Ok, that's funny.

My LiveJournal Sitcom
Bringing Up learnteach (ABC, 2:30): learnteach (Sheena Easton) hits on jeanvieve (Charo)'s co-worker. In the next town over, noressa (Marlon Wayans) plays chess against tugrik (Arnold Schwarzenegger), who doesn't know how. Later, greylady (Jack Benny) convinces maestrateresa (Parker Posey) to buy a apple. The week after, ianhess (Tracey Ullman) and cbailey (Tiffani-Amber Thiessen) buy the street. Soon afterwards, xot (Rita Hayworth) teaches madbaker (Patricia Arquette) about El Nino. Everyone learns a valuable lesson.
What's Your LiveJournal Sitcom? (by rfreebern)

Suck it up.

Ok, that's it, I'm not going to be the responsible one anymore. No more helping out. No more taking care of details. No more saying that something would be a good idea only to find that I'm in charge in perpetuo. No more plans or projects that take more than a moment. No more covering for people who have the wrong assumptions.

Why such a pissy mood? Because today it all fell apart. Appointments on top of appointments moving and cancelling. 5 minute work phone call turning into 2 hours of CYA documenting. Attempted B.M. shopping failing full out. People calling to tell me they can do the task they agreed to, but it's going to be done a day late...for an event that lasts an hour. People giving back grief over infrastructure suggestions. People asking me to carry things take care of things handle things and drive the known damaged vehicle over 17 in rush hour traffic with a front wheel whining and wobbling. Work, personal and all.

Note to self: Before biting everyone's head off, get some sleep, get some water (drink, drink, you're so going into the desert) and hit something, for goodness' sake, you're not fighting enough.

As for the rest of you, ignore this.

Hamlet at Shakespear Santa Cruz

Wow.

Best production of Hamlet I've ever seen, stage or film. No, really. Really, yes. It proves to me that two things are paramount: the words, and the movement, both in the fight scenes and out of them.

At no time did anyone truely appear to be acting enough to break my disbelief. At no time was any effect so gross that I thought "Stagey" rather than "Neat!" At no time did any soliquy seem out of place, or staged in. The actors ran up and down the aisles; the Ghost appeared from behind trees; the fight scene took the whole of the front of the stage, and had the right spirit completely. Hamlet's speeches had depth I hadn't seen before. Poor Ophelia, you could see exactly how the roots of her world were undermined and her sanity poured out.

I highly, highly recommend this production. Over Branaugh, which I respected. Over Gibson, who did the grave scene almost as well.

Who is a better builder than any archetect? Why, a gravedigger, because what he makes lasts to the end of the earth...