How the Internet Was Won

It's official: Lance Cardinal just won at internet. How did he beat all of the competition? He build his own Muppet Show Theater play set and then blogged about it for your pleasure. It's crazy, no doubt... but it's damn impressive. Lance claims that he used real concrete and maple wood, but as far as I can tell from the pictures, it's actually constructed from 100 percent pure awesome. Go to his blog to see all of the amazing pictures. It really is fandom at its finest.

Man, this blows my DIY Muppet merchandise out of the water.

Stephen Colbert... in Concert!

Specifically, he will be playing the role of Harry in the New York Philharmonic concert version of Stephen Sondheim's Company. If you're a Colbert fan who's not familiar with Company, it's a great show and the part is very well suited to Stephen's voice. His character is the principle singer of a song called "Sorry-Grateful". Here's a clip of the song from the recent -- and wonderful -- Broadway revival (featuring Keith Buterbaugh as Harry):



If you're a fan of Company who's horrified about the funny TV guy trying to sing, here's Stephen Colbert singing a duet with John Legend:



Need more? Here he is singing a duet with Elvis Costello:

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Oh, and in case you didn't know, the concert will star Neil Patrick Harris. Does anybody still need proof he can sing? Really? Okay, fine. Here's Neil showing how damn good he is with Sondheim:

The Worst Comment I've Seen In a Long While

An actor (who as of this moment remains unnamed) fell during the Monday night performance of the new Spider-Man musical. He was hurt, potentially very seriously. You can read more about it in this New York Times article. 

I think that any sane and decent person is just hoping that this guy recovers. I shouldn't be surprised that there are people online who are neither sane nor decent, and yet the comments section on the above New York Times story still caught me off guard. There are plenty of reasonable comments from people who are concerned about the injured performer and the safety of all of the other actors. But then there's the bitchy folks who seem to take glee in this. They don't want to see the show shut down for safety concerns--they just want to enjoy a juicy story about an epic flop closing while it's still in previews. Yeah, I expected that.

Here's what caught me off guard: The third comment was from Tom from Boston. Here's what he wrote:

"Whee! What a disaster! And all this to bring us the deathless literature of comic books. Good God, what has "culture" deteriorated into?"

Fuck you, Tom from Boston. Fuck you for being so indifferent to the fact that a man is in the hospital tonight. Fuck you for using his pain as an opportunity to show everybody how ever so superior you are. (Golly Gee, where would we be if we didn't have Tom from Boston to tell us how terrible comic books are?) Fuck you, Tom from Boston, fuck you for the sick implication that this accident somehow would have been acceptable if it had been the result of somebody trying to bring us culture (in a form that you consider to be undeteriorated.) Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, a thousand times fuck you for opening your jaw-droppingly shitty post by saying "Whee!"

Tom, if you're reading this, you're no doubt thinking that it's hypocritical of me to complain about your complete lack of decency and online etiquette by telling you to fuck off. (How vulgar of me!) But honestly, is there any more appropriate response?

You have no sense of humanity, Tom from Boston. Fuck you.