We went to see a play today
Jan. 11th, 2017 01:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyWith the homeschool group, so tickets were $2.50 each. Sweet! Except that I could only get student tickets, not an adult ticket. And then, at the end of the play, after I hung around Times Square an hour, the ushers said "Oh, we would've let you in, even without a ticket!"
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Oh, well.
Things seen while the kids were watching the play:
1. An enormous billboard in Times Square reminding us all that #communismkills. I'm a little concerned about the fact that somebody not only thought it was a good idea to pay for a huge billboard in Times Square on the subject, in 2017, but that they were able to drum up the money for this. There's something bizarre about rehashing the cold war.
2. A sign on the theater's bathroom door, stating that "anyone of any gender identity/expression can use whichever restroom with which they are most comfortable." +100 points for transfriendly, -27 points for sentence structure.
3. Some guy singing This Little Light of Mine in a minor key. It sounds surprisingly good that way.
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...
Oh, well.
Things seen while the kids were watching the play:
1. An enormous billboard in Times Square reminding us all that #communismkills. I'm a little concerned about the fact that somebody not only thought it was a good idea to pay for a huge billboard in Times Square on the subject, in 2017, but that they were able to drum up the money for this. There's something bizarre about rehashing the cold war.
2. A sign on the theater's bathroom door, stating that "anyone of any gender identity/expression can use whichever restroom with which they are most comfortable." +100 points for transfriendly, -27 points for sentence structure.
3. Some guy singing This Little Light of Mine in a minor key. It sounds surprisingly good that way.
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Unique microbial photosynthesis discovered
The legacy of Islamic philosophy
How Cab Drivers Changed the London Landscape
The science of baby's first sight
Why did Anthony Gatto, the greatest juggler alive — and perhaps of all time — back away from his art to open a construction business?
Worms have teenage ambivalence, too
For 15 Years, New Orleans Was Divided Into Three Separate Cities
As for-profit prisons go away, companies transfer money-making schemes to inmates transitioning to outside world.
Long-term stress erodes memory
On the Front Lines of a New Culture War
When Obama wouldn’t fight for science
Opposition in the Age of Gish Gallops
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Survey reveals disconnect between police and public attitudes
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When a creature mysteriously turns up dead in Alaska — be it a sea otter, polar bear, or humpback whale—veterinary pathologist Kathy Burek gets the call. Her necropsies reveal cause of death and causes for concern as climate change frees up new pathogens and other dangers in a vast, thawing north.
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