Toast Points for the Week of December 4th

by Nicole Chung · December 4, 2015
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Toasties! On Tuesday of this week the brilliant and beautiful Jaya Saxena joined us in an official staff writerly capacity! Read Jaya’s first post as a staff writer, check out everything else she’s done for us, envy her jumpsuit game, be her friend if you’re not already!

Do read Teresa Mathew on photojournalism and its potential for exploitation, particularly of marginalized communities.

TRUTH

My final post for our National Adoption Month series was about openness in adoption and the messages adopted kids often receive about where we “belong.” (It was also a little bit about the Sesame Street movie Follow That Bird. Sorry.)

Here is an Advent calendar, should you happen to be looking for some nice seasonally apropos meditations that definitely won’t give you waking nightmares.

“I don’t want to read another metaphor or allegory about that which is so rarely just spoken of plainly, unremarkably, first of all with truth“: K. Tait Jarboe on abortion, allegory, and the limits of empathy.

I LOVE Jane the Virgin (I am at the end of season one! Let’s talk about this show ~*~forever~*~!) and Jane and Petra and Petra and Jane and I am 1000% here for this.

And finally: Murphles.

A day or two ago on this very site I actually had to delete this trolling comment: “wait, isn’t one of the Schuyler sisters white?” Friends, we do not question Phillipa Soo’s Asianness at The Toast! I’ve put up with oh, so many slights as a lifelong fan of both musical theatre and opera and you will kindly let me have this ONE. LITTLE. THING.*

* hey hey hey hey guess who’s seeing Hamilton tomorrow!!!!! Oh, you guys. The world will never be the same.

Nicole Chung is the Managing Editor of The Toast.


24 Comments

  1. ppyajunebug +40

    OMG YOU’RE GOING TO SEE HAMILTON???? ARE YOU GOING TO SEE THE HAM4HAM SHOWS???? BRACE YOURSELF, YOUR LIFE WILL LITERALLY NEVER BE THE SAME

    1. nicolescchung +24

      IN NEW YORK YOU CAN BE A NEW (WO)MAN, as my friend Meg texted me this morning

      I won’t be there for #Ham4Ham! It’s before the matinee, right? I’ll still be on the train at that point!

          3. dakimel +13

            Sure, but HERE’S THE THING:
            Sunday, you’ll be laying in bed, scrolling through Twitter, craving coffee or tea or whatever, and you’ll see someone uploaded Saturday’s #Ham4Ham, and it’ll be super, and you’ll watch it, and even though you had the most transformative experience of your life mere hours before, a hollowness will edge into the corner of your heart, and henceforth, no dessert will ever taste as sweet.

            Proceed with caution, is all I’m saying.

            (It’s possible that my raging jealousy over your show attendance is making me lash out, trying to cruelly sabotage this incredibly exciting & fancy experience for you. I am kind of monstrous, after all.)

  2. gclouts +25

    I found that the problem with seeing Hamilton live was that you immediately wanted to watch every performance even MORE than you already did prior to seeing it live, which seemed impossible at the time, but you also cannot justify spending that amount of money twice on the same thing. And you don’t live in NYC so you can’t do lotteries.
    Also just the dehydration from crying for two and a half hours straight while watching the show. Enjoy it!

    1. nicolescchung +30

      I’ve set the “control yr emotions, Nikki” bar suuuuper low for this; like, if I make it to the end of “My Shot” without straight-up sobbing it shall be a MORAL VICTORY.

      1. gclouts +15

        It was such an experience. Not only does it have the emotions of the show, you also just feel “Man, this is something really special happening right now and I actually get to be in the room where it happens.” I’m so excited for every person who gets to see it.

        But yeah, I made it as far as “Me, I trusted him” before crying. Making it through the first song, let alone all the way to “My Shot” should be considered whatever is greater than a moral victory- ontological victory?

    2. CleverManka +13

      I’m fully prepared to bring an entire box of Puffs with me when I see it in March, along with a gallon Ziplock bag for disposal. No shame.

    1. nicolescchung +49

      the funniest thing in my life right now is my 4-year-old squeaking “WORK” every time this song comes on in the car