Marissa Lingen

America's editor really should have caught that

Oh yah REAL DIFFERENT

I'll get to finishing it! :)

oh yah you bet

Is it Minnesotan, or is it THE MOST Minnesotan, that given five words to sum up a novel, I used "ope" for one of them?

I mean, obviously, because "Uff da, terraformed an inhabited planet" would have been SIX words.

But this plot is a lot of big uff da, though.

Ope, terraformed an inhabited planet

did someone (okay: me) remember to warn you about tournament snow

I had such a great time being interviewed by Renan. He asked some great questions and also gave me a chance to shout-out @culagovski.net and @theahmedraafat.bsky.social. Give this one a read!

Those sprightly young whippersnappers and their rock and/or roll events!

I went about my morning and then realized: I'M 47. David, am I supposed to be your sprightly, energetic young friend? because you may want to sit down, I have some news.

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I definitely like Richard III adaptations/rewrites, so....

You can borrow our DVDs if you don't have it streaming somewhere convenient

I love that show so much

Like the ghost scene. They would be so cute. "Despair and die!" in their little treble voices.

"And Othello is like a birthday party!" sir it is not

Note that if someone in your family has a peanut allergy this is no more difficult to do with crushed cashews and cashew butter, so you can still have a lot of the flavor experience!

My college Shakespeare professor described it as "an overdecorated Christmas tree of a play" and I was like "if your Christmas is generally full of viscera, sure"

Oh, not me.

I call him Dickon.

It is over-the-top Tudor propaganda! It is absolutely packed with scenery-chewing villainy, and the different things people do with that in different productions are endlessly fascinating.

I have NOT and I SHOULD

More on this soon

I spent the year I was 11 going around with a backing chorus who would chime in, "Hurrah, hurrah for the Pirate King!" any time I cared to belt that I was the Pirate King, and that sort of thing is formative.

No similar anecdote about Richard III alas. Or maybe just as well.

I also have a far-and-away any-production-any-time Gilbert & Sullivan, and it is The Pirates of Penzance. That one I actually HAVE seen in a school cafeteria. Ruth was the same age and general attractiveness as Mabel and they did not bother with wigs or makeup to distinguish, and I DID NOT CARE.

It is Richard III, it is not even close, it is Richard III every day and the matinee on Sunday.

I will see Richard III in any production you like. If your 8yo nephew is doing Richard III in the cafeteria, I will go.

My late father taught me many things but this was one:

It's good to eat ice cream in the summer because it cools you off.
It's good to eat ice cream in the winter because it doesn't melt so fast.
It's good to eat ice cream in the spring and fall because the lines are shorter.

I appreciate you too, buddy

He only has one set of notes, and he used them for Minnesota and the UK. I promise we are not generally interchangeable.

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my enthusiasm outpaced my typing, which is rare

HURRAH FOR JOHN AND IHS CLEAN TABLE