ham fisted theatrics

Outside is the kind of weather where you're being punished for something. In this case, we're being punished for the weather being amazing this past week.

Dominic/Sarah/myself went to see Matt/Steve/Daniel's show in Philadelphia. While I was there, I did not see ?uestlove (although I did see him one night in NY when I was walking home drunk: I told him "I love you" 'cause what else do you say. He gave me a very exhausted pound) but we did find out that the Philly transit system is from 1962 (the SEPTA ticket machines don't take the new five, tens, or twenties, and it doesn't look like anybody's making an effort to change that, so bring your antique cash). We drank in Steve's mom's house's furnished basement. He has Fawlty Towers on VHS and the fridge down there has pictures of high school Steve being a nerd: I'm pretty sure one is him and his friends playing a collectible card game, and one was them having a LAN party. And now he's a killer actor and has a ridiculously cute girlfriend. Miracles can happen. Nerds, we can all be redeemed.

If you are in Philly you should go see their play, it's mad good. I might lead a contingent to see it again next weekend since not a lot of people who wanted to go could. Only this time I call the big couch.


It is still weird to buy booze or go to bars I wouldn't have been able to under normal, underage circumstances. I keep feeling like somebody is going to catch me.


NYU is having something called a Tunnel Of Oppression. I thought this was quinessentially uniquely NYU, but Google tells me a bunch of other schools have done it. This is good. I think liberal arts students need more opportunities to say to themselves, "Damn am I socially conscious. I am going to hit on the next person I see with a pin about veganism and we'll go have very earnest sex." Since there's clearly a market for travelling exhibits about vague societal ills, I'm spec-ing out a couple rip-offs, including:

The Vortex of Institutionalized Hypocrisy

The Alley Where It's Dark Enough To Have Anonymous Sex With Somebody With A Pin About Veganism

If you would like me to come to your school with one of my projects, comment below. I have the haircut and style of dress which indicates I have a lot of deeply held political beliefs, and I am ready to party.