::Great Sites::
Recent Content Quake Posts
- New Home for LittleMissKnowitAll - Posted to Little Miss Know It All
- Aspera ad astra. - Posted to Just Write
- Word of the Week: February 20th, 2010. - Posted to Just Write
- Word Of The Week: February 13th, 2010. - Posted to Just Write
- The Librarian In Winter. - Posted to Just Write
Subscribe through Feedburner
Archives
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
Categories
|
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
 |
In L. Frank Baum’s book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz the land Oz was a real place. In fact in one of the later books Dorothy returns to Oz with her aunt and uncle, fleeing the hardship of Kansas. There’s no place like home, but home is also where you make it. Being a real place [...]
The Nashville Shakespeare Festival is putting on The Taming of The Shrew this year for their 22nd annual Shakespeare In The Park. Now, I’ll go ahead and say there are spoilers here, although the play’s title itself is pretty much a spoiler. If you don’t know Katherina gets tamed in the end you either haven’t [...]
It seems strange that there’s never been a stage adaptation, that I know of, of the epic of Gilgamesh. I’ve written about Gilgamesh before and included a list of all the versions I knew of as well as various cultural references. The real Gilgamesh was a Sumerian, and the Sumerians began the legends which were [...]
I love slang dictionaries, but I have yet to find a slang thesaurus. Maybe they’d just be too complicated. I imagine synonyms for “vomit†alone could form a small book. There’s puke, purge, spew, throw up, hurl, toss your lunch, toss your cookies, ralph, call Ralph on the porcelain phone, drive the porcelain bus, blow [...]
I can finally provide some of the promised video of the special storytelling event at the Vanderbilt University Library on October 30th. Storyteller Boone Westfall told some very funny and some very chilling stories. I acted as photographer and videographer for the event. And here I am reading Tim Burton’s poem Vincent, which was done [...]
For a long time whenever I’d hear someone say they were afraid of or even just a little unnerved by clowns, I’d think, “Why? What’s so scary about clowns?†There’s even a specific phobia, coulrophobia, that’s fear of clowns. Well, when clowns get naked, that’s definitely a scary thing. A group of clowns, recent graduates [...]
It’s not been a great week. Sometimes there’s nothing for it but a little unrepentant silliness, with a dash of hope thrown in. With that in mind, enjoy this clip. And if you don’t like it, please don’t fetchez le vache. Merci.
There’s a saying in show business, “Never work with children or animals”. The obvious reason is that, given their cuteness, children and animals will upstage almost any actor. The less obvious reason for not working with children, though, might be their parents. You know the type: excessively controlling, overprotective, and convinced their children aren’t just [...]
He’s almost entirely forgotten in spite of the fact that his song Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh, or some variation of it, can usually be heard at least once a day in commercials or even on the radio. Allan Sherman’s tune, apparently inspired by his own son’s real hatred of summer camp, has outlived and outgrown the funny, [...]
I distinctly remember the first time I heard this odd-looking gray-haired guy speak. He had a rough, gravelly voice, and he was talking about his Rice Krispies saying, “Snap, crackle, f–k him!” And I thought I would never stop laughing. I don’t remember how old I was exactly–eleven or twelve, but it didn’t matter. I [...] |
|
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Copyright © 2007 Just Write • Powered by WordPress • Driven by the internet domain registration services of Loud Sign. Google Shadow
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
