(I made this, I didn’t make the source material. That would be Lin-Manuel Miranda and Brad Falchuk)

The one week I’m not in NY, Jenna and Kevin are

Followup to the documentary post:

I had a photography gig today. Because I have zero internal concept of time, I was...very early to this gig. Call time was 6:30, I was at the venue by 5. Nobody was there which means that the space wasn’t set up, and so I couldn’t go in. Two blocks south is a large courtyard belonging to a local college. I decided to hang out there.

Half an hour later, a girl I went to summer camp with LITERALLY 22 years ago (yes, I am old as fuck) texts me out of nowhere saying that she is watching that unauthorized Glee documentary and there’s a shot of people behind a barricade waiting for the cast, and I was front and center in the shot. It is an astonishingly bad photo (well, video) of me.

This was when Glee was filming in 2011 for the S2 finale. I know this because that was the only time I went to see Glee filming anything. I had left NY (I’m back now and have been for 7 years) part of the way through S4, and my faves were still in Lima (filming in LA) at that point. The people who made the documentary must have depended highly on paparazzi footage because 2011 was before any of the shit went down with the cast.  I think this was when they were filming on the set of Wicked. I remember leaving after being told it was just Kurt and Rachel in the scene (not that I didn’t love them, but I wanted to meet Kevin and Jenna more). It turns out that more of the cast was on the other side of the theater with Ryan Murphy (this is where that bizarre gif of him petting Darren was from).

I just got a text message from someone I have not seen in fucking years telling me I showed up in that seedy glee documentary

Harry is on Kevin and Jenna’s podcast this week which means the podcast is going to be interesting and the comments section is going to be insufferable

According to Kevin and Jenna’s new podcast, Ryan Murphy explained that the reason Glee bloopers were never released was “because he respects his actors too much to do that to them.”

But writing their personal insecurities into rants against their characters, rendering characters basically mute for two seasons and then writing them as unstable after that, writing a big dramatic storyline to explain the absence of a “prize pony” performer who has to miss a couple episodes and punishing a different performer for taking on another much-shorter project by booting her from one of those episodes and never explaining why her character wasn’t there, and letting actors take the blame for bad decisions he made* was totally OK apparently????

* the Adam’s Apples (I think that’s what they were called) version of “Baby Got Back” was a stolen arrangement. RIB were wrong to use that version without permission, no doubt, but when the fandom called the theft out, who did the threats get directed to? The dude who played Adam, as if he were personally responsible. The fandom (and let’s be real, it was a specific corner of the fandom) acted like they were warriors for the cause of proper attribution and credit but if it was the *RIGHT* person (according to them) singing it to Kurt, they wouldn’t have given two flying shits about the arrangement being stolen and would have probably turned on Jonathan Coulton (who did the arrangement in the first place) 

Jenna and Kevin were on Drag Race Celebrity Edition (I wonder when this was filmed). Adorable.

As anyone who has seen this blog knows, I am NOT a fan of Blaine Anderson and I do not agree that Darren was the best thing to happen to Glee (IMO he should have been there for maybe four or five episodes at most). I try not to disparage him on a personal level because we share some friends in real life and I trust their judgement on who they are friends with. I am a firm believer that he is sincere in his friendships and his marriage, and other than the shoehorning of him into the BTS videos of episodes that didn’t focus on Blaine, I have absolutely no problem with his wife. I am genuinely happy for his growing family (although admittedly, partly because I know it makes the tinhatters seethe).

He just lost his brother in a particularly awful way and my thoughts are with him. I hope that he (and Mia and his mom and his brother’s widow and children) has good support at this time. 

JENNA USHKOWITZ IS PREGNANT AND IT’S A GIRL AND SHE’S DUE IN JUNE, SHE JUST ANNOUNCED!!!

not that I am complaining per se, but i am wondering why my neighbor and Kevin are exchanging thirst traps on twitter

It’s 2021 and there are still people who think “hating Artie Abrams” is a personality trait

Thoughts on whether certain Glee characters would get the vaccine (if they were in high school or working there in 2021):

Rachel: obviously got the vaccine. Wouldn't want to risk COVID damaging her voice.

