it's not realistic but one expects perfection in certain arenas and jeopardy clues are one of those ( Read more... )

we're looking for our new place in pittsburgh. one house for rent is on ophelia street.
was taking a look at its surrounds on maps when lo and behold i saw that it crossed hamlet street. a quick google doesn't turn up the story of who had the privilege of naming the streets but it does turn up someone who's photographed itnot far away are romeo and ( Read more... )

i'm closing tabs, so, even though i haven't written my entry about how everything's hamlet for me, i note that i completely by chance recently stumbled upon this remarkable painting of hamlet and ophelia by mikhail vrubel. i'd only first heard of vrubel a couple years back when i came upon another of his paintings by chance and shared it here.

everyone's talking about their clusters. i'm on #5, hambone, which must have something to do with the literary magazine founded by nathaniel mackey (b. 1947) or perhaps blues musician hambone willie newbern (a hot-tempered man who eventually was beaten to death in a prison brawl in1947) or more likely the definition 'a greenhorn or amateur among ( Read more... )

we had an irish lunch today with my friend mike and his wife kz. the overly loud speakers at the restaurant played billy ocean's get out of my dreams (1988) and i asked c. if she could name the artist. she couldn't and mike offered, half-jokingly: "it's one of those billys, ocean or joel, they sound the same." the very next song to come on was ( Read more... )

my cocktail du jour from the other night approximated a shamrock shaken not stirred:

alexander's sister1 oz gin (i used bombay sapphire ( Read more... )

in your public life...
words that embody your presence are "constellation".

words that embody things that may be a part of you are "bikini, breath, blues, chess, dragon, engine, escapade, fame, fanatic, finger, fist, gem, island, joker, lace, love, rook, oracle, pawn, peacock, petal, scandal, scream, sea, shackle, slave, sun, tiger, trek, voice ( Read more... )

so, um, maybe this only works with polls.
at least with me, anyway. so here goes.

there are a variety of tacks a love letter might take, and a diverse collection of possible content which might appear in a love letter, no? (my examples would be the love letters from love's labour's lost and merry wives of windsor (beneath the cut), or sonnet xviii ( Read more... )

Poll cruel kindness