Is the next musical up in the 'big tent' of the Pavillion this summer. Lots of paintering going on on stage all afternoon and evening. The round stage of the arena is covered in scaled up 'newspaper and print' from headlines in all caps to tightly packed columns of articles. It's going to look amazing under lights. I have seen many of the shows that reach the Music Circus stage elsewhere... and while the quality here is always good, its difficult being a professional in the industry and not being jaded... its hard to knock my socks off with a show, especially when I've seen it before and have something to compare it to. And, for that matter, the more years I work with theatre, the easier it is to compare shows of a similar style and not even need to be yet another repeat.

Fortunately for me, the next three productions all look like they're going to be ones I'll enjoy AND I've not seen any of them live... though I have, admittedly, heard some of the music performed in reviews. Newsies, Gypsy, and Mamma Mia... and then we'll close with Little Shop of Horrors, which is a fun show, but I've actually done two productions of it personally and see at least two more.

Something else that should be greatly entertaining is today's new content. Morpheus brings us another Imp driven story, his seventh in the canon progression. It's great stuff and completely "Imp-ervious to Reason".  This is Part 1. Enjoy. :)

Oops. Sorry I'm late with this weeks update. Came home from work this afternoon and crashed... forced napping. 

Today's content comes to you from Texas, as Elrod kicks and fights his way out of the untamed wilds of post-flood construction woes and a whole grocery list of unfriendly bits of injury, illness, and ill-repute. Wait... just the first two. He hasn't admitted to the last one yet. But there's some squirrelly behavior going on, or so our revenuer... friends... tell us. It's "My Fair Shine" (Part 2)... read, enjoy, and comment. I'm sure Elrod will happily welcome your comments, now that he's back in the saddle after all the craziness he's been through.

So, still haven't gotten to Infinity War... but I plan on ending that delay tomorrow. Going to make it a 'movie day' and go out to the plaza for the whole day... watch Infinity War, grab lunch, watch Solo, and then if I'm still up for it, I'll catch Deadpool 2. It's been ages since I did this (not very often that there's a full day of shows I am willing to pay cinema prices for, but even so I simply haven't had a day to do it on for some time). I'm looking forward to it. :)

Then, I have a couple days that I intend to put into writing. There's several things I'm working on that I feel ready to make progress on... some Whateley pieces (a few of which are on the radar and expected - the next Fling, the next Esoteric, part 2 of Good Cop Bad Cop, and some that aren't), a MAU story, the sequel to Glass, and a couple other mainstream fantasy and sci-fi pieces. I'll flip some coins or something and see what I end up working on. I do plan to get a good bit of writing done this summer, but it wouldn't be the first time someone's thrown a monkey wrench into my scheduling.

Here on the Whateley front, a number of people have kicked down blocks in the past couple weeks and a bunch of new scenes and stories have been thrown around and posted for review lateley. That's always good news.

For today, we've got a little collection of shorts for you. From Morpheus, the collection is being called "Brief Glimpses". This is a series of stories expanding on some of the supporting characters that are part of the new school year and his recent stories. Enjoy!

I haven't seen Infinity War yet, so I've been avoiding discussions of it. This being the internet though, I haven't been able to avoid 'all' the advertising and comments, of course. Just the bulk of the spoilers. I hope to get in to see it tonight or tomorrow while I have some time fr.

So here, you go... Part 2 of Bek D Corbin's "Evil Geniius"

Taxes done for another year. Next year will hopefully be simpler, now that we're using Patreon instead of Google ad revenue for site support. Nothing quite like having to pay income tax on ad revenue that mostly goes directly to server hosting fees.  The obnoxious part of it is that any of the 'free' online tax services... the moment you toss a 1099 into the pile, it goes from being a 'free' filing to $100 or more for self-employed filing. I managed to balance out pretty well this year. I may have ended up paying more for filing this year, but I balanced my payroll deductions better. I'm actually getting a small return from both federal and state... though combined it will come about thirty dollars short of the fees to file. Close enough, I guess.

How about the rest of you? Filed? Extended? Getting a return or not?

We have some new content for you tonight. It's a new piece, set in the first year of the 2nd Gen timeline but off campus... and its called "Evil Genius." Besides showing what a certain young Fixer from the original timeline is getting in to now that she's an adult... you get a look at some of the options that are available for mutants who don't luck out by hearing about and being able to afford Whateley. Enjoy!