Coworker this morning tells me, “Hey, saw a Shakespeare book over the weekend, thought of you.” “Which one?” I ask.  “I probably know it.” “It was called Coffee with Shakespeare.” “I don’t know that one.” “It was this tiny little thing, looked like the idea was that the author goes back in time and has coffee with Shakespeare.  It was part of a series, there was a whole bunch of them.” “Coffee with Descartes, Coffee with Mark Twain, and so on?” “Yeah.  Seemed cheesy.”   I go hunting around anyway.  Turns out this particular “cheesy” book is edited by Stanley Wells, one of the foremost Shakespeare authorities in the business today.  It’s also got a forward by Joseph Fiennes, the guy who played Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love. I relay this information to my coworker, who responds, “Yeah, that’s the one. It was the forward by Fiennes that made me not pick it up.”

http://blog.willentrekin.com/2008/09/21/things-making-me-crankly-lately/ From a blog called “Will In The World”, some Shakespeare love where you may not have first expected it.

“Daddy, that’s the Shakespeare book that Santa gave me.  He knows I can read it myself.  If music…be….the food of…love…….”     “Play on…” “I know, Daddy.  I was thinking the words in my head, and trying to figure out if that makes any sense.”   My daughter is 6.

http://twilightstarsong.blogspot.com/2008/09/kenneth-branagh-and-hamlet.html Ever found yourself with an interest in Kenneth Branagh’s astrological chart? Here you go.

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j164/Huxley71/blog2/2008-07-25-necro.gif No, really. 🙂  We won’t pick on the fact that he’s buried inside the church, not out in a yard someplace. 🙂