Media
Wicked The Musical on Broadway
Felt like a time capsule of a simpler time in the 2000’s. The overall theme seems to be “Maybe the baddies are good if you look at it the right way”. That’s a totally reasonable message in the cultural context of a world that was actively debating Islam in America, gay marriage, whether or not to go to war in the Middle East, etc. It feels less culturally relevant now so it has to stand on its merits as a musical alone. On that front, not bad, but also not my favorite personally. Awesome costumes and set design but sorta bland music minus the one song everyone knows. I had the equivalent of 4 glasses of wine while watching and had a great time even if I’m more of a sucker for musicals about the oppression of Eastern European Jews.
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Oh Mary! starring Cole Escola
Every play should be a little weirdo’s silly bit that got out of hand and made it on Broadway somehow.
The Talos Principle 2
A great sequel to a great puzzle game, though it lacks the moody mysterious loneliness of the original it makes up for it in the new mechanics that make the first game feel like tic tac toe.
1870: Railroading Across the Trans Mississippi
The best 18xx train game around. A few simple changes from the stock rules of 1830 leads to an incredible 4 hour brain melter. Deeply strategic stock trading meets unforgiving track engineering. Perfect.
143 by Katy Perry
I really wanted to like this album. I’m a contrarian by nature and seeing people decide ahead of time that it would be bad because they dislike Katy Perry for obscure sociopolitical reasons had me primed to call it a masterpiece, but there’s maybe 3 songs on this album total that even deserve a repeat listen. Just sort of nothing really. Already forgot I heard it. I would love a Perryssance but it’s going to take more than a couple 4x4 house tracks.
“Sweet Thang” The third track on Shuggie Otis’ 1971 album ‘Freedom Flight’
Really good for driving. Make a man feel as though one of these days God’s punishment will come both just and swift but it ain’t today, today you can just keep on driving.
Patty Reviews
I like it, but I can’t give it a full 5 stars because there is a part of me, a very small amount though, that feels just a tiny little bit narcissistic about thinking me and my family members have the most interesting opinions on everything.
Perfect for anyone who’s ever thought “the Pattys have the best opinions on everything, I wish I had a catalog of everything they’ve ever had an opinion on”
I made this site so by all rights I should give it 5 stars, but there's a certain level of narcissism involved in spending an ungodly amount of time making a site to catalog mine and my family's opinions so I'm taking a star off as penance.
We're right about everything so of course this is 5/5
Not nearly as fun as it used to be.
Rebecca refuses to like anything on Twitter but when you tell her a funny little anecdote she says “oh yeah I saw your tweet”
I basically only read my siblings tweets. Then I pretend that I'm not even on social media these days even though I send them likes. So far I have fooled them.
Yeah, it has gone down hill fo sho.
Basically Facebook at this point.