Mercedes: same, but probably faced some resistance from her church community. Eventually convinced most of them (including her whole immediate family) to get the vaccine

Kurt: got the vaccine to protect Burt and Carole, but also because he definitely saw a designer vaccine card case on eBay and had to have it.

Brittany: thinks she got the vaccine, but isn't quite sure (got it at a farm, might have been horse medicine)

Santana: definitely got the vaccine but waited until the incentives started, won a lottery and Rachel is REALLY salty about it

Artie: got the vaccine before anyone else because he volunteered for the trials, falls asleep in school a lot because he's up all night online reporting anti-vaxers who got his image off a Google search and claim the vaccine made him paralyzed.

Tina: got the vaccine as soon as she became eligible and organized a drive to bring a mobile vaccination site to McKinley so students could get their shots on Fridays and have two days to recover, Schue assumed this would make her too busy to have a solo and screwed her over accordingly

Mike: got the vaccine and had no side-effects because all the popping and locking served as the "swinging your arm around" you're supposed to do after the shot

Sam: got the vaccine but was one of the later ones to do it, his parents mean well but definitely give me the "I fell into conspiracy theory shit because I saw a hashtag that concerned me" vibes, eventually was convinced by Will and Kurt to do it

Finn: put it off for a while because he thought his immune system would be able to handle COVID if he got it, then remembered the whole mono situation. Got his a few weeks after Kurt.

Quinn: got the vaccine but didn't tell anyone except Mr. Schue and didn't try to convince any of her family to get it (I feel like her mom would have gotten the vaccine eventually, her dad was def a superspreader though)

Puck: did not get the vaccine, figures he'll fight COVID the "badass" way if he gets it

Kitty: same, also probably an asymptomatic spreader

Marley: got the vaccine earlier than most because she went with her mom (who qualified early under a pre-existing condition) and CVS had extra doses at the end of the day

Jake: got the vaccine to impress Marley

Ryder: told Marley he got the vaccine, didn't

Blaine: parents have stock in ivermectin, they can't make money off the “treatments” if people aren't getting COVID so they're publicly anti-vax. Blaine eventually does get the vaccine, but he sneaks off to New York to do it because nobody gives a shit about his parents there. He does get a mild case of breakthrough COVID (from which he fully recovers) and he is very dramatic about it.

Unique: got her vaccine because she saw Kurt and Mercedes do it. Writes a beautiful song about personal responsibility and helping out one's fellow human after seeing many more people than she expected to see at her vaccine site, the Glee club practices it for weeks to perform it at regionals and then regionals get canceled because of the delta variant. When they get rescheduled, Mr. Schue completely forgets about the song and the Glee club ends up singing "Loser Like Me" for the 200th time

Joe: didn't get the vaccine until Quinn told him Jesus would have gotten the vaccine, still not entirely convinced Jesus ISN'T the vaccine

Sugar: accidentally got roped into volunteering at a vax site doing patient intake and gave impromptu concerts to vaccine recipients while they waited the requisite 15 minutes for a reaction, was given the vaccine early so that she would just leave and spare them (volunteers were initially going to receive the vaccine at the end of their four-week stint).

Coach Beiste: definitely got the vaccine, helped Tina and Mercedes with the effort to get students vaccinated, gave a big speech on the importance of the shot with figures of speech literally nobody understood

Will: got the vaccine, definitely rapped about it a little too much, refers to himself as Lin-Manuel Moderna for being the first faculty member at McKinley (after Emma, of course) to have gotten the shot

Emma: Got the vaccine but insisted the people giving it to her wear hazmat suits

Sue: COVID Patient Zero at McKinley

I’m sure I have said this before but there is a song called “Satellite of Love” in which the singer sings about someone he was with being “bold with Harry, Mark, and John.”

If Glee had gone with its original plan to have Artie better himself to win back Tina, Mike could have rebounded with Rachel. Harry would have gotten more screen time as a result, Tina and Artie would have been able to grow together as a couple more organically and get a duet much sooner, and Finn would have been able to sing “Satellite of Love,” because Rachel would have dated Mike (Harry), Puck (Mark), and Jesse (Jonathan, but we’ll call him Jon for short).