Let’s take a pause from obsessing about books and music and talk about quilting. This is definitely as crafty as this blog is ever going to get. Christmas is over, and I now get the chance to brag about my wife and the amazing presents she made. She decided sometime this summer to make quilts […]
I went to wordle.net and entered in the more than 27,000 words I’ve blogged so far this year. Here are the ones I used most often. (Far too many adverbs!)
Here’s what I listened to this year. My blogger pal Lindsay wrote a post about her favorite albums of the year, and now I want to do the same thing. My sample size is modest, as I didn’t listen to too many new records in 2012, but I would nevertheless like to share a few […]
What’s a hurlyburly? I will be teaching Macbeth, which I haven’t read in years, when my classes reconvene in January. Below are the first lines of the play–the chilling conversation among the witches that sets the scene and introduces the themes of MacBeth. Rereading these lines, I suddenly remembered the episode of The Cosby Show in […]
In 1964, the Beatles performed parts of Act V of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for British television. I had no idea. As my students were doing independent research on Shakespeare, one of them, Lily, told me that she had found the Beatles doing a version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Youtube. I was skeptical, as […]
Here’s what I read and did in November. My wife, Renee, directed the girls’ play at the Hebrew Academy this November. It was a theatrical version of one of the creepiest Twilight Zone episodes of them all, “The After Hours,” which features a most unusual elevator ride and lots of mannequins. The show also had […]