You Could Star In Your Favorite Novel
Have you ever wished that Juliet would just disappear so you could have Romeo all for yourself? Well, you don’t have to travel back into time just to influence Shakespeare to use your name, just go to U Star Novels, fork over $24.95 and you can get your name switched out for Juliet’s, or for [...]
Broetry: Poems for the Frat Boy in All of Us
What? You don’t have a frat boy in you? Well, you might get a kick out of Brian McGackin’s (AKA the “Broet Laureate’s”) slender-but-fun volume of poems anyway. They include gems like this, a bro-tastic send-up of William Carlos Williams’ “This is Just to Say” —
I have finished
the beer
that was in
the icebox
and which
you were [...]
Kickstart This: Terminator the Second
Here’s an amazingly excellent idea for a mash-up: a theatrical production of Terminator 2 re-written in the language of Shakespeare. Nashville-based theater company Husky Jackal dreamed up the project, and before you ask the inevitable question — why T-2? — here’s their answer:
First of all, it’s just an awesome movie. And you’d be amazed by [...]
Who Will Be Famous in 10,000 Years?
Tyler Cowen, an economist and the blogger behind Marginal Revolution, was asked by a reader:
Who do you think will still be famous in 10,000 years? People from history or now. Shakespeare? Socrates? Hawking?
He answered (in part):
In that case, I’ll go with the major religious leaders (Jesus, Buddha, etc.), Einstein, Turing, Watson and Crick, Hitler, the [...]
