News and notes from the departments of Health, Theater Arts, and Stupid

[captainsblog]

I rather overslept yesterday and really wanted to make church on time (for once), so I flew out the door without my obligatory morning cup of coffee. Since I didn't feel all that draggy after that, I wondered, maybe I could cut the caffeine out.

Wonder no more. I've got a morning-after headache the size of Topeka. (And no, it's not a hangover, as I somehow managed to be completely sober all of yesterday.)

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Remember how all excited I was about last year's local Broadway touring company schedule being announced? You know, the one highlighted by Avenue Q finally coming here in April? The one I never saw because April sucked like a [insert appropriate nipple joke here]?

Two things about that.

(1) Turns out, its 2007-08 tour ends with a monthlong engagement, beginning this very week, in....

TORONTO:)

Since things have been sucking far less on the financial end of late, I think we're up to it.

(2) Just to tempt me further, I saw the first billboard today for next season's Shea's Broadway series, and it begins with,.... wait for it,....

LEGALLY BLONDE!

Maybe someone could clue me on whether the bus-and-truck cast is up to the task, or if we'd be better off waiting for a trip to Noo Yawk someday.

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And we end with the July 28 Stupid Observation Du Jour:

There's been a controversy in this fair city over the administration providing take-home cars to municipal employees, many of them cops who live far outside the city limits. In days of $4.00-plus gas, it seemed an extravagance to let these (mostly) guys drive (mostly) ridiculously huge SUVs and charge the city for both the vehicles themselves and their petrol at the motor-pool gas pumps.  Our beloved Mayor, Byron "Don't Call Me Urkel" Brown, responded by taking away all of the cars except those of a very select few (including, naturally, his own); the union kicked back instantly with a court order demanding that the city "bargain" over this "benefit" which has "never" been in any of its "contracts."

So it's in this confrontational context that, as I left downtown this morning, I had to wait for a behemoth of a black Chevy Tahoe to evacuate the parking space in front of me. I could tell from a couple of things (a license plate starting with an E, which I know to be among the most recently released tags at this point, plus a handwritten registration sticker on the dashboard) that someone had just purchased this monstrosity.  Who in their right mind would voluntarily buy such a carbon-sucker in these economic times?

A Buffalo cop, that's who. And I'm probably paying for his damn gas with the parking ticket I'm gonna get when somebody figures out who wrote this.

Comments

[angledge.livejournal.com]

Obviously you should come to New York :-)

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

A Buffalo cop, that's who.

Anyone I know?

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

I just caught the patch on his uniform as he was driving off. I did take down the license number but, you know, it's BRAND F-ING NEW so you wouldn't recognize it.