This book rocks and rolls

A fourth? Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional www.commonwealmagazine.org/charlotte-wo...

Three? Yuko Tsushima's Wildcat Dome www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

If I had to pick two? @pipadam.bsky.social's Audition www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

Here's the thing: the first part has all these big group numbers which, in his style, become basically incoherent, whereas part two is basically all solos and duets, which are more boring (lots of close-ups and dialogue two-shots) but at least they hold the eye.

I was thinking about that while watching. We demand so much verisimilitude now that pulling off something deliberately artificial is impossible or at least unpopular. But for some reason people will accept truly godawful CGI—the final shot of "No Good Deed" is Birdemic-esque

Actually preferred the look of this Wicked to the first (they figured out how to put the lights behind the camera) but did think a lot about this while watching. Why build those giant emerald city sets and then show us nothing? We're always cutting and swirling around, so we have no POV.

This was on the ps3! I only ever played a demo but it was super strange en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_B...

Remember that Clive Barker game which was like "what if rainbow six was invaded by ancient babylonian evil"

Upstate legends. One of their communities is preserved immediately next to the runways at the Albany airport

Well of course. But the early Americanist in me wants to point out that the Quakers literally fled New England to get away from the Puritan calvinists. And the Shakers made some pretty good chairs

The Shakers had too much fun to be calvinists

That drumming >>>>

It rules

They have a joke for any occasion