Bloody, Bloody Cheesecake

 It was night out again to a show - many start at 7pm on Thursdays - and for the second week in a row, the show has no intermission, a prime motivation to get out early. Of course my main motivation was checking out Juniors cheese cake after last week's great show (Brief Encounter) and lousy cheese cake experience at Lindy's (A Brief Encounter with Lindy's Cheese Cake).

So when we heard this discussion with Jackson bio Pultizer Prize winning author John Meacham last week we got tickets to "Bloody, Bloody Jackson." The evening started out well. High in the mezz where the seats are so tight you have to sit semi-sideways. But for the 6th time in a row my wife pulled lottery winners from TDF with an aisle seat for me (you don't get to choose your seats in TDF), no mean feat. Maybe she should try to get into Harlem Success Academy.

Well, that had to be the bloodiest awful show we have ever seen. Yes, worse than "Capeman." Less than sophomoric - freshmoric - or 8th grademoric - with historical inaccuracies - I started reading Meacham's book to get some background and also have read other stuff on Jackson recently in addition to watching a PBS documentary. So this mess tried to be both Saturday Night Live - also a dog of a show to me - and make serious political points - and it was boring too. If there were a second act, we wouldn't have been there.

But Juniors was just down the block.

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