quickie

who? where?

"married a lesbian, left a man in the altar, fell in love w a gay ice dance, threw a girl's wooden leg in the fire, live in a box!"

go...

i know the winning word!

i was watching the spelling bee championship and realized how really that my vocabulary is still not big enough. here are some of the words from the last few rounds of the bout...

simnel - a crisp bread made of fine wheat flour

passacaglia - a slow, dignified dance of Spanish origin

apodyterium - the apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, where one stripped; a dressing room

axolotl - an amphibian of the salamander tribe found in the elevated lakes of Mexico

goombay - the style of calypso music or rhythm popular in the Bahamas

iliopsoas - the great flexor muscle of the hip joint, divisible into two parts, the iliac and great psoas

xebec - a small, three-masted vessel of the Mediterranean, formerly much used by corsairs, now employed to some extent in commerce

grisaille - monochromatic painting in shades of gray

huisache - a tropical and subtropical New World shrub, Acacia farnesiana, of the legume family, having clusters of fragrant, deep-yellow flower heads

neufchatel - a soft, white cheese similar to cream cheese, made from whole or partly skimmed milk in Neufchâtel, a town in N France

cretonne - a heavy cotton material in colorfully printed designs, used esp. for drapery and slipcovers

caerphilly - a mild, white, crumbly, medium-hard cheese, originally made in Wales

jacqueminot - a half-hardy, deep crimson rose of the remontant class; -- so named after General Jacqueminot, of France

reredos - a screen or a decorated part of the wall behind an altar in a church

isagoge - an introduction, esp. a scholarly introduction to a field of study or research

sophrosyne - moderation; discretion; prudence

menhir - an upright monumental stone standing either alone or with others, as in an alignment, found chiefly in Cornwall and Brittany

and the winning word...

laodicean - lukewarm or indifferent, esp. in religion, as were the early Christians of Laodicea.

if you know your bible, you know that word.

word.

stop not in the name of love

Stop motion (or frame-by-frame) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small amounts between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames are played as a continuous sequence. Clay figures are often used in stop motion for their ease of repositioning. Stop motion animation that uses clay is knows as claymation. wikipedia.com

enjoy...

so....

and the tony went to...

sunday night's Tony Awards has "awesome" written all over it. from the opening to the very last minute of it is pure joy. Neil Patrick Harris hosted and man, he looks deliciously fine.....ggrrrrrr.

i posted a list of who i wanted to win. unfortunately, out of my "wants" list, only 2 took home the tony. Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey won Best Original Score for Next To Normal and the very talented Karen Olivo won Best Featured Actress in a Musical for reprising the role of Anita in the revival of The West Side Story.

here is Karen's acceptance speech....

so genuine, eh? she brought Josefina Scaglione to tears. you can really tell that she's not expecting it all. see the funny peace sign she gave the camera? her win/speech reminded me of Laura Benanti's win for Gypsy from last year. well actually, their Tony wins has a lot in common. both from a revival of a musical...both musicals by Stephen Sondhem (Gypsy and West Side Story)...their 1st Tony award...both were directed by Arthur Laurents...both gave Arthur a major shout in their speeches...and they're both kinda shaking on stage. pardon me, i really tend to do this 6 degrees of separation stuff.

if you are following me on twitter or a theatre/tony dork, i bet you can answer this question: what does Krysta Rodriguez, Karen Olivo, & Daniel breaker have in common?

congratulations to the winners! "dreams come true, bitches!" -Karen Olivo

my favorite parts of the show:

• the opening performance. it can't get any better than that. they totally beat Hugh Jackman's opening back in 2004. come on, Elton John jumping whilst singing "let the sunshine, let the sunshine in"? that is epicness!
• Brett Michaels getting "dropped". epic fail at the Tonys. totally his fault. his bandmates know how to pay attention at rehearsals.
• the droolage that were caused Neil Patrick Harris, Gavin Creel, Aaron Tveit, Matt Cavenaugh, and Curtis Holbrook.
• Laura Benanti's shout to the Patti Lupone incident where she had someone removed from the audience for taking photos.
• NPH's shout to Jeremy Piven's mercury poisoning incident.
• Lin-Manuel Miranda's "wepa!" while walking on stage.
• Karen Olivo's speech.
• West Side Story's performance (dance at the gym).
• smell-o-vision.
• Hair nabbing the Best Revival of a Musical award. the tribe nearly drowned Kristin Chenoweth on stage.
• the Rock Of Ages' performance. let your lighter shine!
• the Hair performance. they owned RCMH.
• NPH's closing number.

yes! take Neil's advice, go see a broadway show!

44 llib

the very controversial bill 44 passes through alberta legislature.

the bill gives the right for parents to pull their children from classrooms in which teachers discuss sexual orientation, sexuality, or religion.

crappy bill.

i honestly feel bad for those kids who will get opted out and deprived from such knowledge. i think this bill will produce moronic close-minded individuals. i must have had a "sheltered" liberating educational experience, who knows. i've attended a christian school for most of my in-school learning years. i remember being encouraged to question and discuss things that others tend to ignore. i've had a handful of exceptionally opinionated teachers who taught about what to expect in the so-called "real world". it was a christian school where gay students, closeted or not, are treated with the same amount of respect. at least it was like that when i was there.

i see no need for my parents to pull me out of class that teaches about the existence of the third sex and religion and other what have yous. they supply me with their own views and opinions about things. the most fun part is they know that i have a well functioning brain that judges well and a useful heart that knows how love. they know that they can only teach me as much....it is always up to me and my own judgment if i'm gonna agree with them or not.

compromising your own opinion is far different from avoiding a fist fight, i tell ya.

as @eadnams said on twitter, "I think world religions/cultre shud b a clas in public sch.d majority of d world blieves in *something*"

with that, i am lead to believe that growing up in a 2nd world country is a major. plus why? because we give a crap about what the 1st world countries and the rest of the world are up to. we talk about them in....wait for it......yeah, you got that right,....school. we talk about them in school. i am thankful.

alberta is moving backwards with this bill.

hence, the "44 llib" title of this post