Depends on the opera. I won’t go see any of Puccini’s depressing slogs without at least three stiff ones. For binge-watching the Ring cycle, coffee works better. I’m not sure what’s best for something like De Materie, though I think watching people in NYC sing to livestock would put a smile on the faces of many Iowans without the aid of any libation. (There’s a two-headed sheep in Monticello that you could write an opera about, I reckon.)
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For admission or just my sanity?
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Isn’t that odd, since mine are effectively limited?
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Where are your questions?
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Aw, c’mon, aren’t some operas quite entertaining?
And won’t I admit that some are boring, since I had to sit through 1.5 boring shows as part of the opera season tickets I bought one year?
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does anyone here besides me get really irritated at an incompetent use of both language and science in commercials and public speakers? has anyone else seen the ad for a type of non-stick cookware that i saw this morning which claims the non-stick surface is “chemical free?” does anyone here really think they’ve managed to produce a frying pan which uses solidified light/electrical/magnetic/thermal/nuclear energy to make a non-stick surface? does anyone here have any idea how one would make a non-stick surface out of matter which could in any sense be described as “chemical free?”
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Would you believe I’ve been contemplating organizing something like that? 
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Can I be Caliban? Or would you prefer me not to be typecast?
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As the former leader instigator of a community-run podcast of short stories, wouldn’t I suggest a re-write before casting (to retcon cell phone voicemails) to deal with differing quality levels of audio equipment?
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Some random guy? Griffin Newman, from…er…a few episodes of Vinyl?
But Jackie Earl Haley as The Terror?
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In teapots, often enough?
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jungian analysis of the current presidential race anyone?
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Would you be having me on?
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is anyone else in this game a school teacher?
do any of you spend time the sunday before school starts going back and getting ready like i do?
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Am I not on the “student” side of that equation? And don’t I hope that my profs are prepping today for tomorrow’s classes, as I am still lacking syllabi from two of them?
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I rarely give my syllabus out until the 2nd or 3rd class; is that really so irritating?
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But won’t I always associate the Tick with Patrick Warburton?
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Do you also avoid giving out homework info until about 10:00-10:30pm at night, when the class started at 8:30am the next day? Because didn’t one of my kids have a college language professor like that? And wasn’t she told she probably just didn’t understand how college worked?
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Would someone really do that? Why wouldn’t I let them know what their work is ahead of time because I actually want them to do it and to get something out of it? Isn’t that the point of going to college, to learn something? Maybe it was the professor who needs to learn how “college actually works”?
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Don’t I agree with you totally? Wasn’t I horrified to think that someone could be that unprofessional? Didn’t I ask a friend who is a tenured professor for his opinion, and didn’t he tell me that there’s nothing to be done because no one is allowed to question how a teacher teaches a class at the college/university level unless they break a law?
Would it surprise you to learn that he was also a very bad teacher in general? And that she’s had two other teachers since then in the same language from the same school, both of whom were significantly better, and who did not think highly of the first teacher at all? How could all three be at the same level in the same school, despite being of clearly different skill levels?
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