Beware: The Chibis Have Taken Control!

OK, here it is. My semi-yearly freakout that LJ is going to the dogs and this is why none of my comms and friends are active anymore. :-P

Stolen from fyredancer
In case the dearth of content on your f-lists hasn't been a big enough clue, Livejournal is phasing out all of their U.S. staff, permanently.

http://www.dailydot.com/news/livejournal-shut-down-us-office/

It's not your Livejournal anymore, and hasn't been for quite some time. The message that SUP management is sending has been very clear: they don't want fandom on LJ anymore. But have faith, true fen! There are still journaling services who want you.
(/end stolen bit)

So, here's my question...

Anyone here on DW?

I can't quite seem to get used to the interface, myself -- too similar to LJ -- but I do keep my LJ entries imported and updated with, uh... some irregularity. -.-;;; Anyway, if you're over there, let me know. I'll add you.

Because, as difficult as I find DW to get used to, when LJ finally does turn itself into something I don't even want to associate with and destroys what little of fandom culture is still here... I'd rather jump ship to DW than to tumblr. Because fannish pursuits on tumblr make me more than a little uncomfortable. -.-;;;

OK, zoicite totally found this first, but it's still awesome and worthy of share-age. ^_^ Gavin Creel in Pippin? Dude... WANT! Hopefully he'll stay with it through its planned incarnations until it gets to Broadway. ^_^ How awesome? :D

Is Stephen Schwartz's Pippin Headed Back to Broadway?; Gavin Creel Part of Recent Reading - Playbill.com

In other news... Damn it. I will write today. I will write a lot. Or I will not even come close to a NaNo word count. :-P

*idly wonders if it counts that she did write like 5 pages in her fic notebook yesterday of that Alice fic for msorange21 that did indeed end up deciding to be a crossover with Primeval* I mean... they're still words... that I wrote... (even if I did it during math class... in the front row... right in front of the teacher... who kind of caught me at it but was nice enough not to say anything... O_O) Doesn't that count? *unsure but game smile*

Edit 7:31 PM: And we have about 1680 more words... over the last 9 days. Only about 30 of which were written since I declared that I would write a lot tonight. Dude. I fail. I fail hard. Maybe some ice cream will help...

32158 / 59337 words. 54% done!	32158 / 50000 words. 64% done!
This is depressing.	But this... this makes me feel a little better. *sigh*

OK, first off, I'm still high off of Gavin Creel's third and last Birdland show. He was even more corny and adorable than at the first show. And there were even more new songs! All of which were wonderful... and most of which made me want to bash Jonathan Groff in the face (or crotch, whichever was closer) with something heavy. Honestly, I caught Gavin wiping tears away after one or two songs. ;_;

That being said... Dude. Hobbit table. XD Sheer awesome. XD And so much more, but I'm just too tired and I can't even try to write it all.

Mainly, the point of this post was to share this article about Hair's new tour cast. The whole article is awesome, but here was my favorite two paragraphs:

"Hair's touring company is led by a phenomenally talented collection of actors. Burkhardt is perfectly cast as the sexy, mercurial Berger. As likely to charm a woman in the front row with his long dark hair and easy smile as to flirt with the man sitting next to her, Berger is the unofficial leader of the leaderless Tribe. He's the man who they all want to be. Or do. Or both."

Seriously? OMG, awesome. XD And so true!

"Burkhardt infuses the character with an undeniable magnetism, an effect heightened through his clear onstage connection with Remillard's Claude. The characters Claude and Berger are engaged in a mutual and uninhibited triangular relationship with Sheila. The two men love one another, and Remillard and Burkhardt communicate that intimacy in an entirely casual and naturalistic manner. They have developed something powerful that brings an even greater depth to the story, moving the audience to even greater investment in the pair."

*wobble eyes* Also, so true! The ease of the relationship between the two of them was one of the most beautiful things about this cast. I adore them so unbelievably much. And I seriously love how Sheila only got a brief half-line mention in an entire paragraph of gushing about Paris and Steel's Claude and Berger. :D

Now, go read the rest of the article! It's not very long and it's totally worth it.

Side note: So glad they seem to have found a blowdryer for Paris' wig. It looks much better now... a.k.a. almost like his real hair. ^_^