The Social and Moral Imperatives of Public Transportation

[captqitn]

I dreamt that Tripp complained that he had been exercising so strenuously that he felt weak and really needed to take a break and drink some water.

When I arrived at his apt., I discovered that "exercising" actually meant that he was ass-drunk on all fours trying to capture 4 foot sandworms that had burrowed into his beige carpeting.



I agreed that he really needed some water, so we ordered a batch which arrived by truck in an 8 foot blue floating orb.



But Tripp refused to drink any because taped to the spigot was a pamphlet that he found to be preachy and a downer.    The cover read: "The Social and Moral Imperatives of Public Transportation."

[Tripp]

I had the same exact dream..!!

[captqitn]

(freeeeky!!!)

[captqitn]

You see that Netflix just snapped up every Star Trek ep ever?

And Twilight Zone, which I'm psyched about.    Only the first season or so was on cbs.com.

[Tripp]

Yep..

[Tripp]

new Spider-Man musical aims to be 'the good one'.

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Julie Taymor's idea for a musical based of the popular comic character Spider-Man was laughed at since day one. So after recasting, delays, and technical problems things still are not looking good for the fan hated and critically panned musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark that is still struggling to meet its March 15th opening.

Justin Morgan an improv comedian and composer has taken it upon himself to make his own Spider-Man musical that will also repsect the comics. Morgan will be opening his musical on March 14th, just a day before Turn Off The Dark opens (hopefully...Or not? Who Cares?). Here is what Morgan had to say about making his own wall crawling musical just before Taymor's:


    “Our goal isn’t to tear down Julie Taymor or parody her production,” Mr. Moran said in a telephone interview on Tuesday morning. “Our goal is to do what she should have done in the first place, and that’s just make a really good musical.”



Morgan also threw in his two cents on what he thinks went wrong with Turn Off The Dark:

    “I was like, of course it’s going to fail,” said Mr. Moran, whose lyrics for “Pope! The Musical” won an excellence award at the 2010 Fringe Festival. “They’re doing it all wrong. They’re spending all this money on all the wrong things.”



The currently titled Spidey Project (working title) will hit Broadway March 14th.

[Bizarro]

That won't get crushed by lawyers AT ALL.

[Tripp]

If it's under the guise of satire wouldn't it be safe.?

[Bizarro]

I am no lawyer, obv, but my understanding is that parody is fair use, as long as it doesn't directly challenge the source work commercially. That guy's press release says it's not a parody, he'll be trying to do the same thing, just better, and he'll be opening on the same street on nearly the same day.

I mean, it's obvious it's still going to be a parody. It'll be some jokey nerd thing like Evil Dead: The Musical. But in trying to be straight-faced about it, he's going to irritate the lawyers even more and his own press release undercuts his defense against them. It's hard to imagine the lawyers won't eat him alive.

[Bizarro]

Simon had his 2nd bday y'all!



We had a party at Pinstripes, the bowling/bocce/bistro place where Tilda works. Tilda has some better pictures. I'll try and hunt some down.

[Tripp]

Nice.

[Tripp]

I think the new Radiohead record reminds me of the Russian movie Solaris.

[captqitn]

Happy birthday, strapping dude!

I wish we had a bocce place around here.

[Tripp]

I might have to make an emergency trip to the junkyard.. great..

[captqitn]

Thats code, right?

ew.