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Proposition 8: The Musical
The video below is Hollywood’s response to the passage of Proposition 8: a full-throated, star-studded musical. There is something quintessentially Hollywood in all this. The musical stars the likes of Jack Black, John C...

thirty days: day 25
Day 25 ? Your day, in great detailsigh. really?well...i passed out last night around 12:45, after lots of IRC goodness. i was hoping to get up at an early hour as a result of going to bed earlier than i had in months, but that failed miserably--i didn't wake up until 11:45 this morning...

Fastcase Announces Law Librarian Trivia Contest
Starting tomorrow, Fastcase will hold a trivia contest for law librarians attending the American Association of Law Libraries conference (AALL) in Washington, DC.About the Trivia Contest:The contest begins at 1:23 pm eastern on Wednesday, July 8 and will lead up to the AALL annual conference starting July 25...

Seeking Constitution Trivia Buffs
(Eugene Volokh) The Green Bag 2d is publishing a set of trivia-ish questions I put together related to the text of the Constitution; and it would be great if a few people who like such things could try to answer the questions, and let me know whether they think the instructions are flawed or imprecise in certain [...

If life were a musical ...
This video featured on Boing Boing reminded me of The Chaser's "If life were a musical" series: Here is how the pranksters at Improv Everywhere describe this video: For our latest mission, 16 agents staged a spontaneous musical in the food court of a Los Angeles shopping mall...

Firemark elected to Theatre Groups Board
I am very pleased to announce that I’ve been elected to the Board of Directors of the nonprofit Academy for New Musical Theatre. This fine organization’s Mission is to foster the highest quality of musical theatre writing, and to advance the state of new musical theatre production...