And so now you think it’s too much effort to walk along the bottom of the ocean, or run on the cold north wind, or do work for me under the surface of the Earth when the ground is frozen solid. ARIEL I do not, sir. ARIEL I don’t, sir. PROSPERO Thou liest, malignant ...
(Update: I tried WordPress’s ‘verse’ format option, then mucked with the excerpts below until it looked right, only to discover it looks right only some fraction of the time, and runs off the page and is otherwise unreadable the rest of the time. Sigh.) The neurons are finally comi...
Normally, I tend to be very communal in terms of leadership and like things to evolve organically. That is not leader enough for my kids, they needed a ruler that say the yeses and the nos, firmly with no over-analysis. Which, let’s face it, does not come easily to me. Let’s n...
We all knew the close ofSuccessionwould be shocker upon shocker, but no one knew exactly how shocking its final season would turn out to be. From the worst wedding of all time to the worst Nordic clifftop business meeting of all time to the worst post-election night funeral of all time,...
We have yet to feel the full effects of the double strikes that shut down Hollywood for a good portion of this year, and whether it was because we were paying more attention to things or because it was an unusually good year, television felt especially robust in 2023. Across genres and ...
the sun set as its mirror image dressed in orange while the trees just below us were lit like polished copper. I don’t remember what I exclaimed, but my nine year old rolled her eyes and sighed, “I don’t get why grown ups always have to say how beautiful everything is.” The ...
the sun set as its mirror image dressed in orange while the trees just below us were lit like polished copper. I don’t remember what I exclaimed, but my nine year old rolled her eyes and sighed, “I don’t get why grown ups always have to say how beautiful everything is.” The ...
But "Days of Lantana"'s more than its oboe, its Agathas: like Kate Bush's "Hello Earth" or Mary Margaret O'Hara's "When You Know Why You're Happy," Ben Howard's song feels as sensitive as the palm of your hand. He's telling the story of a perfect day, telling it in tones...
Forgive me, Bassanio, because I slept with the lawyer for the ring. NERISSA 280 [taking out a ring] And pardon me, my gentle Gratiano, For that same scrubbèd boy, the doctor’s clerk,In lieu of this, last night did lie with me. NERISSA [She takes out a ring] And forgive me,...
notion of pushing us in with a splash and placing a flagstone over the top of the well. He piled earth over this then put in a plantain on top of it. So we have already been dead for three years, alas. We are the ghost of one who was wickedly murdered by being pushed down a ...