I know, I've seen the scythe in its sheath

[sovay]

I was mistaken for an academic this afternoon at the bookstore which made me want to go home and shoot myself in the head, but when I actually got home a package of white chocolate and lemon Milanos was waiting for me from selkie and I managed to get a picture before the rain started of the previously mentioned neighborhood decoration.



Every single review I have encountered so far of Death by Lightning (2025) has proceeded from the assumption that the reader and by extension the viewer has never heard of Charles Guiteau and only vaguely, perhaps dutifully of President James Garfield and I just don't think Sondheim fans are that thin on the ground. At least it should popularize this particularly indelible fact.

Comments

[sovay]

I hadn't heard the ballad, but I thought it was excellent, especially the line "The Lord's my employer and now he's my lawyer," heh.

I don't have a favorite Sondheim musical, but I am really fond of Assassins. "The Ballad of Czolgosz" is extremely catchy and often in my head.

[ladymondegreen]

I still use "The Gun Song" as a vocal warmup. It's definitely one of the musicals I impressed on in high school and was in regular rotation along with Phil Ochs' There and Now: Live in Vancouver which has similar themes.

[sovay]

It's definitely one of the musicals I impressed on in high school and was in regular rotation along with Phil Ochs' There and Now: Live in Vancouver which has similar themes.

That was the first Phil Ochs album I ever owned. Its version of "Crucifixion" still frightens me.