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Sunday, February 6, 2011

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Posted by Dan Savage on Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 3:22 PM

Who's winning?

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I love you, Dan.

Posted by Web B. on February 6, 2011 at 4:08 PM

Who's winning? Shoot, who's PLAYING?

Posted by blah on February 6, 2011 at 4:26 PM

Green Bay had 2 touchdowns last I checked.

You're not watching for the commercials, Dan? I'm not watching it since I don't have a tv, but there's a good live play-by-play of the commercials at http://mashable.com/2011/02/06/super-bow…

Posted by Rach3l on February 6, 2011 at 4:31 PM

Is this the song with the estimable line: "He slipped and tripped in a hip bath"? And if I did somehow attend the Super Bowl, I'd go masked.

Posted by Rhett Oracle on February 6, 2011 at 4:42 PM

May I offer, as a further counter programing:

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmt0DmiRh…

Posted by Canadian Joe on February 6, 2011 at 4:46 PM

Aaaaaaand this is why I love you, Dan.
Is the Super Bowl today?

Posted by nocutename on February 6, 2011 at 5:46 PM

Rumor has it there's some sort of sports event today. I can't confirm, though...

Posted by BEG

on February 6, 2011 at 6:24 PM

In honor of homosexuality and [what the rest of the world calls] football, please enjoy this stadium full of drunken Liverpool fans singing their official team anthem, from "Carousel": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asg-VcfU7…

Posted by this guy I know in Spokane on February 6, 2011 at 6:31 PM

I can't believe Dan didn't join Live Slog. Party pooper.

Posted by Canuck on February 6, 2011 at 7:30 PM

For those of us who prefer a more mainstream, low-brow musical, I offer you this....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wCXr_6wg…

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay

on February 6, 2011 at 7:54 PM

@8, the modern rendition of "You'll Never Walk Alone", with piped-in accompaniment, pales next to the classic singing of the 1960s. Check out this rendition from 1970 (check out the terrifying crowd waves too).

Better yet, this amazing BBC report on the Kop singing "She Loves You" from 1964: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Ywgj2PW…

Posted by Fnarf

on February 6, 2011 at 7:57 PM

You don't do much to fight the stereotypes Dan...

Posted by Urgutha Forka on February 6, 2011 at 8:15 PM

@8 that song should not be profaned, though it often is. I still miss Billy Bigelow every once in a while. His absence (not softened a bit in the musical) is felt for days after you've left the theatre. I suspect that for it's target generation his absence was felt for much of a lifetime.

Posted by kinaidos on February 6, 2011 at 8:24 PM

@11 - thanks, that's some good good stuff.

Posted by this guy I know in Spokane on February 6, 2011 at 8:45 PM

A weekend in the Country Watching Little Things Grow

Posted by Malcolm in Sydney on February 6, 2011 at 9:18 PM

Thanks for the superb palate cleanser, Dan.

Posted by jasonzenobia

on February 7, 2011 at 9:28 AM

Dan I would have never dreamed you were a Sondheim fan! What a fabulous production! Sondheim's only straight {as in no deep questions, just surface story and singing} musical! Did you see the Boradway Assasins?

Posted by wine-o on February 7, 2011 at 5:52 PM