Happy Halloween

Last summer featured a production of the new play R&J&Z (Romeo and Juliet and Zombies) purporting to show what happens after Shakespeare gave up once his protagonists died.

http://cultureshock.bangordailynews.com/2014/07/11/rockin-out/bangor-native-gets-bloody-in-romeo-juliet-zombies-at-stonington-opera-house/

Zombies are the monsters du jour

Invading Shakesperean literature

- Romeo and Juliet -

Not Macbeth or Hamlet

Does undying love still endure?

If Jane Austen were alive today would she be writing about Zombies?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice_and_Zombies

Zombies now haunt Pemberly!

Incongruity to the highest degree!

The undead have been tossed in

The world of Jane Austen

Of etiquette and lively repartee.

$30 per Vote?  You Get What You Pay For.

Apparently in this election over $4 billion will be spent to influence votes, that’s not counting ‘dark money‘ that isn’t tracked.  In 2012 fewer than 120 million people voted.

Supreme Court decisions enhance

The power of surreptitious finance

But cash calls the tunes

The justices are buffoons

If they don’t see the candidates dance.

Clean campaigns are a joke

Transparency has gone up in smoke

Though on each side

Donors may hide

The right wing’s addicted to Koch.

So we get the best representatives money can buy?  In a recent vote on a bill that would ensure that in some cases women would be paid at the same rate as men,  ALL Republican women voted against it.  Did they also agree to take a 20 to 30% cut in pay?  If not, why not?

Paying them less isn’t right

You’d think women would stand up and fight

But they all voted nay

On a law for equal pay

Republican Women Unite!

I’m Working on a Title for This One

It’s a powerful, natural force

Physicists are seeking its source

Their lack of progress

Could be expected, I guess

They’re studying procrastination of course.

This weekend I finally started getting the sailboat ready to be hauled out of the water, even though I had only used it once this summer.  Next year ...

It was  job I could no longer postpone

I sought no help, I just did it alone

But I really don’t mind

Working solo I find

More leeway to gripe, bitch and moan.

Omitted by Design?

When Opera House Arts announced their expansion plans with a press release last spring, they gave themselves credit for an image I created, and neglected to mention Eric A Chase, Architecture (for whom I work) as their Architect.  In their latest newsletter publicizing the new lobby and scenery shop they again neglected to name their architect, though they mentioned others involved in the project.  

In promoting their new facility

The owners gave donors publicity

They thanked the builder as well

The architect’s name was withheld

Thus preserving my anonymity.

They gave another architect credit

For a quick little sketch that he did

The builder-to-be

Got promotion - for free

But the project’s architect? Fuhgedit!

Click on the title Other Stuff (at right) to read more.