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| Sound familiar? |
You tell it, Elphaba!
Today I went to see the second part of Wicked, simply named Wicked: For Good in kinda a reprise of a Metairie Chicken ritual. But the Chinese luncheon was replaced by a to-go box of a single pizza slice with accompanying garlic knot and prices were a smidge more elevated than in the Metairie Chicken days during Koyo when I would see a matinee at Clearview Mall for about $6.50 and have a delish buffet meal at that place nearby for about the same. Now, the movie, supposedly with a 20% matinee discount, and a small soda which the cashier said was supposed to be about $7.65, I now see came to a total of $20.73. I think I got taken. Oh, and a slice (with free knot) at the in-mall pizza concession was $6.74 (yeah, so just one slice of pizza now is essentially more than an entire all-you-can-eat buffet meal back in 2003 or so). It's a wonder I never go anywhere anymore.
Costs aside though, like the first half, as I wrote here, I absolutely think they knocked it outta the park.
As I joked in that last post that I might pay some $30 to see this half, hinting at the way inflation is, I guess if you take into account the soda and zza, $27.47 isn't far off.
I also hoped my fake pal Bill would make it to see this part. As I mentioned, he is alive and, let me check -- ah fuck, I lost him again. I forgot where I saw his extant socials last time I found them. I guess like Elphaba he just got doused with a bucket of water by Dorothy, faked his own death and ran off to the unknown with a scarecrow, maybe this time for good.
EDIT: Found him. He's on Insta. I caught him cheatin' on that ol' floppy scarecrow with a green twink Grinch, the whore!
