The Boss sent me this site about Curious George W. Check it out.

Got sidetracked again last night and didn't get the photos scanned like I promised. I did, however, finish wrapping the gifts and have them boxed up to take to the post office today. I'll carve some time out tomorrow to scan, after finishing the Christmas cards. I don't plan on being able to do anything productive tonight. There's a party for a friend who defends her PhD dissertation today, so I'll be going to that.

Last night I was having a pizza craving, so we ended up going to Emilio's for a sausage and mushroom pizza, then we went to the Honolulu Academy of Arts theater to see Branagh's "Love's Labours Lost." I have to say that it is one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. That's not saying that it was a bad movie, because it wasn't, but it was endearingly odd. It is a Shakespearean comedy produced as a mid-20th-century musical, complete with contemporary song (Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, etc.) and dance, but it maintains the original language in between the song and dance. Alicia Silverstone spouting Shakespearean English is something to see, especially if "Clueless" is what immediately comes to mind when you think of her.

My junior high speech teacher is the one who introduced me to Shakespeare. We spent a couple of weeks working our way through A Midsummer Night's Dream, reading along in class to a record of the play. (You young 'uns know what records are, don't you?) It was a great way to read Shakespeare, because you can hear the rhythm of the language and not get too bogged down in the intricacies of the language. Mr. Stanton informally gave out parts, so that we could associate our classmates with the characters. I don't think I ended up being assigned a part; if I did, I don't remember. It would be fun to get my hands on some of those recordings in CD form, and work through more of the plays. I admit to being intimidated by straight reading of Shakespeare, and I have yet to come across a live production of a Shakespeare play out here.
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