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Casual Screaming About Lin-Manuel Miranda

Hello! Hello! So I fixed everything with my laptop and I have all of my photos back. And Avenue Q was amazing and I will write a blog post about it soon, hopefully.
Lin-Manuel Miranda with one of his Tonys
This post is about the amazing Lin-Manuel Miranda. He has won three Tonys, two Grammys, an Emmy and a Pulitzer Prize. He is so good he has been nominated for an Oscar and is so close to being EGOT status.

I have been a fan of Lin for years. Mostly on and off, because I first "discovered" him in Electric Company. He would do little skits with Shockwave. Shock would beat box and Lin would rap about different things. My favorite is "Silent E is a Ninja", included below:
I didn't really follow him after that. Similar to what happened with John Tartaglia after Johnny and the Sprites. It wasn't until March of 2016 that Lin came back into my life.

For months people had been telling me to get into Hamilton. It's a musical about American History with rap songs. I didn't really like US history at the time and I have never really been a huge fan of Hamilton. It wasn't until Andrew Chappelle posted a photo of himself and Jonathan Groff on Instagram that I wanted to get into it.
I fell in love with the musical as soon as I listened to "Satisfied". It's still my favorite song. I learned everything I could about the musical. I fell in love with US history, believe it or not. I am a person who likes to do research, so I did a lot of research after getting into Hamilton.
When Hamilton swept the 2016 Tony Awards, I was really happy about it, because I think they deserve all of the Tonys they took home. The musical itself and the cast are amazing. After getting into Hamilton, I got into In the Heights, which honestly, I like more than Hamilton because I relate more with ITH.
I knew of In the Heights beforehand, because if you know me, you know I like High School Musical, and Corbin Bleu was in In the Heights for a while. But I hadn't gotten into In the Heights until after Hamilton. And I also fell in love with 21 Chump Street, which you can watch below. It's just a short 15-minute show.

But back to the man who makes it all happen: Lin-Manuel Miranda. He is one of my heroes. He inspires me to write and I thank him for that. He inspires me to push through my writer's block which I get often (with this blog alone, it took me a month to write this post).
Not only is Lin very talented, his tweets are also entertaining, but don't put him on Tweet notification, because you will get spammed if he's not on vacation, but even then you're not safe. He is no longer performing in Hamilton, but he is writing, as he has informed people in his Tweets.
I have Lin on Tweet notifications and I often wake up to several of his Tweets, which I don't mind, but sometimes it gets overwhelming.
I'm sorry that this post is skimpy compared to the other "casual screaming about..." posts. I'm trying to get back into the groove of things, but it's been a month and I'm a bit rusty! So I apologize. They will improve and things will be back to normal, I promise.

Also, I am going back to school so I will try to do a post every day, but if that doesn't work out, it will be Fri-Mon and T, W, TH will not have a post since those are the only days I have classes. But let's see how this goes.
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