Drinking and posting.

Best Drunk Post Ever.

Lis and I saw "All's Well" last night

The Actor's Shakespeare Project, our favorite Shakespeare troupe, is putting on "All's Well That Ends Well" through May 14th. If I say that, of the six plays they've done so far, this is the weakest, please understand that it is STILL amazingly good. It's just that it's very hard to follow up the best "King Lear" in 20 years in the United States.

I guess, if I had to rank them, I think I'd go
King Lear
Richard III
Measure for Measure
Julius Caesar
Twelfth Night
All's Well That Ends Well

Maybe I'd swap "Julius Caesar" and "Measure for Measure." Perhaps this simply means that I like tragedies better than comedies? I just don't feel that there's as much "meat" in "Twelfth Night" and "All's Well" as in the other ones -- although there IS enough, and the company and director find it, and use it.

Now that I've said that it's not as good as their other productions, let me tell you just how amazingly good it was.
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To help our President

So, the President of the United States has said that he's upset by a version of the National Anthem sung in Spanish.

He feels that it should only be done in the original, which is English.

I want to help him in this endeavor, so I've transcribed the original, English lyrics for you all to learn. Let's remember to sing them, instead of any later, degenerate versions.

( The original English lyrics to the National Anthem of the United States )