January 22nd, 2012 → 10:58 am
“Be bloody, bold, and resolute!” – Macbeth
And ruthless, condescending, and petty, I might add. Look out, here comes Newt…
Filed under: Blog & Politics/Politicians & Stupid/Evil People
January 20th, 2012 → 5:46 am
“Whiles I am a beggar, I will rail
And say there is no sin but to be rich;
And being rich, my virtue then shall be
To say there is no vice but beggary.” – King John
Why must it ever be so?
Filed under: Blog & Economics/Money
January 18th, 2012 → 4:44 am
“And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel,
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.” – As You Like It
School starts again this week at colleges and universities across the country. When I was a student I didn’t creep to class so unwillingly as Shakespeare describes here, but then again, I was sorta geeky. That’s probably why I became a professor, after all. Happy first week of classes everyone!
Filed under: Blog & Self/My Life
January 16th, 2012 → 7:14 am
“Ay, every inch a king.” – King Lear
Happy Martin Luther King Day.
January 14th, 2012 → 2:50 pm
So I just watched the Swedish version of the movie The Girl With the Dragoon Tattoo (I still haven’t seen the U.S. version). And I thought it was quite good! I even liked the changes they made, like having the run-in with the boys in the subway station, and how that showed early on that she was a fighter. I’m pretty sure this Lisbeth wasn’t under 5′ either, but whatever, I’ll just have to get over that. Verdict: Thumbs up for the Swedish version of The Girl With the Dragoon Tattoo.
Filed under: Blog & Literature/Theatre/Art
January 14th, 2012 → 7:00 am
“Cold snow melts with the sun’s hot beams.” – Henry VI, Part II
I know it’s been crazy in Alaska with snowfall topping 318 inches in some areas (!), but here in St. Louis we’ve barely had any winter at all. There is a tiny skiff of snow out there right now, but I hear that’s going to burn off this weekend with temperatures getting into the fifties on Sunday! In the middle of January! What is going on?!?
January 12th, 2012 → 6:41 am
“The patient dies while the physician sleeps;
The orphan pines while the oppressor feeds;
Justice is feasting while the widow weeps;
Advice is sporting while infection breeds.” – The Rape of Lucrece
The people of North Korea – the sick, the orphaned, the widowed – deserve more. There really isn’t much more to add.
Filed under: Blog & Politics/Politicians & Stupid/Evil People
January 10th, 2012 → 8:42 am
“[He] speaks an infinite deal of nothing.” – The Merchant of Venice
There are so many Republican presidential debates this election year! And none of the candidates seem to say anything new or interesting…
Filed under: Blog & Politics/Politicians
January 8th, 2012 → 6:42 am
“The king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make when all those legs and arms and heads chopped off in a battle shall join together at the latter day and cry all ‘We died at such a place.'” – Henry V
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad continues to kill his people. The siege of Hama last July was the worst, in part because of the historical symbolism of the place, but these latest protests and deaths are pretty bad too because they indicate that Assad just isn’t getting the message. It is time for him to go!
Filed under: Blog & Politics/Politicians & Stupid/Evil People
January 6th, 2012 → 6:26 am
I was recently told that the 1965 film by Orson Welles Chimes at Midnight is a MUST SEE Shakespeare film. I had never even heard of it before! I found short clips of it on YouTube, but the entire film appears to be unavailable anywhere in the United States. Anybody out there know anything about it??
Filed under: Blog & Literature/Theatre/Art