TRUE SHOWBIZ TALES #23: A few years ago my band at the time was part of the entertainment for an interactive gala Musical Tribute to the 1970s, including a floor show themed "Righteous Seventies Prom." During the tribute to Queen, we played Some of Queen's famous eighties stuff by the event's demand, and I was singing…

The first mashup I ever heard was "Under Ice," which mashed up an edit of the rap of Ice Ice Baby against the entirety of Queen performing Under Pressure. It was accompanied by an early-2000s Anime Music Video of Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Freshman year of high school it was Christmas break and I had a terrible fever of something like 106 degrees. I was shivering in a blanket on my cough, loopy on pain meds, and my whole family was out at a Christmas party. I decided to listen to "Sergeant Pepper" for the first time. It was a trippy experience to say…

No, there are situations where casual, affable cruelty DID get them ahead. I'm pretty normal now, but I was a bit weird early on in high school. I saw one of the Popular Trios at the mall, approached them and said hi. One of them said, a propos of nothing, "You should kill yourself! Maybe then people will want to pay…

I played the keys book in the pit band for one in June, doubling on piano, accordion, glockenspiel, djembe and melodica.

The idea that a show flops based on its original Broadway production alone is based on an understanding of theatre economics from the 1970s, the last gasp of theatre being as big as television or movies. The biggest change since then is the rise of both the Big Four Licensing Houses and musical tours as a cottage…

And now you will join me in singing and dancing Der Fuhrer's favorite tune… der Guten-Tag Hop-Clop!

I wouldn't hate this, but after seeing the clip, I don't hate Warburton's Snicket. He's toned down the more boorish quality of his typical portrayal, and his body language and rhythms of speech actually reminded me more than a little of Jon Hamm.

See, I think Batmanuel, being an actual superhero who happens to be flamboyant, petty and immature to near-villainous levels in his personal life, makes a better character than Die Fleidermaus, whose power is apathy and good publicity.

The show has become increasingly blatant in its insinuation that Gloria is a South American cartel princess, and the dialogue and blocking surrounding the recent Mexico plotlines have basically suggested she's visiting some El Chapo analogue whose crime family hers is affiliated with.

I don't know- I think they've found her niche as the "Taming of the Shrew" girl who is good looking and gets it when she wants it, but has inherited all of Claire's toxicity and none of Phil's bonhomie. There's not a good-natured bone in Alex's body, and I think that's her thing.

I think I could have gone my whole life without hearing of HOT TO TROT if the theme song were not inexplicably included on Danny Elfman's greatest hits volume 1. I know it's an early career retrospective, but thirty years on, when one thinks of Danny Elfman, one does NOT think of HOT TO TROT.

Never? In HOLLYWOOD? You're dreaming!

Ya know it makes my Speedos
Crunch like Doritos…

My Grandpap had those narrow stairs up to a strange, claustrophobic top floor. The walls were wood paneled. In retrospect it looked like one of the houses in the original "Halloween," but I remember those stairs being used as the kids' table for Christmas dinner. Adults would sit at the kitchen table, in-laws and…

"This just in: rug lugging bugs mugged by slug thugs! Over to you, Tom Jumbo-Grumbo."

(Cut to Space Mary Louise Parker having sex with a Space Mexican.)

2 Long, 2 Far Away

Which is itself a retcon so that modern Cage could keep his colorful way of speaking from when he was an exaggerated Soul Brother Blaxploitation character in the original pre-Iron Fist run.

Sexy Mr. Falcon.