Sorry I missed the first couple of days of this week. I’m finally learning what it’s like to take work home over the weekends. And can you believe it’s already December?!
Tuesday, December 2
4:00pm / 3:00pm – IFC – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Or, Tom Stoppard turns Shakespeare on its ear and comes up with a [...]
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I’m not quite finished with the December reading/watching recap, but since publishing “best of” lists is the thing to do at the end of the year, I figured I could go ahead and do that. And by “best of 2006″ I mean “best that I saw or read in 2006,” because, as usual, I [...]
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Two…count ‘em, TWO…movies this month. How freakin’ pathetic is that? And one of them was because I was writing about it for class. Oh well, there are twelve books. That’s right. More than I’ve ever read in a month before, ever. Well, yes, all of them were for school. [...]
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Tagged:Aspects of the Novel, Brian Friel, Casino Royale, Deirdre Madden, E.M. Forster, Excalibur, James Bond, King Arthur, One by One in the Darkness, Richard Russo, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Samuel Beckett, Straight Man, Tom Stoppard, Translations, Waiting for Godot