We love one particular national institution here in Washington, the Kennedy Center, and last evening we had a unique experience there. It was a genuinely odd production of "Measure for Measure" -- considered to be Shakespeare's only "other" play about justice and mercy ("Merchant of Venice" being the first ( Read more... )

I just sent this to a Tumblr friend who is French:

"You probably heard -- Macron won in France today! The EU will survive (though Brexit will take a toll). Our anti-Trump resistance should be strengthened, given the Russians trying to do the same thing in France.

"Fuck Trump, Putin, and LePen; they're toast!"

I'm not that wild about Kendall, the demi-Kardashian known for her celebrity. But here's one of her arriving at her own party last Monday -- http://ultradevi.tumblr.com/post/132523152982/runwayandbeauty-kendall-jenners-20th- ( Read more... )

So, in the preceding post, I shared with you lovely readers a bunch of pretty cool blog-names on Tumblr, and I said I was curious about who/what they ACTUALLY were. So I chose one that piqued my curiosity, and looked up "aleajactaesst.tumblr.com" (yes, there's an extra "s"...); here's a photo chosen by the blogger: Read more... )

THE FOLLOWING IS MOSTLY GIBBEREISH, FILTERED (BARELY) THROUGH MY BEDSIDE BLACKBERRY! ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT ON AWAKENING, BUT ( Read more... )