Friday, June 22, 2007

Three Beautiful Things 06/22/07: Cleaning, American Shakespeare, Pancakes

1. I've spent much of the day cleaning and organizing my office at home which means sorting through books and reacquainting myself with cd's and dvd's I haven't thought about for a while and looking at book titles, remembering the experience I had reading things, wondering why I haven't read others. Indeed, an archaeological dig.

2. I listened to a radio program Sparky downloaded on a cd for me entitled, "Shakespeare Becomes American" and it verified one thing I've read and heard before: before large performing halls became popular and Shakespeare became sacred, robust and bawdy and shortened versions of his plays were very popular among the working class as popular entertainment. Recent movie versions have, possibly, moved us back in that direction again.

3. Molly made pancakes late in the afternoon. They were powder out of the box pancakes. I hadn't had pancakes for a long, long time. Mercy, I enjoyed them with butter, peanut butter, and honey on the first two, and as I prepared the other two, I remembered where the Karo syrup was and poured a bunch of that over the peanut butter. It really hit the spot and made me want to fix some not powder out of the box pancakes and get some real maple syrup.

3 comments:

MarmiteToasty said...

I love having a bit of a clean out, and discovering CDs and books that I had forgotten about, and things whirl though me mind about each thing.......

Someone :) send us a huge bottle/keg of Maine Maple Syrup..... and so tonight we are gonna make pancakes..... dont know if they are the same as the pancakes you doodles have over there..... but I cant imagine buying a pancake mix in a box LOL....... we use just flour, eggs and milk to make the mix...... do you know we have our own 'pancake day' here, its called 'shrove tuesday' :)....

x

raymond pert said...

marmite toasty I'm honored....yes, shrove tuesday is the day before Lent and the church men at our church cook pancakes and people eat 'em until they they burst....it's a chance to get yer last gluttony in before Lent...shrove Tuesday is Fat Tuesday in New Orleans...it's out of control LOL

Pinehurst in my Dreams said...

One of our favorite Shakespeare remakes is "10 Things I Hate About You." Based on the Taming of the Shrew. Funny stuff if you haven't seen it. I haven't done it with this movie, but I watched Emma (Jane Austen) and Clueless (updated remake) in a fairly close time frame. It was funny to see some of the scenes that were almost verbatim in the original. I tried to make connections between the Book - Movie - Updated version to see what was kept, what was changed, and what was left out (just in my head - although it might make a great communication research piece to see what they were saying, when they cut-out, changed and kept certain portions to make it modern.)

Hope that made sense to you. Hard to convey abstract concepts with just black and white words sometimes.