If I had to summarize my feelings for this book in one sentence, it would read something like, “This is so silly, but I love it!” In all honesty, I don’t know why I had never heard of Bo Burnham until recently, and I must say that although he is a little ridiculous and random, I find his brand of comedy to be extremely amusing. Egghead: Or, You Can’t Survive on Ideas Alone is a short book of poems with accompanying drawings by Chance Bone; the […]
Wait until she sees my rich golden shaft
I recently saw Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, with Mark Rylance, on Broadway, in an all-male performance. It was sublime. We are seeing it again next week, so I read the play in preparation. I haven’t read the play – perhaps any Shakespeare – for at least 15 years. It turns out reading Shakespeare is like riding a bike. (Although if you have to get onto a bike after 15 years, it is far scarier than reading Shakespeare.) Viola and Sebastian are twins, shipwrecked and separately rescued. […]
In case you have forgotten how joyous it is to literally laugh out loud
I am shortly relocating from NYC to Seattle, and last weekend, I flew to Seattle to find a place to live. Finding a place to live in three days is stressful, and it doesn’t help that the flight from NYC to Seattle is six hours, so The Rosie Project turned out to be the perfect book. This book is laugh-out-loud funny yet generous towards its characters, while maintaining a sharp wit.
Why Is The Sky Blue?
Did you ever think about where colors come from? I mean, when you’re not high, for real think about it? I never gave it much thought before reading Christopher Moore’s ‘Comedy D’Art’ Sacré Bleu, and now I find myself thinking about it all the damn time. Sacré Bleu is so named because it revolves around a very specific shade of blue, an ultramarine so pure and vibrant that it’s very hard to duplicate & often was reserved for paintings of the Blessed Virgin. What Moore tries […]