Le Jazz Hot! and Glee!

I now have a theory.

Chris Colfer, Kurt/Ryan Murphy's doppelganger from "Glee," was probably a Broadway diva in another life.

Perhaps Ethel Merman was reborn into this life as a gay man. Or he's where Julie Andrew's lost voice went.

I Write About Joaquin Phoenix

I write about Joaquin Phoenix. Why?

Who knows. Divine inspiration or exhaustion-fueled ramblings? You decide readers.

Though I will say one thing, I think I may be getting better at this whole pop-culture criticism thing. There's something kind of freeing about taking all of those loud opinions you have pent up - and everybody has them - and putting it to paper/word document.

Unfortunately, this was one high-profile film that I did not get a chance to see at TIFF.

Is 'I'm Still Here' Real or Fake? It's Still Brilliant

Save the Date: Oct 30, 2010

On Thursday night, Jon Stewart announced his "Rally to Restore Sanity," a once-in-a-lifetime conflagration of people who, prior to this, have never marched with the Tea Partiers or Glenn Beck or really, marched at all because, according to Stewart, "you have shit to do."

"You may be asking yourself, right now, sitting at home, but am I the right type of person to go to this rally," said Stewart. "The fact that you would even stop to ask yourself that question, as opposed to just, let's say, jumping up, grabbing the nearest stack of burnable holy books, strapping on a diaper and just pointing your car toward D.C. — that means I think you might just be right for it."

And since I am a reporter and not an officially-sanctioned critic (yet), it would probably be conflict of interest for me to advocate this. Let me just say that more than 89,000 people are attending on Facebook.

So watch (and laugh) at your own discretion.

Weekly Round-up

Instead of writing a blog post for every piece of writing that I do, which seems a tad excessive, I think I'm going to just place a link for everything that I've written during the week in a blog post. And it's also for my parents (hi Ba, Ma!) who will probably check this website from time to time, now that I told them that it exists. Whoops!

"Stage Plight" - "Syracuse New-Times"

• This one took about a month and a half to write. It was also a lesson, for me, in patience and realizing that just because you need it, sources still will not reply to your e-mails promptly

"Why 'Glee' Frustrates Me" - CDinsight.com

• My first post and I get $.01 cent for every hit. It's a ways away from actually getting paid to write but it's a start. And I've been meaning to write this type of article for a while, now I can.

"Sara Bareilles: Kaleidoscope Heart' - CDinsight.com

• I've been looking forward to this album for ages. And it almost satisfied.