That looks like fun!
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
sumi - Mar 10, 2010 4:14:44 am PST #11110 of 28503
Art Crawl!!!
Katerina Bee - Mar 11, 2010 2:18:42 pm PST #11111 of 28503
Herding cats for fun
Oh, and Moonlighting did a Shrew parody. In which Bruce Willis sang and played the harmonica. @@
I gotta remember to look up a copy of that episode; I was such a fan when this aired.
I have a book built around Shakespeare called This Body. It started with a dying junkie whose body was suddenly inhabited by someone really into the modern play-going Shakespeare scene. It was a nice take on "now I get to start over in this nice young healthy body and forget all my dreary responsibility." I quite liked it.
shrift - Mar 13, 2010 6:27:44 pm PST #11112 of 28503
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I've read Robert B. Parker's Appaloosa, Resolution, and I'm in the middle of Brimstone. Do any of his other novels have a similar dynamic to the laconic life partners Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch?
Even if they don't, I'd welcome recommendations from the rest of his oeuvre.
Scrappy - Mar 14, 2010 2:39:34 pm PDT #11113 of 28503
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Oh, and Moonlighting did a Shrew parody. In which Bruce Willis sang and played the harmonica.
Loved that. "Until we meet again, sometime in Act Five."
Maysa - Mar 14, 2010 8:23:21 pm PDT #11114 of 28503
Have any of you guys seen the BBC's Shakespeare Retold series they did a few years ago? There was a very cute version of Taming of the Shrew with Shirley Henderson (one of my favorites) and Rufus Sewell (always hot).
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Mar 15, 2010 1:45:56 am PDT #11115 of 28503
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
The BBC series was excellent. I used their updated Much Ado with my students who were studying the play.
Dana - Mar 15, 2010 3:38:00 am PDT #11116 of 28503
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Much Ado is my favorite. Damian Lewis! Sarah Parrish!
§ ita § - Mar 15, 2010 3:50:50 am PDT #11117 of 28503
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Much Ado was great. I especially loved Damian Lewis at the start.
Tom Scola - Mar 15, 2010 10:08:08 am PDT #11118 of 28503
hwæt
A literary detective who claims to have found evidence of a ‘lost play’ by William Shakespeare has won the backing of the acclaimed Shakespeare publishers, Arden, with the publication of his new book, Double Falsehood, or the Distressed Lovers.
Gudanov - Mar 22, 2010 7:52:06 am PDT #11119 of 28503
Coding and Sleeping
I finished another audiobook on my commute. This one was 'Killing Floor' by Lee Child. It held my interest and I thought the writing was good enough, though I thought more could be chopped out. There were a couple of scenes I just couldn't buy. There were also a couple of improbable coincidences that would have been cool if they weren't really coincidences, but they were. Overall, a good enough read, but I'm not going to rush out (well get online) to the Library to get another one of his books. It did make me think I need to check if there are any Rex Stout audiobooks available I haven't already listened to.
My new audiobook from the library is 'Dragonspell' by somebody. It's classified as YA and the beginning is making me think it might be too Y for my taste. The Golden Compass was YA and I liked it a lot, but it was more on the A side.