January 6th, 2006 -- Get out your Riverside Complete Works
Cursing is so much more fun in Elizabethan English. Sources for this squabble include Macbeth and Coriolanus, but most of it comes from Richard III, which is fast becoming my favorite of the non-comedies. Alas's last rejoinder there, by the by, is not in Dutch, but Turkish. Three years in Istanbul, you know.
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September 28th, 2008
Alas will be back for the month of October. How can I let a Halloween go by without her?
March 4th, 2008
Within 24 hours, Bauhaus releases a new album (inspiring my inner black-hearted Goth), and Gary Gygax passes away (crushing my inner magic-user geek). What up with that, world?
February 19th, 2008
I'm getting better-- the arrival of nearly 40 lbs. of temple oranges bodes for the return of full health. I'm genki enough that I'm trying out some really weird things this week-- expect amateur attempts at illustration stunts instead of plot. The blue pencil really has me trying things out.
