Dear friends, family, colleagues, and at least one of you who is reading this right now and asking, “…and you are?” Several readings, workshops, and presidential administrations after the fact, the Blau/Potochnik/Blau team is finally ready to unveil its latest theatrical sensation, Monica! The Musical. You should expect nothing less than the best in legitimate…

I totally didn’t feel this, but everyone I work with did. Yes, mom, I’m fine. No, mom, I’m not moving home.

Tired? Stressed at work? Had a shitty morning at the gym? Delirious with seething rage that the new AOL interface tries so hard to copy gmail that they rushed it out and now every time you try and check your email it makes everything else on your computer run at one-billionth the speed of a…

The appetizer: L merrily prepares to sing a duet with Sara M’s robot alter ego, “Vox.” And, the main meal: A pirate named Salty Pete. And yes, before you ask: he only sings songs that begin with the letter “Rrrrr!”

I feel like we were in the middle of something. What on earth was it? Oh, yes. I was singing “Shock the Monkey,” apparently about myself and my newly-installed monkey face. People singing karaoke is some ugly hoodoo, is what it is.

First, by specific request, this picture: And now…more songs! Hold On After discovering that this was not the Wilson Phillips song or any musical derivation therein, we pretty much decided we had no use for it. “Hold On” by Wilson Phillips is an untouchable classic! Don’t name another song “Hold On!” It would be like…

Wait…where were we? Oh, yeah. You may be asking: Yes, Dan, but…how does the game know if I’m awesome? Well, from the product description: …it’s a game that utilizes a system to measure and compare how closely you can match your tone of voice to the ideal tone for the song. On the screen, you…

This one is photo intensive. More words later. What were we talking about yesterday? Oh, yeah. This: The thing I worried about most — and oh, but did I WORRY — was that a karaoke game you play in your living room would lack the most important element of the karaoke experience: that of shamed,…

It’s time to talk about the karaoke. Recently, I celebrated my twenty-[cough]-nth birthday. Because I am a hopeless dork, this event was celebrated, in part, with the purchase of this game, which is known to some as “Karaoke Revolution 3,” and known to others as “The Greatest Game Ever Created In The Known History Of…

Adopt Me A Little – Caleb, despite being the worst father who has ever roamed the earth, makes Lindsay’s day when he commits to adopting her. Later, he ruins her day when he’s all, “Psych!” and pulls his hand away at the last second. Why? Worst father ever.