Sep 20 2007

Pony Party…Wicked Edition

What would life be, without pony parties?  What would a pony party be, without music?  Indeed, life itself would quickly become a dull gray platter on which we are the overcooked vegetables, the intermittent rattle in life’s dashboard, the irregular hum of the midnight refrigerator to the dreaming joy of our existence.  And what better music for an existential soundtrack, of course, than show tunes?

This is surely the best of all possible worlds, and this is the best of all possible threads.

One must get through a half minute of NBC announcer for this one…”Popular” with the original cast, the incomparable Idina Menzel and Kristen Chenoweth.  In the rain, on the street, and utterly captivating.

Jessical is your morning Candida today, but I’m at the best of all possible dentists and away from the computer for the duration.  I promise ponies (the very best ponies) when I get back this evening.  In the interim…be excellent to one another.

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  1. in addition to having read (and greatly enjoyed) the gregory macguire novel, my better half and i were lucky enough to get to see the stage production when it made its run through san francisco. i’m not normally a huge musical theater fan (the authorities have threatened to revoke my homo membership card…), but the show was spectacular. and this particular song is a delight.

    • pfiore8 on September 20, 2007 at 18:09
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    and all in pink, too

  3. Cholera is now in Baghdad.  The New York Times is doing a decent job of covering this.  Just wait until the kiddos start coming home in body bags from cholera.

    Iraq’s deputy health minister, Dr. Adel Mohsin, said last week that further spread of the epidemic was very likely unless government agencies followed strict guidelines on water testing and maintaining sufficient levels of chlorination to kill the bacteria.

    But Dr. Mohsin said that chlorine imports had been severely curtailed as a result of recent insurgent bombs that had used chlorine.

    The Red Crescent has said that shallow wells contaminated by sewage around Sulaimaniya – which had at least two cholera outbreaks in the decades before the American-led invasion in 2003 – could have set off the epidemic. But problems that have developed since the invasion, like poor control of chlorination levels, have the potential to make this outbreak more dangerous, the Red Crescent said.

    Officials focusing on Baghdad are trying to figure out how to ward off an epidemic when it is too dangerous for health workers to easily move about the city.

    World Health Organization officials advising the Iraqi government said Baghdad might need to set up response teams in each separate district, rather than trying to work with a centralized response unit.

    Cholera can be mild or even have no symptoms, but about one in 20 infected people become extremely ill, with profuse watery diarrhea, vomiting and leg cramps. Without treatment, rapid loss of body fluids causes dehydration and shock, and a person can die within hours.

    • KrisC on September 20, 2007 at 23:21
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    “Passamaquaddy”, it’s on of the kids favorite, I like it cuz, well the medicine man thingy!

    It’s not broadway, but it’s a musical. 

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