Sunday, January 11, 2026
Theatre Beat
My amateur theatrical for lawyers returned to the stage over the past few days. It is always a really fun time that ends up reminding me that I am approximately 100 years old. I have essentially spent the past two weeks rehearsing every night, getting super amped up doing dumb shit with friends, coming home and being unable to sleep, and then working a full day analyzing emails people should never have sent and de-italicizing commas. So today I feel like napping all day and watching the first three episodes of The Traitors, as clearly there is nothing else more important on which I need to catch up.
I am both a writer and performer for the show, so I get the pleasure of recognizing my failings in both capacities. Sometimes writing that seems amazing in June seems hopelessly dated in January, which is why topicality has never been a huge goal for me here on the b-log. Also, believe it or not, I can be verbose. Long sentences are much easier to type than to bring across in front of a crowd. And on the performing front, I'm not necessarily your guy to put across puns or do impersonations. Although I would love to be given the chance to play Lisa Rinna, should there not be a scarecrow available to take on the role.
The past few years we have been lucky enough to perform our law skits in a beautiful old theatre, which seems quite likely to be haunted by a man with half a face and a penchant for dropping chandeliers on people. It was built at the turn of the century (not the recent one, the good one) and saw some famous faces back in the day, all of which are now super dead. So it's a perfect spot for me to debut songs where I rhyme things with "public lice."
Anyway, that happened and it's done. Now back to regularly scheduled programming. I've got some serious hibernating to do before the Spring.
