I was on the exercise bike at the gym and the TV screen had a subtitle: "Will the Bills make the playoffs?" and I thought, they won't as long as McConnell is in the way.

Get it right, guys...it's not Drumpf drawing with a Sharpie on a Hurricane Dorian map, it was last year when he tried to draw on a Hurricane Matthew map...with a SharPei. And it bit him, so he launched a trade war with China.

PROROGUE ONE: They all die.

Trump has just announced that he is setting up a branch of the military called Space Command. I can hardly wait for it to announce that it no longer recognizes the authority of the President.

A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA: Polixenes hires Sherlock Holmes to find out about that "shepherdess" in the cabinet photo that his son is mixed up with.

A comfort re-read of Elizabeth Schafer's "Ms-Directing Shakespeare? Women Direct Shakespeare" mentions a production of Taming of the Shrew that built on Petruchio's throw-away line "Why do they say that Kate doth limp?" by giving her an orthopedic shoe. (Taming of the ( Read more... )

I think I speak for many of my fellow citizens of Jersey City, and indeed the entire NY Metro Area, not to mention California, both Portlands, and the part of Washington DC not inhabited by elected officials. We're ready to take one for the team and be traded to Denmark in exchange for Greenland and A Player to Be Named. I mean, I ate those butter ( Read more... )

I actually finished something, partly because I feel honor-bound to defend the cause of bizarre crossovers by doing each round of Intoabar. Hence, "Life on Marx," https://archiveofourown.org/works/20213155 a title I am delighted with, although I didn't think of it until the ( Read more... )

If Shakespeare had kept Cinthio's original murder method--dropping part of the ceiling on Desdemona to make it look like an accident--then it would be the Marry, Tile Her, Moor Show ( Read more... )

It occurred to me today that the words, words, words Hamlet reads in the lobby is probably the latest edition of Time Out of Joint.