Comments for things kevin hates

Comment on people who are offended by “happy holidays” by Skye

Skye — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 03:24:04 +0000

Its funny that alot of companies say Happy Holidays, like they dont want to offend, yet they blatantly milk the christmas gift giving for all its worth. And dont say you dont see the word christmas all over their catalogues to try and sell their stock. It’s hypocritical and thats why I dislike the saying so much.

Comment on fitted sheets by joe

joe — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:13:12 +0000

I never had a problem with fitted sheets until I got a pillow top mattress. Can’t find a fitted sheet that will stay put.

Comment on people who are offended by “happy holidays” by Jenn

Jenn — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:46:41 +0000

Right On Beatrice and Marlane! Way is it a Battle against Christmas or even an empty PC stunt to be inclusive. As a person who celebrates Christmas because it is the holiday my extended family celebrates, I certainly am not offended by Merry Christmas, but it also doesn’t carry too much deep meaning for me personally. If I didn’t have family outside my husband and children Yule (Winter Solstice)would be the only winter celebration for us, and frankly when people are annoyed that a lighted tree isn’t expressly called a Christmas Tree- I should be offended. When folks say Happy Solstice or Merry Yule etc I glow…because it happens so rarely. I appreciate Happy Holidays because it says to me – “We are all different, we are all wonderful, I make no assumptions about you, and I wish you love, peace and good cheer.”

So I say- We are all different, we are all wonderful, I make no assumptions about you, and I wish you love, peace and good cheer…or Happy Holidays for short!

Comment on overproduced musicals by AJ

AJ — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 04:12:24 +0000

Wow. The claws are out.
I agree with you on overproduced musicals.
In my area, Joseph, The Pajama Game(!), and Putnam County Spelling Bee are the worst.
That being said, my home theater is putting on CATS. Why? I don’t have a fucking clue, lol.
I have talked to the Boards of Directors in my area, and it seems as if the Artistic Directors are afraid to take risks. They have to turn a profit, and they’re afraid to try something the masses might not be able to digest. A couple of the ballsier theaters have recently done Into the Woods and Ragtime.
I’d like to see more risks in choosing seasons. People shouldn’t HAVE to consider whether they want to see the same old crap every time they want to go to the theater.
I agree with basically everything you said here.Schools DO have a largely built-in audience. My wife is a teacher, and whenever they put on a show, the audiences are massive. The students spread the word, and people show for them. family, friends, the mailman, Grandma’s massage therapist…

Producer of Overproduced Musicals…You’re kind of a dick. I know for me, sometimes I get the performing bug, and I need to be in a show. An overproduced show that I’ve been in before is preferable to nothing…which explains why I’ve been in the Sound of Music twice, Hello Dolly! twice, and South Pacific FOUR TIMES.

Comment on things in musicals that make no sense by AJ

AJ — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 04:01:45 +0000

AGREED! WHOLEHEARTEDLY!

Comment on the lack of baritone roles these days by AJ

AJ — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 04:00:01 +0000

I disagree. There are some decent roles in non-golden age.

Jamie in The Last Five Years
Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum
Marius/Enjolras/Javert/Thenardier/Grantaire in Les Miserables
The Baker, Mysterious Man/Narrator and Cinderella’s Prince/Wolf in Into the Woods
Rochester in Jane Eyre
Billy Flynn in Chicago
Dr. Neville Craven in The Secret Garden
Chauvelin in Scarlet Pimpernel
Wheeler in Do Re Mi
Prince Dauntless in Once Upon A Mattress
Pontius Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar
Bobby in Company
Mufasa in The Lion King
Charlie Brown in You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Jekyll in Jekyll and Hyde
Coalhouse/Grandfather/Younger Brother In Ragtime
King Arthur in Spamalot
Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Anthony/Sweeney/Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd

Also, high as can be, my ass. Are you classically trained? Try being an operatic baritone. You would be expected to have a High B in reserve. Musical theater roles have become more diverse, especially for Tenors, who were normally stuck either in second banana roles or sidekick roles. Baritones had their day, and will have it again.

As a Tenor, who, incidentally, has been playing Baritone roles because of the LACK of substantial Tenor roles in the shows we’ve been doing in my area, I don’t want to hear it. The Baritone is alive and well. I AM annoyed with the lack of meaty Tenor roles, meaning for those of us that have less of a screechy whiny little bitch voice, and more of a mature, rich Tenor sound.

Also, Aidan, to say that Tenors are in the same range as girls is an ignorant statement. A Tenor is the highest male voice. The lowest female voice starts AN OCTAVE HIGHER THAN WE DO.

Cliff in Cabaret
Beast/Gaston/Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast
Robert Baker in Wonderful Town
Czolgoz in Assassins
Ruteledge/Ben Franklin in 1776
The Voice of Audrey II/The Dentist in Little Shop of Horrors
Juan Peron in Evita
Raoul in Phantom of the Opera
The Wizard in Wicked
Zoser in Aida

Notwithstanding, Golden Age musicals are hugely popular still. They always will be.

Comment on authors who don’t use quotation marks by Bill

Bill — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:48:25 +0000

Many non-American writers don’t use quotation marks because it’s not the standard of their country as it is here. James Joyce would be a good example. Dashes, and even brackets, are especially common in Spanish-speaking countries. American authors often omit quotation marks for atmospheric or mood purposes. I’d classify those as artistic purposes as many of the world’s most influential novels are reveries.

Finnegans Wake is a whole other story. The reason behind the lack of an apostrophe in the title is due to a pun on the popular folk song, “Finnegan’s Wake.” The title is also a direct call to the Finnegans of the world, telling them to awaken. Of course, that would requite a comma to be grammatically correct, but the point of Finnegans Wake is that it doesn’t follow conventional standards. In fact, that was largely the point of the whole Modernist movement in the first half of the 20th Century.

Comment on omitting the serial comma by Blake

Blake — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 06:02:07 +0000

I know this is an old post, but the content bothered me. So please bear with me…

Your defense of serial commas in the face of ambiguity is simple: just use your brain; reorder the list until it makes sense. However, this very same option is not available to omitting the serial comma? That does not make very much sense.

Additionally, your phonetic argument is rather weak. In most normal speech, there is no pause between the second-to-last and last elements in a list. The coordinating conjunction generally serves as the “pause” between the last elements. The pause here is definitely diminished.

My point is that it is a style choice. There is very little logic one way or the other on the topic.

Comment on speed bumps by Ron

Ron — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 02:29:36 +0000

They leave the traffic lights burned out for months on end, yet, use their asphalt budget for more and more speed bumps instead of repairing the crumbling roads. Don’t come here if you like to take a pleasant Sunday drive in a good car on a nice stretch of highway. The stop/go, stop/go driving is infuriating, hurts gas mileage, and causes air pollution as the drivers gun their cars to make up for lost time.

Comment on the misuse of the word “humbled” by Kim

Kim — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:27:40 +0000

Not to mention our dear president has used this, and the Queen of England.