rantings & ramblings
I looked back at when I last posted and realized things have been up and down both mentally and physically over the last few weeks, which is probably why I thought it was only a week, maybe ten days at most since I wrote anything, only to log in and see it’s been almost twenty days. But don’t worry; I have a plan.
Continue reading “April Showers?”
Today is Gratitude Day. What are you grateful for? I’ll start with three Ps:
Pizza
Pusheen
Pratchett, Terry
It’s the first full weekend in September and our production of Twelfth Night has wrapped and the stage is struck and I promised I would be back to my normal posting schedule and so here we are. It’s a rainy September weekend and I have a summer/fall crossover simmer pot on the stove and I’m catching up on podcasts while I type – it’s about time to break out the fireplace DVDs for ambiance – and it feels good to be back while also feeling a tad overwhelming after being gone for so long.
Continue reading “Sunday with Billy Shakes’ Pear”
It’s cheese pizza day, so grab a pie and enjoy dinner and a show all from the comfort of your own home – that’s right: a full performance of Twelfth Night is available for free online!
It’s Frankenstein Day, commemorating Mary Shelley’s birthday and the publication of her novel “Frankenstein”; written when Mary Shelley had it up to here with men (looking at you, Byron and Percy Shelley) and invented a new genre of literature (suck it, misogynists). Look inside and embrace the monster within — after all, we’re all a bit of a patchwork!
Today is International Orangutan Day. Terry Pratchett once observed that “in all the worlds graced by their presence, it is suspected that they can talk but choose not to do so in case humans put them to work, possibly in the television industry.”
Asked for comment, one orangutan said simply “OOK”.
Running In My Head 