Seriously, though, Mather, just shut up already. You don’t live in Salem Village or Salem Town. You weren’t one of the judges during the trials. You keep butting your nose in and writing pamphlets no one asked for and vacillating like a see-saw and just generally being a ponderous Puritan pest. You don’t even have the coolest colonial name–that Oscar clearly goes to Wait Still Winthrop. I would just like to read one chapter of this excellent book that doesn’t have your name in it […]
Auntie Maim
Not long ago, Pajiba posted an article defending the character of Benny in the musical Rent. My brother and I–such devoted fans that when he came to visit me at college we didn’t go to parties, we got nosebleed seats at the Wang Theater to see the Boston tour–discussed it later on and agreed: we were now too old to really relate to the heroes of this musical that had meant so much to us. It was a bit of a heartbreaking moment, to be […]
Reading at the Round Table
As a rule, I do not enjoy having someone read to me. I never really liked it very much as a small child, I hated when other people were chosen to read aloud in school, and I’m not a particular fan of audiobooks either. I do, however, belong to a storytelling group–one that leans heavily on stories, songs, and sagas from the Middle Ages. When the leader of our group expressed an interest in having a group reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, I […]