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Report on the taping of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me last night: amusing. Glad we went. I had a question of how much material they edit out to get to the 50 or so minutes that they broadcast. The answer: about 50%. We now have to remember to download the podcast on Sunday to see what made it in and what didn't.

We were in the nosebleed section of the Winspear Opera House, because when I bought the tickets I looked at how much it cost to sit in a section where we could actually see the faces of Carl Kasell, Peter Sagal, and the panelists instead of the top of their heads, and decided that our commitment to public radio wasn't that much, and got the cheapest seats. Which were technically obstructed: in other words, while we weren't the highest-seated people there, we were still on the 5th level, and in a single row off to the side, which meant we had to lean forward and peer over the balcony edge to see any of the stage. Which wasn't too bad. On the bright side, when we got tired of leaning forward, we could lean back in our seats and it was just like we were listening to it on the radio!

I snapped a couple of blurry pictures of the Opera House with my phone before the show started.

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elsane links us to a parody of Les Misérables about and by, of all things, the Korean Air Force. My quota of surrealism for the day has been reached.

It also proves what I suspected to be true: that the relationship between Valjean and Javert is still more interesting than that between Marius and Cosette, even when Valjean and Marius are conflated.

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If you're coming to ConDFW and haven't made hotel reservations, we need you to do so ASAP: we haven't made the room block (which is odd, as we have the same number of pre-reg that we usually do), and the con will be seriously in the hole if we don't, as in not being able to afford another year. (You can thank the Snowpocalypse for doing a number on our finances a couple of years ago.) PLEASE PASS THIS ON.

ETA: We're getting reports now that people trying to book are finding that it won't let them. Please screenshot (if you're online) and email the screenshot and/or a report to Amie Spengler at condfwinfo@gmail.com, so she has fodder for her Very Strong Words with the hotel tomorrow!

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