A palate-cleanser
1. I've decided that New York needs an indoor water slide park.
2. My playwright's note for the Thyme of the Season program:
When ceebeegee came to me with the idea of a sequel to Midsummer, we'd intended to do it first as part of one of Spotlight On Production's Halloween Theatre Festivals. Sadly, by the time the play was finished, there wasn't an annual festival anymore. So this is dedicated to Frank and Steve of Spotlight On; also to the 2006 cast of Holla Holla's Midsummer without whom this would have been very different; and finally to those writers who have inspired me along the way- Nat Colley (The Doctor of Rome, his sequel to The Merchant of Venice), Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies), Pamela Dean (Tam-Lin), and Sheri S. Tepper (Beauty).
3. The following is thanks to rjwhite, who posted this article about a Russian version of Married With Children in his journal...
Adaptations of two other shows, “Who’s the Boss?” and “The Nanny,” are also popular here.
All three programs are distributed by Sony Pictures Television International, which has created versions of them and other American programs around the world, often in partnership with local producers.“The Nanny,” which was first broadcast here in 2004, was such a hit that after running out of episodes to copy, some of the show’s original American writers were commissioned to create 25 more episodes, said Ron Sato, a Sony spokesman.
New episodes of The Nanny? AWESOME
4. defy_gravity99 gave me Ilium to read. I'm only about 50 pages in, but I'm diggin' it. The Trojan war being re-staged on Mars, an interesting take on Shakespeare's sonnet 116 (ha!), and what are, I think, some allusions to Nabokov (a girl named Ada, cousin incest, and lepidoptery).
5. "You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children." - Madeline L'Engle.
RIP, Madeline.
2. My playwright's note for the Thyme of the Season program:
When ceebeegee came to me with the idea of a sequel to Midsummer, we'd intended to do it first as part of one of Spotlight On Production's Halloween Theatre Festivals. Sadly, by the time the play was finished, there wasn't an annual festival anymore. So this is dedicated to Frank and Steve of Spotlight On; also to the 2006 cast of Holla Holla's Midsummer without whom this would have been very different; and finally to those writers who have inspired me along the way- Nat Colley (The Doctor of Rome, his sequel to The Merchant of Venice), Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies), Pamela Dean (Tam-Lin), and Sheri S. Tepper (Beauty).
3. The following is thanks to rjwhite, who posted this article about a Russian version of Married With Children in his journal...
Adaptations of two other shows, “Who’s the Boss?” and “The Nanny,” are also popular here.
All three programs are distributed by Sony Pictures Television International, which has created versions of them and other American programs around the world, often in partnership with local producers.“The Nanny,” which was first broadcast here in 2004, was such a hit that after running out of episodes to copy, some of the show’s original American writers were commissioned to create 25 more episodes, said Ron Sato, a Sony spokesman.
New episodes of The Nanny? AWESOME
4. defy_gravity99 gave me Ilium to read. I'm only about 50 pages in, but I'm diggin' it. The Trojan war being re-staged on Mars, an interesting take on Shakespeare's sonnet 116 (ha!), and what are, I think, some allusions to Nabokov (a girl named Ada, cousin incest, and lepidoptery).
5. "You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children." - Madeline L'Engle.
RIP, Madeline.