Author: F C

Man o’ Spamalot

P got tickets yesterday for Monty Python’s Spamalot. I haven’t been to the theater for a long while, and I love musicals, so it was an especial treat. Also, it’s generally based, but something completely different from the movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It was a bit more like Monty Python Forbidden Broadway, as the subtext was to parody other Broadway shows, such as the Producers, Phantom, and anything with disco. They also had a Broadway version of the Excalibur Las Vegas. There is also audience participation for someone in the lucky seat, which this time was A101, and a sing-a-long of “Look on the Bright Side of Life”, so there’s no time to be bored. Lots of fun — recommended. And yes, I bought an official pair of coconut shell halves, perfect for all sorts of horse play!

Before, we had dinner across the street at Ollies. They have credible renditions of Cantonese won ton mein soup noodles with BBQ made in house. Other than having a bit more MSG than I would like, the noodles were appropriately al dente and the wontons were fullsized and had both pork and shrimp. The siao long bao was also not bad. The food came out really fast, and we were done in 45 minutes. We didn’t even break $20 between the two of us, which is a real deal in Times Square.

Katrina Counterpoint

Sundance Channel ran Mardi Gras Made in China as a counterpoint to our Katrina rememberances. The documentary maker interviews Mardi Gras partiers and the Chinese people who make their beads – both being completely ignorant of each other. The beads might as well have been dropped from Mars; when the workers were shown what was done with the beads, they thought they came from Mars. Who is being indicted here?

Reality Affirmative Action, Training from A to 6

SSW mentioned this fall’s 4-way apartheid Survivor: Cook Islands today. City officials are appropriately outraged, but the question ithat occurs to me is whether there were this many Asians applying for the previous 12 seasons? Amazing Race has 2 Asian teams this year, apparently also to address the reality of the situation. The only Asian American to win a reality show was Dorothy Hui in Anderson Cooper’s The Mole 2 – the Next Betrayal.

The subway nerds ride the entire system in 24 hours 2 minutes. One of them is a U.Mich law student. More people would consider doing it if there were more restrooms than the measly 70 rooms out of 469 stations currently available. Maybe the people fighting over the above-ground street furniture could also do the subways and save everyone a lot of aggrevation.