giving me any ideas. -- nm - sycor Feb 3, 08:38
- see my link on B2 about the mirror :) -- nm - oblique Feb 3, 08:25 3
  - Would a 10 year old laptop monitor work for that? I'd be willing try to but don't want to waste my time if it will look like crap. - sycor Feb 3, 08:27 2
    - the display being presented is pretty rudimentary (think: widgets). The monitor quality would likely not be any issue -- nm - oblique Feb 3, 08:30 1
      - Interesting. Maybe I'll add this to my list of projects. Of course I'd first have to teach myself some coding I guess. -- nm - sycor Feb 3, 08:37
Attention! Important Announcement - oblique Feb 3, 08:23
My list of Seminal Broadway Musicals in Chronological Order - (these are the ones that sort of changed everything for good and bad imo) - Diva Feb 3, 08:21 30
- The bf would argue that this list needs more Sondheim. ;-) -- nm* - MDH Feb 3, 08:43 3
  - I would/could possibly add 'Company' to the list. The form of it probably seemed schizophrenic at the time it opened. -- nm - Diva Feb 3, 08:45 1
    - And for this reason "A Chorus Line' might need to be on the list too. There was a lot of cool interesting and different stuff going on in the 70s. -- nm - Diva Feb 3, 08:56
  - Me too! :) -- nm - Znufrii Feb 3, 08:44
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  - i think Phantom did a lot to bring big theatre to the masses.*EVERYONE* saw Phantom. Cats and Les Miz did that too, but i think Phantom was basically - Andie Feb 3, 08:45 9
    - I didn't put 'Phantom' on because it seemed like 'Cats' and 'Les Miz' did that first. *shrug emoji* -- nm - Diva Feb 3, 08:53
    - I think this is exactly right. -- nm - amanda jonas Feb 3, 08:49
    - I never saw Phantom or Cats in a theatre. I saw them on TV. But I only saw part of Cats because I wasn't a big fan. -- nm - Diva Feb 3, 08:47
    - Confession: I've never seen any of these 3 live. -- nm - MDH Feb 3, 08:47 5
      - If you see Phantom, you should see it on Broadway. - kelly Feb 3, 09:00
      - me neither (but i'm not gay) -- nm - mr plow Feb 3, 08:51
      - I don't remember why but we went a lot when I was a kid. Phantom, Cats, Les Mis, Miss Saigon, etc. -- nm - oblique Feb 3, 08:50 1
        
        I've seen Les Mis like 3 times. (The last 2 because friends I had were playing Valjean and I wanted to support them.) -- nm - Diva Feb 3, 08:51
      - who *are* you? -- nm - Andie Feb 3, 08:47
  - please see -- (link) - Diva Feb 3, 08:44 [Backboard]
- I still can't believe we have a few more months before Hamilton wins all the Tonys. - Tim Feb 3, 08:39 5
  - One interesting thing. Excluding Hamilton, LMM is only an Oscar away from the EGOT. And he's doing the song from "Moana" -- nm - MDH Feb 3, 08:42 3
    - What's his Emmy? -- nm - Tim Feb 3, 08:58 2
      - In 2014, Miranda received an Emmy Award with Tom Kitt for their song, "Bigger" from the 67th Annual Tony Awards. -- nm - Diva Feb 3, 09:00 1
        
        awardception! - Tim Feb 3, 09:01
  - Both Lin-Manuel's big shows opened way early in the season. 'In The Heights' had been around for a long time too before other shows opened that year. -- nm - Diva Feb 3, 08:41
- Starlight Express is feeling slighted. Roller skates! -- nm - Baron Whitlock Feb 3, 08:38
- This is great, thanks! -- nm - prayformojo Feb 3, 08:36
- i would add West Side Story for the Bernstein-Robbins of it all. -- nm - mr plow Feb 3, 08:26 2
  - there are plenty of great musicals that aren't on the list. I tried to keep it to musicals that broke ground and did something entirely different from -- (edited) - Diva Feb 3, 08:28 1
    - i feel like it was the Hamilton of its day - mr plow Feb 3, 08:34
- That's a pretty sweet list. -- nm - Jim Feb 3, 08:24
- I would of course defer on expertise, but the mainstreaming effect of Phantom of the Opera feels missing. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Feb 3, 08:23 1
  - I see Phantom as a worthy successor to Cats and Les Miserables in that respect - only because it wasn't first to do it's own thing. -- nm - Diva Feb 3, 08:25
Thanks all for your insights re: the opportunity - Will Hunting Feb 3, 08:21 13
- Change is hard sometimes. Especially when it doesn't seem like you are thrilled about the change. - sycor Feb 3, 08:46
- I sent you a gmail as well. - spamlet Feb 3, 08:44
- Re: housing - David Feb 3, 08:28 2
  - Looking at places now, Kim's right on about Karns. Definitely not as dated as what we were finding in Oak Ridge last night. -- nm - kelly Feb 3, 08:37 1
    - Yes, we've looked at most of the neighborhoods in Karns and can offer a lot of advice if needed. - David Feb 3, 08:40
- it is a big step, but if there is a time to do it, that time is now. - groiny Feb 3, 08:22 7
  - This is why we've been thinking of moving -- nm - Beryllium Feb 3, 08:26 6
    - I had a rough time changing schools after 4th grade. - groiny Feb 3, 08:28 5
      - Yeah, after 5th grade was *awful* for me. - Spawn Feb 3, 08:29 4
        
        well, duh, who gets married in 5th grade. -- nm - groiny Feb 3, 08:29 3
        
        We were in love! -- nm - Spawn Feb 3, 08:30 2
        
        I wish I would have married my 4th grade love, she turned out way hot. -- nm - groiny Feb 3, 08:30 1
        
