Big week for celebrating silly holidays if you’re both a geek and a Shakespeare geek. Today is Pi Day. Get it? 3/14? Happy Pi Day, everybody! And tomorrow, of course, 3/15 is the Ides of March. Beware! I should have planned to use my two floating holidays at work back to back. I wonder if people would look at me funny? You know, funnier than they usually do. (One of my children was born on August 24, and it crosses my brain everytime her birthday comes up that August is the 8th month and 8 evenly divides 24. My oldest was born on 7/8, and my youngest was born on May 4, 2006. If we lived in a country that did the dd/mm/yyyy thing he could have a truly geek 4/5/6 birthday.)
Month: March 2007
Mental Shakespeare Floss
This is actually pleasing to me as a Shakespeare geek. Mental Floss posts an article entitled 14 Sentences About 14 Shakespeare Comedies, containing several little side comments like “you’ll need to know the comedies if you truly want to impress with your obscure knowledge” and “There now, feeling a little more like a genius already, aren’t we?” The problem is they made half a dozen or more mistakes in their summaries, and promptly got taken to task for it before I ever even got a chance to respond. Hooray for more Shakespeare geeks in the world!
Happy Anniversary, Romeo and Juliet?
According to many “this day in history” sites March 11, 1302 is Romeo and Juliet’s wedding anniversary.
It’s not. In the opening scenes Lady Capulet tells us that it is “a fortnight and odd days until Lammas-tide”, which puts the play’s timeline in July.
Cheerios Commercial
How do you know you’re a Shakespeare geek? Your ears perk up when the latest Cheerios commercial comes on, you know the one where the son compares his upcoming test on Shakespeare with his father’s upcoming cholesterol test? And you’re sitting there staring at the tv waiting for them to mention more about the Shakespeare. They don’t, and it is very disappointing. 🙂
Selling Shakespeare : A Puzzle
Ok, Dum Luks has a blog post up called “Selling Shakespeare” which contains a puzzle. There’s a graphic containing a couple of words and numbers that is supposed to represent the ad for a run of 5 Shakespeare plays. I have absolutely no idea to solve it. I want to say “Measure for Measure” in there since the numbers appear to be inch markings, but that’d be pretty close to a guess. Richard III? Henry VI? I don’t get it. Somebody go solve it and tell me the answer :).