Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespeare scholar extraordinaire, on Much Ado About Nothing:

Marriage is a social conspiracy.

My suspicions are confirmed!

There is laundry and mending to do today. I feel a bit like Cinderella.

**Where are my singing, dancing animals?!?!**

Shakespeare Santa Cruz needs your help.

They are trying to raise $300,000 before Dec. 22nd, or they will have to close for good. Donate money, subscribe, tell your friends. Our industry can't afford to keep losing companies.

first sign of the apocalypse:

Gmail starts f***ing up.

I just realized the closeness of christmas and that maybe I need to do some shopping. yikes.

the BBC World news feed on my dashboard urges me to "Be Patient..." while it connects.

Good advice for life, I suppose.

It's just like Elizabethan England, except with gay rights.

The other day I had a dream about a HERD of BEARS attacking me and everyone I know. I think for some reason we all had to live in their habitat at close quarters. and maybe sacrifice foodstuffs to them.

It might have been caused by this comic.

I'm reading a collection of Eric Bentley's reviews and columns from 1953-4. He's sensational and sometimes annoying, but mostly he has a good head on his shoulders and isn't afraid to say what he thinks. He writes an incredible slam.

One of the chapters starts like this:

The management of John Brown's Body said there were no available seats at ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I took the air-conditioning unit out of my window. This was harder and funnier than it sounds. Some previous, unknown tenant had put it in ( Read more... )