Tonight Kathleen and I went to the Fox Theatre to see The Drowsy Chaperone, as she had gotten free tickets from an acquaintance through work.

I actually enjoyed it, and found it to be a pretty unique play (at least to someone who doesn’t attend musicals all too often). The story was supposed to be an old 1920’s play being told through a character that existed outside of the story and yet was on the stage at all times, and we were being shown the play by way of a double vinyl album playing on his record player (which could be paused to explain or discuss things, and could skip ahead or replay scenes). Also it had the mother of the girlfriend of Ray Romano’s brother on the show Everybody Loves Raymond in it too, for what it’s worth.

Although, we were in front of a middle aged (or older) couple who could’ve been mistaken for middle school students in a movie theater. If I had actually paid for those tickets, I may have given the full turn with the eye roll in addition to the half turns…

Finally a candidate that’s asking the tough questions

In 1969, at a hospital in South Carolina, all of its black nurses went on strike in hopes of receiving equal pay and treatment as the white nurses. Many people (who now, you may know from street names here in Atlanta), including Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, and Ralph Abernathy, went to SC to assist in the movement. Andrew Young met with the only person in the hospital that would talk with him, and resolved an end to the strike. And that person was the new vice president at the medical college, appointed just days before the strike took place, and who was father to a boy who would become the greatest American alive, Stephen Colbert. And now you know… the rest of the story (sorry, I couldn’t help it).

I just found this to be really interesting, and upon looking up facts about Colbert, I found out another strangely interesting detail. Stephen Colbert’s father and two of his brothers died in a plane crash… on September 11th, 1974… very strange…

I just got a call from my brother… and it seems I’m soon to be an uncle… That’s so wierd…

Congratulations Matt and Brooke