Ok, this is different. This morning in my Google news I saw a reference to the Canadian band Lowest of the Low whose album “Shakespeare My Butt” is ranked #10 in Top 100 Candian Albums of All Time. Not bad when you consider that Neil Young is on there at #7.
But then, upon googling for more references, I found
Shakespeare My Butt!: From ‘Marsupial Elvis’ to ‘No Place’… on the Trail of the Pointless Quest by John Donoghue which appears to be a completely unrelated book project.

Weird.

There’s really nothing about Shakespeare in this article, other than the first sentence. But I just couldn’t resist a story that starts with the classic “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio….” and then goes on to discuss what to do with the turkey leftovers.

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Tis the season, as they say, and I don’t have any time for political correctness. So let’s just assume that you’re going to soon celebrate some holiday that is traditionally a gift-giving occasion. Is there “Shakespeare stuff” on your list? Like what? Last year I got three books about Shakespeare — Garber, Greenblatt and Bloom. I’m still working my way through them :), so no books for me. Movies? Other geeky gadgety stuff? I have a bust of Shakespeare on my bookshelf.
So what other sort of Shakespeare stuff have you got, or do you want?

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The Herald has this article that appears to be about Shakespeare, but I’ll be darned if I can figure out what the heck the man is talking about. Although it starts with a discussion about analyzing Shakespeare, it actually appears to be a review of three different BBC television shows – none of which appear to have been about him. Maybe the first one, but I have no idea. Who is William Boyd? Who is Rupert Graves?

Anybody want to translate for me?

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While trying to hunt down a different project called “Shakespeare’s Guide to e-Learning” I found KJ-Films’ “Shakespeare Works!” which looks even more interesting. The project contains a 30minute film about Shakespeare (focusing on a key question for the 11-14 age group, “Why is he so famous?”) as well as an interactive CD loaded up with games and other such things.

At 175 euros for a 5 seat license it seems somewhat expensive for most of the school budgets I’ve known, but I can’t fault somebody for needing to make some money. Make money on the first project, that’ll give you the impetus to do another project.

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