Day: September 24, 2004

I have enough trouble with the idea of musicals based on films I love. I’m not sure how much the world of musical theater needs something like this.

Although, in all fairness, it is off-Broadway, so maybe it’s not really a sign of the coming apocalypse or anything. (Unlike, of course, this, which I’ve got to agree with Eric probably is.) And to be honest, I have kind of fond memories of The Last Starfighter film, too. (Although, in all fairness to me, I was about seven when I saw it in theaters.)

I’m just left to wonder, again, if we’ve run out of ideas for, y’know, original musicals.

Spam from my in-box:

It is a pleasure to invite you to see our updated web site with all information about our “dance competition season in Europe” in March (in Spain) and June (in Italy) of 2005.

I know it’s just a scam, but what I’m wondering is, with it in quotes like that, what exaclty is “dance competition season in Europe” a euphemism for?

Quick question: is there anyone out there reading this weblog through a news aggregator like Bloglines? I ask because that’s the one I use. I don’t subscribe to my own weblog, obviously, but out of curiosity I did decide to check on the feed this afternoon. According to Bloglines, it hasn’t been updated since late July. That’s obviously not the case, as the feed itself clearly shows. I’ve been posting a fair bit recently. (I’ll let you decide on the quality of what I’ve posted.)

Maybe it’s a problem with Bloglines specifically, I don’t know. I just figured I’d ask. So, are you successfully viewing this in a newsreader, or did you once do that but stop because the feed never seemed to update?

Of course, there’s the very real possibility that someone was reading this until the feed stopped working in July and won’t even see this. But then the point’s moot anyway.

The feed for my book log seems fine through Bloglines — and, surprisingly, even shows a subscriber. Go figure.