Slog - Comments on Let Us Now Praise Famous Geniuses http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/let_us_now_praise_fa It's always amusing to see how other critics around town respond to our newly endowed Geniuses. WET set designer Jennifer Zeyl usually gets and almost always deserves props for her work, but I don't think Seattle Times critic Misha Berson has ever led with three paragraphs on her designs before: First, let us go directly to the set. Washington Ensemble Theatre's world-premiere mounting of "The Museum Play" has a really nifty one. The company's ace resident designer, Jennifer Zeyl, has tucked a solid-white bedroom on one end of WET's small stage. Taking up more space is a corner of an... Copyright 2007 Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:05:30 -0800 Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:58:34 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Nick Set designer deserves props. Set designer deserves props. Set designer deserves props. Set designer deserves props.

]]> Nick http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/let_us_now_praise_fa#c459408 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/let_us_now_praise_fa#c459408 Arts Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:13:59 -0800 Comment by annie can't a girl get away with a stupid pun around here without being accosted? hi nick.

]]> annie http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/let_us_now_praise_fa#c459413 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/let_us_now_praise_fa#c459413 Arts Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:21:56 -0800 Comment by A Nony Mouse Oh, for christ's sake....are you folks really going to spend the next month gloating about how your geeeeniuses farts smell like freshly-cut roses?

Here's a thought: give the money away, then shut the hell up about it. That way, you don't sound like teenagers with an inferiority complex.

]]> A Nony Mouse http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/let_us_now_praise_fa#c459419 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/let_us_now_praise_fa#c459419 Arts Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:36:52 -0800 Comment by annie don't the geniuses deserve a little publicity to go along with their bag of cash? i think so.

]]> annie http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/let_us_now_praise_fa#c459422 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/let_us_now_praise_fa#c459422 Arts Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:40:55 -0800 Comment by A Nony Mouse Sure they do, Annie. In fact, that's what you call the feature issue you devote to them every year.

What you're doing now isn't publicity, it's gloating. Worse, you're not gloating for the geniuses, you're gloating for your own sense of self-satisfaction for picking the geniuses.

]]> A Nony Mouse http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/let_us_now_praise_fa#c459474 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/let_us_now_praise_fa#c459474 Arts Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:27:40 -0800 Comment by aric yes, annie, you folks at the stranger are king-makers. you wield incredible power.

]]> aric http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/let_us_now_praise_fa#c459566 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/let_us_now_praise_fa#c459566 Arts Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:10:23 -0800 Comment by Fnarf The above post by "Fnarf" is actually by Loser Paul in Seattle posing as me.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/let_us_now_praise_fa#c461080 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/let_us_now_praise_fa#c461080 Arts Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:16:03 -0800 Comment by jz Wow. This is hilarious. I've never visited the "SLOG" before. Had no idea.........

]]> jz http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/let_us_now_praise_fa#c465046 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/let_us_now_praise_fa#c465046 Arts Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:58:34 -0800