They call me Thomas / Last name Crown
I've booked tickets for Doug Stanhope tonight (since I don't like comedy, someone whose act consists in being rude and shocking would be good) and Terry Saunders' Pulp Boy tomorrow at the Fringe. Culture, of sorts.
So far the only Edinburgh fringe/festival thing I've seen was Luke Haines.
There's also lots of plays about messed-up middle America at the Traverse, which makes a change from their usual plays about messed-up central Scotland.
I still can't decide if I should go see Troilus and Cressida this weekend. It is perhaps my favourite Shakespeare play, dating from the same "All women are evil" period in his career as Hamlet; of course I'm not normally a believer in that sentiment, but it's fun to see the world's greatest playwright going completely insane for a couple of years. Plus, T and C manages to combine two of the great epic stories of classical/medieval literature (Troilus and Cressida and the Iliad) and turn them into a stupid brutal farce. But reviews suggest it's more of the stately parades of Greek heroes and less of the sneering comedy.
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While I applaud the recent decision to reclassify the messily orbitting captured rock Pluto as no longer a planet, it's a little harsh to call it a "dwarf planet": surely "bijou planet" or "pied a Oort cloud" would be more appropriate? We need a committee of estate agents.
So far the only Edinburgh fringe/festival thing I've seen was Luke Haines.
There's also lots of plays about messed-up middle America at the Traverse, which makes a change from their usual plays about messed-up central Scotland.
I still can't decide if I should go see Troilus and Cressida this weekend. It is perhaps my favourite Shakespeare play, dating from the same "All women are evil" period in his career as Hamlet; of course I'm not normally a believer in that sentiment, but it's fun to see the world's greatest playwright going completely insane for a couple of years. Plus, T and C manages to combine two of the great epic stories of classical/medieval literature (Troilus and Cressida and the Iliad) and turn them into a stupid brutal farce. But reviews suggest it's more of the stately parades of Greek heroes and less of the sneering comedy.
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While I applaud the recent decision to reclassify the messily orbitting captured rock Pluto as no longer a planet, it's a little harsh to call it a "dwarf planet": surely "bijou planet" or "pied a Oort cloud" would be more appropriate? We need a committee of estate agents.