Shakespearean Daily Diss
“The miserable have no medicine but only hope.” –Measure For Measure, 3.1
Blood & Roses, Session 6
Another great Dungeons & Dragons game tonight. The underground assault on the winery of Monsigneur Montalba went off without a hitch, at first. The underground passageway was just where Justiciar Richard Valencourt expected it to be, and it was not filled with terrible subterranean creatures or traps. The magic mouth alarm proved highly inconvenient, but [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Was ever woman in this humour woo’d?” –King Richard III 1.2.227
Shakespearean Semiannual Bliss
Got Lynne and some of her RWA cohorts to take a night off from their convention to see The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) at our beloved Shakespeare Tavern downtown. Fine work by two of our favorite local actors, Tony Brown and Jeff McKerley, and by a new addition to that list, Paul [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Words without thoughts never to heaven go.” –Hamlet, 3.3.103
“Not Family-Friendly”
How refreshing! A survey comes out in which citizens complain that their country is “not family-friendly,” and the phrase isn’t some bigoted code for “not discriminatory against gays”:
Of the 3,000 parents with children younger than five who were surveyed by Mother and Baby magazine and parenting website Mothercare, 96 percent said days out were [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Both like serpents are, who, though they feed on sweetest flowers, yet they poison breed .” –Pericles, 1.1.127-28
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“To see this age! A sentence is
but a cheveril glove to a good wit: how quickly the
wrong side may be turned outward!” –Twelfth Night, 3.1.12-14
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Pray you stand farther from me.” –Antony And Cleopatra, 1.3.18
Gratuitous Video Feed
Watch Monty Python’s John Cleese break new ground at the 1989 memorial service for colleague Graham Chapman. Eric Idle closes with a singalong.
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