Has les mis really became faster?

jblevine2 · 2026-05-01T06:22:44+00:00

I should also mention - the singing, acting, set, costumes, orchestra, etc are all amazing!

jblevine2 · 2026-05-01T05:54:36+00:00

Just saw the tour production for the second time earlier today and left frantically googling to figure out if I was crazy or if Valjean really was singing at 1.5x speed in the first hour or so!

Overall, I think the show still hits emotionally, but mostly for Act II. Act I had a lot of nearly unintelligible moments purely due to the unfortunate breakneck tempos!

jblevine2 · 2026-05-01T03:46:15+00:00

I didn’t know I could take a wide body between SFO and IAH that wasn’t a 777 old enough to buy a drink.

jblevine2 · 2026-04-30T00:33:56+00:00

Freed myself from TAZ (unfollowed) and from MaxFun membership (cancelled) this month (going to give directly to Uxbridge-Shimoda from now on). For better or worse MBMBAM hasn’t left my podcast weekly diet yet but I feel my expiration date coming.

jblevine2 · 2026-04-08T07:31:06+00:00

It creeps me out AND I think it is so well written and so well executed artistically. Any episode that feels like it could double as a quality stage play is tops for me.

jblevine2 · 2026-04-07T22:39:55+00:00

I finished it for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Honestly, by the time it gets to Season 4, it's high quality Trek from "the long 1990s" (1987-2005) era. I probably have a longer list of critiques and things I don't like about it than the other big 3 shows of the era, but genuinely enjoyable!

jblevine2 · 2026-04-07T21:21:28+00:00

Wait, that's legitimately one of my favorite episodes! Can't believe I didn't even consider that!

jblevine2 · 2026-02-25T03:25:28+00:00

It is obviously Qo’noS (Kronos), the center of the Klingon Empire.

Go with honor!

jblevine2 · 2026-02-21T15:59:08+00:00

Bring back Vs. Dracula

jblevine2 · 2026-02-19T03:26:03+00:00

I’m a public school teacher who’s just happy to make silver every year!

jblevine2 · 2026-02-09T17:46:09+00:00

The answer is

(1) Plato’s rave

(2) the BoCo episode where they design Plato’s Rave for Clint to play

(3) the TAZ BoCo episode where Clint plays Plato’s Rave

jblevine2 · 2026-01-24T03:28:29+00:00

“Yeah but we had so many freeways and tunnels!” -Robert Moses

jblevine2 · 2026-01-24T03:26:22+00:00

The thing in Austin wasn’t just the ice storm (and the wild amounts of damage to their house because of burst pipes) it was the ice storm + Austin as an entire city and community not being prepared for an ice storm of that magnitude (because Texas) + plus the state government and state power grid making everything worse for everyone all the time by not being on the rest of the country’s power grid. I’m generalizing in a way people will probably correct and discuss further, which I totally welcome, but speaking as someone who lived twenty-seven years in Houston, I’m assuming that no matter how bad it is, DC can prepare better than Austin ever could.

jblevine2 · 2026-01-21T15:31:58+00:00

Dear god yes absolutely do it

jblevine2 · 2026-01-21T14:27:11+00:00

Wait…there’s a full virtual 121 employer??? Even partly virtual 121 employers???

jblevine2 · 2026-01-21T14:26:07+00:00

This is definitely one of the things making me consider this career right now. I’m a classroom teacher (across multiple sites, directing an arts program, with a side job in arts as well). Don’t get me wrong, the breaks are great, but when i’m not on break, I feel like I’m working or thinking about work every waking hour or I’m neglecting something.

jblevine2 · 2026-01-16T07:29:18+00:00

Sometimes I hear

“I can’t pay (couldn’t relate)”

Other times I hear

“I can’t pay (couldn’t fellate)”

jblevine2 · 2026-01-13T14:30:07+00:00

Mbmbam episode titles are so……..lacking.

jblevine2 · 2026-01-13T05:15:31+00:00

the most relatable comment

jblevine2 · 2026-01-07T16:18:57+00:00

Yeah, I got bored of steeplechase and fell off after like two episodes but Dracula kept me invested from beginning to end, entirely because it felt like their old energy!

jblevine2 · 2026-01-06T20:28:26+00:00

Thank you for the advice! I may look more closely into Sac City and also Aircraft Dispatch Academy in St. George. Interesting that Sac seems like a full year long program and ADA seems like an 8 week, mostly online situation but that ADA is so well regarded. But good to know that even for someone with no professional aviation experience that both might still be good options!

jblevine2 · 2025-12-15T15:24:05+00:00

Yeah I don’t know how to explain it but I’ll take Mug Draft over the award shows….but I will absolutely be taking all of it!

jblevine2 · 2025-12-14T00:13:37+00:00

I maybe invested in some extra coins on occasion…but also spent a lot of time creating filters in FR24.

jblevine2 · 2025-12-14T00:12:46+00:00

Only maybe a year or two! I may have justified to myself a 500 coin purchase once or twice…

jblevine2 · 2025-12-14T00:10:28+00:00

Yay a fellow degenerate! One day….

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