September 27th, 2014 → 5:34 am
“Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.” – King Lear
If you’re wondering where the last couple of posts went, they disappeared! Literally! We’re in the process of changing hosting services for this website and, well, things got a bit messed up this week. Hold tight till we know the new server is up and running correctly…
Filed under: Blog & Self/My Life
September 19th, 2014 → 5:30 am
“Lend Me Your Ears – Messages from the British Detainee John Cantlie.”
This was the title of a video released by ISIS on YouTube yesterday. Let me add more from the famous Lend Me Your Ears speech in Julius Caesar:
Filed under: Blog & Stupid/Evil People
September 17th, 2014 → 5:46 am
“I found him under a tree like a dropped acorn.” – As You Like It
I keep reading reports, posted alongside gruesome photos, of people dying in the streets, outside of hospitals, under trees and beside rivers where the Ebola virus struck them down or family members abandoned them for fear of catching the disease themselves. It is ghastly.
September 14th, 2014 → 5:53 am
“You are as a candle, the better part burnt out.” – Henry IV, Part II
Apparently the age-old Shakespeare denier conspiracy theorists are at it again. This time a bunch of scholarly professors, battling out whether the theory is worth an academic publication or not. I can tell you that I did do a bit of research on this myself a number of years ago, and I found it all bunk. No one wrote Shakespeare but Shakespeare.
Filed under: Blog & Literature/Theatre/Art & Stupid/Evil People
September 12th, 2014 → 5:52 am
“I don’t take sides. At the end of the day, whoever gets cut, they’re going to bleed red.” – Chamaya Johnson
I read this quote from a Ferguson, MO mother the other day and I was struck by how much it echoed Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice: “If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?” We are all human. We are all in this together. Amen.
September 10th, 2014 → 6:54 am
“Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.” – All’s Well That Ends Well
Two girlfriends of mine just announced their engagements this week. How exciting!
September 7th, 2014 → 5:41 am
“Study is like the heaven’s glorious sun.” – Love’s Labor’s Lost
We’re three weeks into the fall semester and homeworks are being turned in, essay written, exams stressed over. All you students with slumped shoulders and drawn-out gait, remember, that study is like heaven’s glorious sun – as it brings knowledge, light, certainty, and understanding. What could be better?
September 4th, 2014 → 6:08 am
Bernie Madoff‘s second son, Andrew, died yesterday. His first son committed suicide two years to the day of his father’s conviction. Andrew died of cancer, but he has said the cancer came because of the stress of his father’s actions. I don’t know if the sons are also guilty (they always claimed innocence), but their death is certainly tragic. The entire Madoff arc is tragic. One big, enormous, heartbreaking tragedy.
Filed under: Blog & Other & Stupid/Evil People
September 1st, 2014 → 6:04 am
We should all be so lucky…
(Note: “harm” here means the burdens of life.)