What about semi-star-bellied pseudo-sneetches?

You mean sneetches that swing both ways? Disgusting! They spread star-belliedness to the non-star-bellied community! Or the other way around!

What if you PAINT a star on your belly - is that drag?

It depends if it's just a thing done once in a while or if it's a 24/7 lifestyle thing.

Boy, you know what's more fun than Newark when pretty much every single flight is delayed or canceled?

Everything. Everything is more fun.

The Fleet Week fleet? Doing another pass - CLOSER.

I can count the sailors on deck. The whole office has basically shut down to watch them slooooooowly sail by.

ETA: it's funny watching Seattle police boats - and Navy patrol Zodiacs - racing around intercepting private vessels that are getting too close. ZOOM - STOP! See? That's a BIG GUN pointed at you. Thanks! ZOOM

Dana, that sounds like a nightmare. I hope at least the trip was great!

Sorry about the airport Dana.

I've been listening the Maddow show podcasts. This whole C-Street Family business is making my skeptic senses tingle. It seems a bit too over the top to be really what it's portrayed as.

Dana, I wish you a better

Boy, you know what's more fun than Newark when pretty much every single flight is delayed or canceled?

Everything. Everything is more fun.

Terminal A has good stuff and Terminal C sucks. Or possibly the other way around. If you're in one and it sucks, go to the other. Continental has a shuttle bus between the two so you don't have to go through security again. And again.

So sorry about the airport, Dana.

No. I meant plain-bellied sneetches and star-bellied sneetches.

Sneetches are on my mind, b/c the restaurant (IN THE CASTRO o/) I just got hired at is named Starbelly. Sadly, not because of Sneetches, but I still want a Sneetch shirt.

ZOOM - STOP! See? That's a BIG GUN pointed at you. Thanks! ZOOM

Snerk.

Things I bought at Target:

Tomato plants

pepper plants

parsley plants

new under garments

cleaning supplies

things I could not buy:

Steel wool

Metal Shakespeare Company to visit Boulder next week

Currently on a six-state tour MSC, which plays heavy metal using lyrics taken from Shakespeare, is bringing its "bardcore" act to Boulder Wednesday for a free concert sponsored by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. It won't be the first time the headbangers have tried to make theatergoers' ears bleed. They played a set at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival last year.

"It was much to our pleasure well received," Simms says. "From young schoolchildren clad in their matching clothes, to silver-haired elders we were applauded. Our tunics and magical discs were purchased in massive numbers."

(It was a good gig. Even the old folks liked them. They sold a lot of t-shirts and CDs.)

One MSC song, "To Bleed or Not to Bleed," enacts the gravedigger's scene from "Hamlet." Other titles -- "The Caliban Stomp" or "The Ballad of Isabella" -- reflect popular Shakespeare characters.

Then there's "The Drunken Porter," about a character in "Macbeth." Simms calls it "Shakespeare's five-minute homage to alcohol."

"It hath within it, much humor, despite its tragic events," Simms said. "From our perspective, one of his funniest moments in any play. For the comedies are not so, as they say, 'ha ha' funny."

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If you haven't sensed it yet, MSC takes some of its influence from Iron Maiden, and maybe some from Spinal Tap. But don't suggest MSC's music is a spoof, just because they play it wearing tights.

"I shall not stoop to think thou might impugn the solemn dignity of our musical ouvre by questioning its integrity nor our commitment to it!" Viceroy Matthew said.

To be fair, the interviewer had a choice to interview them "in character" or not - he chose "in character."