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Harold Bloom’s List of Shakespeare’s Masterpieces.
“Shakespeare has some two dozen masterpieces among his thirty-nine plays…” “twenty-four of which are masterpieces.” The Merchant of Venice A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Twelfth Night Romeo and Juliet Macbeth Hamlet Othello All’s Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Love’s…
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Resolutions 2016
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eSports Arena Hearthstone Tournament
Jack & I went to eSports Arena in Santa Ana for the $500 Hearthstone tournament. Jack was on fire and excited to play–first round he played one of the better players who crushed in him two games. The second match was also a stomping by Mike, who was actually super friendly about it, but Jack…
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The Leash – Ada Limón
After the birthing of bombs of forks and fear,the frantic automatic weapons unleashed,the spray of bullets into a crowd holding hands,that brute sky opening in a slate metal mawthat swallows only the unsayable in each of us, what’sleft? Even the hidden nowhere river is poisonedorange and acidic by a coal mine. How canyou not fear…
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Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
Such a great read.
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Aggrolites–Live at the Observatory
Brett & I went to a Thursday night show at the Observatory in Santa Ana to watch a fairly straight ahead night of Ska. The opening band was a young group from East LA which had that High School Band Kids enthusiasm which is likely my favorite thing about Ska–you know, that early No Doubt…
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U2–Innocence and Experience ive in Paris
The HBO broadcast of the U2 Show in Paris–which had originally been canceled because of terrorist actions–was out right amazing. The production was similar to the rest of the tour, but the opening and closing were amazingly powerful…not a band I am generally that big a fan of, but this was an outright amazing show.
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David Given Schwarm 