Category Archives: Culture

Dan Savage on Stephen Colbert

By Gib | November 12, 2008

This is simply too cute not to repost.
[Hat tip: Box Turtle Bulletin ]

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Brokeback Opera Break Down — I Can’t Quit You, Oh, Wait, I Just Did

By Gib | November 11, 2008

The New York City Opera has cancelled plans for Brokeback Mountain: The Opera:
Back in June, it was announced that Charles Wuorinen was commissioned to write an opera adaptation of the popular film Brokeback Mountain.
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Then in September, following a meeting of New York City Opera’s Board of Directors Mortier, announced that City Opera would be commissioning [...]

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Notable Quotable: David Alan Greer

By Gib | November 8, 2008

David Alan Greer in Chocolate News:  Landslide Edition had this to say:
from no pardon to the Rosegarden,
from segregation to inauguration,
from no bling to the West Wing
from picking cotton in the sun, to riding on Air Force One,
if it’s chocolate, we gonna bring it to you.

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Mormons and Mordor

By Gib | November 7, 2008

While looking for a photo for another post, I raw across this amazing photo.
Something about it screamed out at me — Mormons are in Mordor!
I don’t know, it’s probably some part of my unconscious that’s not very sweet or pleasant or kind or forgiving latching onto internal strife and encapsulating it as some archetypal [...]

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Quote of the Day: Paperwight

By Gib | November 7, 2008

I responded to Paperwight’s comment over on a American Constitution Society Blog, visited Paperwight’s sight and read a post with this fantastic quotation.
If you want to be someone better, you have to do something better.
The rest of the blog is pretty awesome, too and focuses on John McCain and how the media has treated him [...]

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The Tammy Grimes Show (1 of 3)

By Gib | November 3, 2008

I saw Tammy Grimes recently for the first time in “Can’t Stop the Music” on my DVR.
I’m moderately obsessed with her arch, upper class speaking voice.
Somehow, in uncertain economic times, it’s soothing to listen to people who’s major care seems to be getting an allowance and picking shoes.
YouTube - The Tammy Grimes Show (1 of [...]

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Unlikely Diva Moment: Jennifer Holliday - This is the Moment

By Gib | October 30, 2008

After comparing Whitney Houston’s rendition of a Holliday song yesterday, I thought it would be fair game to look at and list to Ms. Holliday singing a song not her own.
This is, of course, a song from Jekyll & Hyde, the much maligned Broadway show from the much maligned composers Frank Wildhorn and one of [...]

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Harry Potter and the Naked Nymph (Julia Louise Dreyfus)

By Gib | October 30, 2008

In 1986 there was a terrible movie named Troll.
I never saw it when it came out.
I can’t quite say I’ve seen it.  All right, I actually have seen it.  All of it.  But chunks of it were on DVR speed-through speed.
FromPopsucker:
the thing that shocks me isn’t that Lindsay Lohan’s sister auditioned for a remake of [...]

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Diva Moment: Whitney Houston Diva Medley

By Gib | October 30, 2008

Three songs, one huge Diva turn:

Porgy I’s Your Woman (Porgy and Bess)
And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going (Dreamgirls)
I Have Nothing (The Bodyguard)

If the date is to be believed, then 2/3 of the songs were in movies, but now all of them are.
Whitney, as the woman who completely redefined Dolly Parton’s signature song and country [...]

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Michiganders, To Regster to Vote, Dial 555 - Oh, Oh, Oh!

By Gib | October 30, 2008

Too funny.  And 100% true.
The Associated Press: Mich. Dems’ typo directs voters to phone-sex line

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