New kitchen sink thread here, but this time I'm not listing topics and tying my hands over putting up a dedicated thread later. FOOL ME ONCE, HEEBIE.

We took the kids to see Hamilton last night. They're all extremely the right age for it.

I feel like it became fashionable at some point to shit on Hamilton, and I think the critique goes something like this: the story is either inaccurate or not well-interpreted, and layering the black culture on top of it does not actually threaten the status quo. It just takes black style and culture, and uses it to pizzazz up old white guys.

Maybe so! It probably did get overhyped in its heyday.

But I'm here to say that the songs are still just great songs, and the lyrics are still extremely clever and funny, and it's still very sad at the end. It's okay if it's just mythologizing the founding fathers through a modern black style, and maybe not more than that.

I'm unusually sleep-deprived right now, though.