- Disney has launched a cruise ship that is filled with giant interactive video games. Kotaku
- Finally, an image based Tumblr for me. NSFW. Hell Yeah Horror Manga
- I'm in a bit of a zombie mood today. Care for some zombie taxidermy? Bit Rebels
- I don't normally like "x meets y" marketing. Rosemary's Baby meets The Thing would be a big exception to that rule. Shock Till You Drop
- Etsy has a really offensive post on their blog about a mental health awareness art installation. No, Chappell, having a mental illness like OCD or anxiety is not cute, artistic, or profound. It's just a medical condition that needs treatment. Feel free to share your outrage as the Etsy moderators are deleting comments that dare to question the lack of research, understanding, or empathy in the post. Etsy
- That's a shame, too, as the art installation by Anna Schuleit was quite striking as a memorial to all the people who ever stayed at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. These were living, breathing people who were treated like others. The flowers show the dissonance between human beings being locked away for observation and the lives they lived trapped in one place. Bloom
Finally, I remember when I last music directed a production of Anything Goes, our Reno Sweeney was sick a lot. It fell on me (in a limited run production without an understudy) to sing when she wasn't there for rehearsals. Jonathan Groff's performance of "Anything Goes" in the style of Sutton Foster gave me flashbacks to the grind of singing this song over and over until tech started. His aped performance is quite impressive.