March 27th, 2018 → 6:43 am
“Murder most foul.” – Hamlet
I don’t know why, but I was shocked to read about the murder of an 85 year old Holocaust survivor in France yesterday. To have survived the Holocaust, and all its barbarity, to then be stabbed 11 times and lit on fire in your old age? Wow. And some say anti-Semitism isn’t a concern. Just, wow.
Filed under: Blog & Stupid/Evil People
November 27th, 2016 → 6:08 am
“You are not worth the dust which the rude wind
Blows in your face.” – King Lear
I hadn’t posted an insult in awhile, and Shakespeare has so many good ones, too! This is said to a truly annoying/evil woman who thinks she’s “worth the whistling.”
Filed under: Blog & Stupid/Evil People
November 22nd, 2016 → 6:55 am
“Presume not that I am the thing I was;
For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,
That I have turn’d away my former self;
So will I those that kept me company.” – Henry IV, Part II
I just re-watched Henry IV Parts I and II, of the amazing Hollow Crown series. In this set of plays we watch the future Henry V go from being a brash, licentious, dissolute youth, to a king who renounces his former ways and his former lowlife companions to become a better person. The plays end with the newly crowned King Henry V stating that he is a changed man, a better man, and that he will put from him the delinquent acquaintances of his youth. Wouldn’t it be nice if Trump did the same thing? Now that he is President-Elect, disavow his former scandalous self and his former villainous friends and become a more honest person. I’m pretty sure it won’t happen, but, wouldn’t it be nice?
Filed under: Blog & Politics/Politicians & Stupid/Evil People
July 17th, 2016 → 9:45 am
“Over thy wounds now do I prophesy…
A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;
Domestic fury and fierce civil strife
Shall cumber all the parts of [Turkey];
Blood and destruction shall be so in use,
And dreadful objects so familiar,
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quartered with the hands of war,
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds;
And [Erdogan’s] spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.” – Julius Caesar
Hopefully recent events in Turkey won’t turn into all out civil war, but I do fear Erdogan, and his spirit for hot revenge.
Filed under: Blog & Politics/Politicians & Stupid/Evil People
July 8th, 2016 → 6:17 am
“This world’s a city full of straying streets,
And death’s the market-place where each one meets.” – Two Noble Kinsmen
A friend of mine wrote on Facebook yesterday: What is happening in this world? Mass shootings, police shootings, tales of hate and violence nearly every day now. And it seems like it’s in a particularly bad phase. What to do??
Filed under: Blog & Stupid/Evil People
April 12th, 2016 → 5:40 am
“You smell this business with a sense as cold
As is a dead man’s nose.” – Winter’s Tale
The quote above implies that those who hide money overseas don’t quite get how smelly that is. And I love how so many articles have been written lately explaining the various legitimate reasons for secret offshore bank accounts. *Sigh* It just stinks, admit it.
Filed under: Blog & Stupid/Evil People
February 16th, 2016 → 6:22 am
“Dead as a doornail.” – Henry VI, Part II
I think we’re all in a bit of shock over the announcement of Antonin Scalia’s death over the weekend. Shakespeare has many quotes about death (almost as many as he has about love), but I chose to use this one because it seemed so abrupt, succinct, and in your face. Much like Scalia himself.
Plus, I love putting up quotes of phrases we use today, but which so many people don’t even realize come from Shakespeare!
Filed under: Blog & Politics/Politicians & Stupid/Evil People
November 15th, 2015 → 12:54 pm
“Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.” – Romeo and Juliet
My thoughts are with the families of the victims…
Filed under: Blog & Other & Stupid/Evil People
January 17th, 2015 → 7:44 am
“Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.” – Henry IV, Part I
Why don’t we celebrate the heroes, such as Lassana Bathily, as much as we lionize the villains of our common tragedies?
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January 3rd, 2015 → 6:47 am
“Whip me, ye devils, …
Blow me about in winds, roast me in sulfur,
Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire!” – Othello
Wait, that’s exactly what I feel like after our latest trip with American Airlines. We went to Mexico over the holidays, but our luggage did not! Apparently over the six days of our trip our luggage went to Dallas, China, Singapore, and then finally on to Mexico where it arrived on the day of our departure. As we were checking in for our flight home an agent told us to wait and, voila, our long-lost, at that point feared never-seen-again luggage, suddenly appeared! I laughed with incredulity and the tears ran down my face, until the AA agent then asked for my credit card for the fee to check our bag in for the flight home. I realize travel is all about the adventure, but after this last one, bandied about, insulted, hung up upon with customer service, I really do feel as though I’ve been whipped, roasted in sulfur, and then washed in gulfs of liquid fire.
Filed under: Blog & Self/My Life & Stupid/Evil People