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Shakespeare for fun and profit

pkittle — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:12:08 +0000

So probably more for fun than profit, really, at least on my end of things. But a colleague of mine has a blog devoted to Shakespeare on film that I thought I’d link to, since it’s good stuff. I had sent him a link to my favorite Shakespeare spoof (with Colin Firth as The Man, no less), from Blackadder Back and Forth:

And he came back with one I’d never seen before, wherein we see how Hamlet ended up with its famous “To be” soliloquy and those gravedigging clowns (this time with Hugh Laurie as “Bill”):

If it looks like a duck …

pkittle — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:03:05 +0000

So I’ve been wracking my brains lately in an attempt to figure out why Sarah Palin looks so familiar to me, when it suddenly hit me last night. She’s been spending time in my living room on a daily basis, ever since my kids started watching reruns of “King of the Hill.” She’s Peggy Hill.

I thought I was so smart to figure this out, but then checked it out on some search engines and found that there are lots of others who think the same thing. Odd, eh? And then I came across this piece that’s too funny not to share:

Lolcats makez me laffs

pkittle — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:39:19 +0000

So I’m not sure I can reproduce cat grammar all that well, but I do love the funny (and sometimes quietly disconcerting) pictures on the Lolcats website.