Passing Notes

Perhaps you've seen theater critics furiously scribbling in their little notebooks in the dark, and you've wondered what incisive commentary they're setting down to use later in some review you're never going to read.

I wish I could tell you. I scribble my own notes, of course, but when I look at them later, I find incisive commentary difficult to come by (if I can read my scratchings at all). In fact, I'd say about 97% of the notes I take are useless. A sampling from the notebook I currently carry around:

I would've done more sit-ups if I had to be naked in front of all these people.

BWA [which stands for Bad Wig Alert]

More mist up in here than in Phantom of the Opera

Dude is about 5 years older than his son.

Faux-hawk poorly styled

I hate the guy on my right.

I'm about to scoop out my eyeballs with this pen.

So are we in outer space or the future?

Harold Ramis--Egon

Miners in Little Rock?

Adam and Steve (Adam's the bottom)

Nary a chuckle

I think they bought these props at Stein Mart.

So far, so tone deaf

Grendel = Elphaba

She looks like my mom.

Ben: retarded or a child?

Cathy Guisewite