It seems churlish to complain about it, but one of the many things I'm not catching up on (dishes, hand laundry, work, doing my taxes) is...filmed or zoom theater. It's almost time for Red Bull Theatre's production of The Witch of Edmonton, an obscure Jacobean play, which I will probably skip because I just watched the first half of the Globe ( Read more... )

Teensy little Gauda Prime missing scene:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23983219

In retrospect, it now seems peculiar that Shakespeare wrote extensive scenes about masked characters in Much Ado and Love's Labours Lost, when Two Gentlemen of Corona was RIGHT THERE.

Man, instead of always winter and never Christmas, these days it's always Good Friday and never Easter isn't it?

From Northanger Abbey (Catherine is talking to Henry): "You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the ( Read more... )

THE SOCIAL DISTANCE: biopic about the billionaire developer of the Facemask app.

I guess the real Good Place was the people we stood six feet away from.

It dawned on me that when the Ghost appears in Gertrude's closet, he is wearing his nightshirt, suggesting that, like so many of us, he hasn't bothered to put on his Outside Clothes. (Actually, although Gertrude's closet is usually staged as her bedroom, so perhaps the Ghost was used to being there en deshabille, I've read that it should be more of ( Read more... )

LeVar Burton will be reading stories as a Twitter livestream--Fridays for adults, starting 4/3 with a Neil Gaiman story, and then kids' stories on Mondays and YA on Wednesdays: Leave a comment

Going back even further in classic literature to figure out how we got into this mess--well, obviously there is a long-standing connection between plagues and motherfuckers* but then I realized it isn't a good analogy because who could imagine Trump becoming King because there *was* a riddle he could solve ( Read more... )