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Happy Birthday and wishing you many wonderful and creative years ahead raemcn



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Tags: happy birthday
Current Mood: content
Current Music: Eagles Certain Kind of Fool

I was round at my local store yesterday, and the girl at the checkout mentioned that she thought we had a mild winter. Some strong winds, and rain, but apart from that it hadn't been bad. I agreed as said, would you believe, "We haven't had any snow or ice."

So what happens today, the 3rd of March? It snows! Ok to be honest, I don't think it will last, kinda disappearing already. But that will teach me to keep my big mouth shut, and not tempt fate!

ETA Know when you are angsting too much about not having your Angel: After the Fall #4? When you start dreaming about it. Yes, I dreampt that the envelope had arrived from the comic shop. shapinglight was staying with me at the time. She had the comic, and wanted to talk to me about it, but because I didn't have the comic yet, I wouldn't. Then a big envelope arrives with comics in it, but they were all the wrong ones, and no Angel! *sob*

For some reason I thought it important to have 4 pritt sticks as well.....

Tags: fate
Current Mood: annoyed

My friend Ronnie told me about the up-coming graphic novel they are about to make of Macbeth. The Guardian wrote about it on the 28, and he brought over the article. I tried to scan it, but by the time I got it, it was too badly folded to scan and be readable. There are three versions an *original text", "plain text" and "quick text".

It is thought this might make it more accessable to younger readers, who may not be able to see the play, but can see the pictures instead. While I can see this is a good idea, I do worry that some of the lylical attributes of Shakespeare's words might be lost.

Yes it has the advantage of being able to see the images, and yes, it was a play. Still a static picture is not the same as going to a theatre, and seeing the actors. Which quite a few of us reading the Buffy and Angel comics know is just not the same. That is not to say that it isn't a good idea. If it gets more people interested in the classics, then of course it is a good idea. Just a faithful representation in a TV series might be better. After all it is a moving image that Shakespeare was using to tell his tale.

Still if it gets the classics to a wider audience, who am I to complain!

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Current Mood: contemplative