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Apropos of nothing but just because I feel awesome about it: I ordered new glasses at a great store nearby! Which sadly, because of Easter long weekend won\u2019t be ready in another ten days or so. But still, NEW GLASSES! I wasn\u2019t planning to do so this weekend, but they had long been in the plans. I wear permanent glasses and the ones I am currently wearing are more than ten years old. But the newer pair I had was wrecked because it was such bad quality and so flimsy that it couldn\u2019t endure my 16+ hours of daily wear. So the new ones look amazing but they were entirely outside what I had planned to spend. This one time, I do not care for the excess. This model (in Havana color, which is a dark shade of caramel, almost black<\/a>, although in the photo the frame appears to be lighter than it really is), in case anyone wishes to judge my aesthetic choices.<\/p>\n

And then yesterday, I got tickets to see Fela! The original, Broadway and National Theater cast! And I am so, so excited because really\u2026 that musical looks kickass. Even though I\u2019ve read critics say stuff like \u201cThat\u2019s not how serious musicals\/ theater should be! It\u2019s too loud and too messy!\u201d. Bitch, please. I actually studied playwrighting for years (and not as a hobby, you know, but as a real degree thing, gasp! at a school even!) and say what you will about how \u201cserious\u201d theater should be like, a lot of the critics seemed to be on the verge of whitesplaining<\/em> what \u201creal theater\u201d is like. And these critics were horrified that the musical didn\u2019t include the \u201cseriously bad side\u201d of Fela Kuti. Which I don\u2019t recall them making the same point with Evita, and, given the fact that I am Argentinian and all, is nothing but a historical hot mess and a disastrous, blatant fictional representation of Argentinian history (maybe Evita did meet Che Guevara\u2026 in a parallel universe of sorts, because certainly it never happened in the same reality we all inhabit here on Planet Earth). I mean, maybe Fela! is bad, but many of the critics attacked it on the basis that it wasn\u2019t realistic (!! a musical not realistic?! You don\u2019t say!), there were \u201cshirtless black men acting too sexual\u201d and the music was way too loud. So anyway, I am going to see it by the end of June. And that makes me ass shakingly happy in anticipation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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