#Rent Live

[sunsetfreedom05]

Today marks 27 years since RENT opened on Broadway.

[curryalley]

Hyperfixation is so fucking weird.

Like, I am super into Tick Tick Boom right now. I've watched it three times in the past two weeks.

And that led to looking up the lyrics for Therapy, despite having the song memorized, simply because I wanted to see the words written down.

Which led to reading about The Jonathan Larson Project and watching video of performance of White Male World.

Which led to discovery that Fox aired a Rent Live performance back in 2019, an event I had no idea even existed because I had no television at that time.

Naturally I then needed to watch Rent Live but it's not on streaming so I wound up on a rip someone posted to YouTube.

Which meant having to have opinions about Rent Live FULLY FOUR YEARS AFTER IT AIRED. Like what do you mean Fox had no understudies to take over when Roger broke his foot? Wouldn't they have learned the importance of a backup when Vanessa Hudgens was forced to do Grease the day after her father died? And if they had no understudies, is airing a poorly sound-mixed dress rehearsal where most of the cast is clearly saving their voices for the real performance, the best solution? Joanne was OFF KEY in Take Me Or Leave Me and that song is a BARN BURNER, performing off pitch is a WAR CRIME. Why not just LET ROGER BE IN A WHEELCHAIR, YOU COWARDS.

Then I lost like two hours of my night reading critic's reviews of the broadcast.

Brains are NEAT.

[teaboot]

Sometimes I think a lot about my mom's cat

My mom's cat is a common domestic shorthair we found on the side of the road as a kitten

Regular cat, not a maine coon or one of those massive breeds. His mom was smaller than a loaf of bread

But in a sort of a Clifford The Big Red Dog situation, he grew super fast, and really really big, and took a super long time to stop growing

Worried that she was overfeeding him, she eased back his portions, but he stayed a massive round baby

When he started having kidney problems, she took him to the vet.

The vet took a look at him and said, "holy fuck, what are you feeding him", checked the nutritional listings on his chow, and told her "Yeah, maybe he's reacting badly to the amount of grain in this, try a meatier diet"

So my mom wound up special-ordering this specific high-protein prescription cat food made of like. Kangaroo meat or some shit that cost like sixty bucks a bag

And, as typical act two in an episode of House, he somehow got worse on the fancy specialized stuff that was supposed to be Primo Athlete Olympic Feline Blend

Like. WAY worse. His guts were inflamed and his kidneys were shutting down and he was all sore and HE WAS STILL HUGE, just miserable and sad

So shetook him back to the vet, where they had to help him pee (he was apparently close to bursting and had some kind of blockage too) and went "Yeah no this is NOT normal and we don't know what's going on, we're gonna do some tests but in the meantime you should go back to what he was eating before, at least that wasn't actively killing him" so she did

And he still wasn't great, but he also improved

And so they take his blood and do an ultrasound and a couple g's later she gets a call back like "this is gonna sound crazy, but we want you to put him on a low-meat diet. Just the least amount of protein and iron and shit. We need you to find the grainiest, filler-iest dollar tree kibble available and give him some of that bad bad shit"

And my mother is a woman of science. So she did

And he GOT BETTER

His energy picked back up, inflammation went down, he started drinking normally again, got back to pissing like a fuckin champion

And so it turns out that out of all the random ass freeway bonus cats we possibly could have scooped out of a ditch, WE got the one-in-a-million freak of nature with a SPECIFIC genetic defect that means a paleo protein free range diet is essentially poison and he THRIVES on cheap ass garbage

Like. He medically NEEDS junk food

I dont really understand how that works, but i cant argue with results.

If we had four of him, they'd outweigh my mom. And he's FINE

Also blind, but that's unrelated

Im not using him as a symbol or a metaphor or anything. I just keep catching myself thinking about my mom's Big Fucking Cat

[heritageposts]

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

I once had a landlord offhandedly mention that his mother had set this house on fire before. He and his wife lived on the first floor, and i rented the third.

Apparently his mom didn’t like his wife. So she set their house on fire. The house i was living in.

He assured me that everything was fine now and that this was years ago, just kinda laughed, smiled, and said ‘You know how moms are’

Yes. I know how moms are. I know how fucked up moms are as well. I have known many fucked up moms and fellow children of fucked up moms.

Attempted murder through arson is not typical mom behavior, even for a fucked up abusive mom

Oh, and his mother lived next door 🙃

[patheticblorbloscholar]

Guilty pleasure musical edition. I love this cast and production.

[megameryl]

Theater Talk 9/25/24

Maybe I'm just not imaginative enough, but I've seen poor Adam Pascal sing Roger songs so many times, that the discovery of his performance as Harold Hill was- for a lack of a better word- jarring!

[lambment]

Dont know if you were joking about needing catboy references a couple of weeks back but here ya go

Theres one for sheep too if you need that

the sacred texts.... thank you for bestowing it upon me

[diabloku]

The #cursedcatalastor is all over Twitter so Alastor is making good use of his new army 😌

[krembruleed]

beach episode?

[andstuffsketches]

girl who lives in a cave

[thatsparrow]

it's december happy "I Heard a Bird Sing" by oliver herford season

[stil-lindigo]

Bisan is calling for another global strike!

I saw some posts just outlining Jan 21st, and wanted to clarify that Bisan has called for a full seven days of action.

What a global strike would look like is:

calling in sick to work

purchasing bare essentials ahead of the week so you can observe the general boycott of goods / buying as little as you genuinely can

putting in a concerted effort to elevate Palestinian voices and make it clear that this strike is in support of a permanent ceasefire!

For those who will have to purchase necessary goods during this time, please observe the brands that the BDS movement is asking us to boycott!

♢♢♢

Right now is also a good time to mention some better uses for your money during this week.

Available e-sims in Gaza are running low!!

Mirna El Helbawi and her team are working round the clock to continue to connect Palestinians as Israel does its best to cut them off from the rest of the world.

You can learn how to purchase and send e-sims here, and below you’ll find a list of what is currently needed (the areas in brackets indicate what region you should select to buy e-sims in).

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CareforGaza is an organisation that does verifiably good work, distributing supplies directly to Palestinian families.

They have a Gofundme set up at the moment, but because of Gofundme’s poor track record regarding refusing to transfer funds to Palestinians, I’d recommend continuing to donate directly to their PayPal here.

Good luck to all of you. Don't turn away from Palestine!

[fruity-blogs]

Sometimes...

Taking a leap forward means...

Leaving a few things behind.

[wanologic]

and they were roommates

[isjasz]

do you remember