I'm spending some enjoyable time sampling the pleasures of this CD, which arrived from Amazon yesterday. It's some of Shakespeare's sonnets, read by wonderful British Actors. Some of them are put to music, too, but I haven't tried any of those yet. There are some treats: Ralph Fiennes, reading "Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame" as if in ( Read more... )

For movie fans: news of a fascinating new documentary, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema. You can read about it and listen to excerpts at Open Source

I'm not entirely sure why you'd want to, but for those with too much time on their hands you can Shake up a Sonnet by rearranging lines from all Shakespeare's sonnets.

The latest in the lolcat craze: ( Read more... )