Perhaps the inviters are having as cranky, tired and out of sorts day as I am? (And my co-workers. . . can an entire office close down due to gronk?)

Drive by to say welcome to Weirdo Laga! Any stealthy orange ball hiding person is a friend in my book.

Hee. My sister just got "uninvited" from a wedding. Who does that?

People who can't afford chicken.

I love Shakespeare. a year ago I went to the stratford shakespeare festival in ontario and saw a lovely production of the tempest. Tempest is by far not one of my favorites, but it was still excellent. They also did a production of As You Like It that was cleverly staged in post-Vietnam America.

My favorite Shakespeare is Twelfth Night, for a multiple of reasons, not the least of which is being titillated by cross-dressing at the tender age of 13. I love the sonnets as well; I used to read them out loud in my room. My mother's MA was in Shakespeare; I inherited her single volume of Shakespeare plays and sonnets from her time in college, which I dearly cherish, for all the notes in the margins she made. My younger sister and I grew up with the simplified versions of Shakespeare's plays as our nighttime reading. The love I feel for his work cannot be reckoned in normal space.

Yeah, but Midsummer is all about sex. Like, if we can't talk about it, it doesn't really make much sense. I know that's often the starter, though.

Hee. My sister just got "uninvited" from a wedding. Who does that?

a) I think your sister wins

b) Tell us more

I saw a great Titus about 11 years ago that involved pumpkin slaughter and large amounts of stage blood. Kept me entertained.

S once worked on a production of Titus where every time a character was killed, they left the body onstage for the rest of the play. By the time the show was over, the stage would be piled with bodies.

Oh, this is rich. My sister is a violinist - bride was talking about how she had an organist but really wanted a violinist. So sis offers to play, free. All well and good.

Then they cancel the organist. Sis explains that a single violin isn't going to sound very good, that they need at least one more instrument. And she can get someone, but obviously that person would need to be paid.

Next she hears is that they "can't afford" to have her. Apparently they got all pissed and decided she was trying to bait and switch them or something (?!?). And not only is she not playing, but her ceremony/reception invitations are um, not so much anymore.

Which message was passed on to her by my sister's roommate, who is a bridesmaid. Who followed it up with "but you can still come as my guest."

And then it turns out that the guest thing was nixed too. Hysterical.

P-C, that's my favorite bit too, well that and Titus telling Tamora she just ate her asshole sons.

I once saw MacBeth Halloween night at the outside theater at our hometown college. It was this company Perfect and really, really scary. They brought in MacBeth's head wrapped in a fur. We were sitting on the stage and damn if it didn't look real (I think it was actually the actors head, but they'd rigged it so there was a hole in the fur for him to stick it through).

That bride is craxy. So your sister was clearly in cahoots with the organist and the other musician. It's a racket!

Dropping in for a re-introduction. Buffy (yes, really!) here. I had the pleasure of meeting some of you f2f or swinging from the treehouse.

waves. curtsies. etc.