        My kindergarten love did, as well as my 1st grade. 2nd, not so much. 3rd/4th relatively so. -- nm - Spawn Feb 3, 08:33
ST Poll: ala mandy's link, what thing did you do as a kid that was "over the top" regarding toys, etc? - oblique Feb 3, 08:17 4
- You are the Kragle man. -- nm - Shaun Feb 3, 08:29
- Nothing even close to that. - Will Hunting Feb 3, 08:20 1
  - Yup (but with *?). And I would have the cars start upstairs, run through the course and then continue downstairs where they would go even further. -- (edited) - Spawn Feb 3, 08:26
- I had enough toy guns to stock a small army of 3rd graders. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 3, 08:19
Looks like iZombie may not be around much longer. -- nm - Spawn Feb 3, 08:17 3
- noooooooooooooooo!!!! -- nm - amanda jonas Feb 3, 08:17 2
  - wait, what? -- (link) - amanda jonas Feb 3, 08:18 1
    - This site tends to nail them. -- (link) - Spawn Feb 3, 08:23
so ... obviously, i've been gone for a while. did i miss anything and do i want to come back? -- nm - call me Ishmael Feb 3, 08:13 4
- *waves hello* -- nm - Epiphany Feb 3, 08:33
- 2016 can kiss my ass. -- nm - Spawn Feb 3, 08:14 1
  - Amen. -- nm - sycor Feb 3, 08:47
- we all won powerball, and we hired stand ins to post for us. -- nm - groiny Feb 3, 08:14
Krusty....nfluential New York DJ Big Kap has reportedly died. -- (link) - Remlik Feb 3, 08:12 1
- That sucks. I saw him many times at The Tunnel. -- nm - Krusty - Most Right Poster Feb 3, 09:17
this is so great: "When I was little, my brother and I loved card games like pokemon and yugi-oh, but we were too poor to buy them. So we made our own." -- (edited) - amanda jonas Feb 3, 08:10 4
- I had no idea, hon. -- nm - Spawn Feb 3, 08:16
- the mandy show just dropped a bombshell - mr plow Feb 3, 08:15 1
  - oops, editing now. -- nm - amanda jonas Feb 3, 08:17
- *Steals the idea, makes a million* -- nm - Cappie Feb 3, 08:12
Will, Kelly - My .02 for what it's worth, LIR. -- (link) - pmb Feb 3, 08:08 [Backboard]
"Rams have had internal discussions about bringing Peyton Manning to LA should he want to play another season" - ML Feb 3, 08:05 12
- And the, Manning goes into the Hall as a Ram. -- nm - Spawn Feb 3, 09:05
- It's either Peyton or Johnny Football. -- nm - Jim Feb 3, 08:06 10
  - They should fire whoever brings in JFF. Like immediately. - Will Hunting Feb 3, 08:10 9
    - does JFF mean 'Johnny Effin Football'? -- nm - Diva Feb 3, 08:35 1
      - Yep -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 3, 09:04
    - Johnny Football in LA would be a *glorious* trainwreck. - spamlet Feb 3, 08:17 3
      - It'd be Matt Leinart owning LA if Leinart was actually a 100% worthless drunk. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 3, 08:18 2
        
        yeah, he wasn't drunk at all -- nm - ML Feb 3, 08:30 1
        
        100% worthless drunk...he wasn't domestic abuse calls, DUI.... - Will Hunting Feb 3, 08:38
    - Look at Kroenke's teams - once he takes over, they all go in the tank. - Jim Feb 3, 08:14 2
      - The Avalanche are doing well now, so he at least has that. -- nm - spamlet Feb 3, 08:17
      - Seriously for making money, if he's smart he'll sell the team as soon as possible after the move. The value of the team tripled the minute he made - pmb Feb 3, 08:17
burr shot first -- nm - oblique Feb 3, 08:04
~...midnight - and the kitties are sleeping...~ -- nm - Diva Feb 3, 08:04 15
- chubbers and ollie sleeping by the fire last night. -- (link) - amanda jonas Feb 3, 08:11 14
  - they are so damn adorable -- nm - Epiphany Feb 3, 08:44
  - *swoon* -- nm - David Feb 3, 08:28
  - that ain't no cat - mr plow Feb 3, 08:26 2
    - More like a meatloaf. -- nm - Spawn Feb 3, 08:30 1
      - big ol slab o' cat -- nm - mr plow Feb 3, 08:35
  - that's pretty darn cute. -- nm - Diva Feb 3, 08:22
  - my asshole dog decided to start barking at 3:00 am last night, and did not stop til we got up this morning. - groiny Feb 3, 08:20
  - That's a great photo. They look so content. You have a nice fireplace! -- nm - mara Feb 3, 08:16 3
    - thanks. it's propane, obvs. it's super efficient for heat (keeping the most-used room warm) and super happyfying for kittens. -- nm - amanda jonas Feb 3, 08:21 2
      - Do they ever stomp their feet and demand that you light it? -- nm - Max Feb 3, 08:22 1
        
        ollie likes the fire more than chubbers, but when chubbers wants fire, she WANTS FIRE and will sit in front of the fireplace staring at me until I - amanda jonas Feb 3, 08:26
  - *steals the kittehs* -- nm - Baron Whitlock Feb 3, 08:14
  - ahhh -- nm - Andie Feb 3, 08:12 1
    - I haven't seen them that tired in months. their new box toy is an endless, tiring wonder. -- nm - amanda jonas Feb 3, 08:14

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