guys my hamilton obsession is getting scary, half my day is now just texting Matt Lubchansky to see where he currently is in HIS eternal loop of the cast recording, help me. also, LOOK AT THE CASTING LIST, THIS IS SO GREAT
[HAMILTON]
Yo, Eliza, I don’t have a dollar to my name
An acre of land, a troop to command, a dollop of fame
All I have is my honour, a tolerance for pain
A couple of college credits and my top-notch brain
Insane, your family brings out a different side of me
Peggy confides in me
Angelica tried to take a bite of me
No stress, my love for you is never in doubt
We’ll get a little place in Harlem and we’ll figure it out
I’ve been living without a family since I was a child
My father left, my mother died, I grew up buck wild
But I’ll never forget my mother’s face, that was real
As long as I’m alive, Eliza, swear to God you’ll never feel so
[COMPANY]
Helpless
By 1970, appliances, ready-made food, and other technologies had reduced both the amount and the rigor of household work and rendered domestic help a luxury. By the 1980s, household help was played for laughs on sitcoms such as “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” and “Mr. Belvedere.” It was a running joke on “The Gilmore Girls” that Lorelei Gilmore’s wealthy mother Emily couldn’t keep a maid. By then, only women of Emily’s class were expected to have one.
By contrast, in 1959, when the Douglas Sirk domestic melodrama Imitation of Life was nominated for two Academy Awards, maids were a mundane aspect of the middle class experience. And the reason for the shift is not merely that Sears started selling affordable dishwashers and laundry machines.
I have watched this happen, and it REALLY turns people off your candidate:
Over the past few months, Sanders’s predominately white backers have used Twitter to target any black activist or journalist who dares question the candidate’s civil rights record. The battle reveals a long, simmering racial divide in the progressive movement that continues to go unacknowledged. If Sanders wants to win black voters he’ll need to address it.
This Hajj stampede is so horrifying.
My friend Carrie says her new puppy is so gawky she’s basically ready to read Judy Blume:
HAMILTON is without question the best musical I’ve ever seen in my life.
— Saeed Jones (@theferocity) September 24, 2015
Halfway into the first act of HAMILTON, @AngelNafis whispered to me “Nigga, I might not survive this show. You might be alone by the end.” — Saeed Jones (@theferocity) September 24, 2015
HAMILTON 2016.
— Saeed Jones (@theferocity) September 24, 2015
