Tonight was the opening night of Shakespeare in the Park, and they opened with Hamlet, my very favorite :D And as brevity is the soul of wit (and tediousness it's limbs and outward flourishes) I will be brief ( Read more... )

Happy March 14th, all, my favorite day of the year ( Read more... )

So I finished the Hobbit today! Have you guys ever stopped to marvel that a book like that - a fairy tale for children and High Fantasy at its best - includes both Geopolitical Consequences and the Common Cold? When do you ever see disease in fiction that isn't plague? Give me an example of "and then this character was a bit under the weather ( Read more... )

Last night we went to see The Complete Works of Shakespeare: Abridged down at the Commons with Jon and Christin. I had never seen it before! And it was hilariousIf I call the three characters Superego, Ego, and Id, will y'all know what I'm talking about? They actually went by the actor's names, but this isn't useful for anyone who wasn't at the ( Read more... )

So, just for the record, I'm really really enjoying the Titan storyline in season 4 of Eureka. It's so different to have a story arc that isn't...sinister.

Speaking of sinister: WHY MORDRED WHY? Okay, answer: Because You're Mordred. And because of this, this, this, and this. And, really, it makes for a very good and compelling reason for his ( Read more... )

It is well past three in the morning and I just got back from CABS and I am completely whippy. I thought you should know.

We laminated the Hamlet Dramatis Personae and the HeroQuest character sheets, so they wouldn't wear out from too much erasing. And then Tim won Hamlet at the end of Act III with "The Merrie Comedie of Hamlet of Elsinore." We ( Read more... )

Just now I heard a cool sentence attested by tungol:

It thundered this morning and woke me up.I am going to claim that there is nothing odd about this sentence whatsoever from a speaker's perspective, nor even anything unusual when the context accounts for the extreme loudness (and happening-in-june ness) of Columbus thunder. Its meteorological ( Read more... )

Today's quote of the day is kindly provided by gwenlle:

"Hamlet would have been a much better play if it had a chorus. It made things go a lot faster. Much less whining, much more stabbing"

Apparantly in the Libation bearers the chorus takes on the roll of all of the likeable characters in Hamlet. Unlike in Gilbert & Sullivan (or, say Faust II) ( Read more... )