Star Wars by William Shakespeare (pdf)
PROLOGUE.
Outer space.
Enter
CHORUSCHORUS
It is a period of civil war.
The spaceships of the rebels, striking swift
From base unseen, have gain’d a vict’ry o’er
The cruel Galactic Empire, now adrift.
Amidst the battle, rebel spies prevail’d
And stole the plans to a space station vast,
Whose pow’rful beams will later be unveil’d
And crush a planet: ’tis the DEATH STAR blast.
Pursu’d by agents sinister and cold,
Now Princess Leia to her home doth flee,
Deliv’ring plans and a new hope they hold:
Of bringing freedom to the galaxy.
In time so long ago begins our play,
In star-crossed galaxy far, far away.[Exit]
h/t VA Viper
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Rob Scuderi !!!!
Yessssss!
This play is being performed live in Boulder in a couple weeks.
http://www.boulderbookstore.net/event/boulder-book-store-players-performing-selections-william-shakespeares-star-wars
– Tales from “Teh Militarizations”, here and here, but not here.
….and here a little.
Awesomeness
I didn’t even realize it was a full book until I clicked through your link!
Just ordered the hardcover, rather than Kindle this time, because I want to see those illustrations.
BBH
ABC aren’t real officers and these 6 assholes coming out of the dark to SWAT some young women is beyond the pale.
I don’t give a flip if the charges are dropped. These guys need to have their asses fired and the agency needs to be fined in the millions.
cops are fags what can you do
Since I don’t do the twitter thang, and since this is the top thread:
From the sidebar:
Paine is a pain. Or at least can be.
Meaning, I like Common Sense; and really wish he’d have dropped dead of alcohol poisoning, or some damn thing, before writing anything else.
that’s so mean
What can I say? I have a hard heart.
it’s ok I was just startled by your vehemence
Let me put it this way, I’ve read : “The Rise and the Funcion of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity” And The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Funcion in Latin Christianity and Authority and the Sacred: Apsects of the Christianization of the Roman Worldas well, and you haven’t.
Dead thinkers of Deep Thoughts are more useful than live ones.
-I guess I have a hard heart too, then.
Paine devolved into Leftism, though I suspect the virus was like shingles – lurking and waiting to break out.
-As for [Red] Star Wars: I agree with Jonathan Last and his The Case for the Empire.
Paine didn’t devolve into leftism. He was a radical before our revolution, and remained one thereafter.
That’s what makes him a pain of a Paine.
Say what you will about Burke (I’m looking at you, Tracy Coyle) but at least he knew enough to discriminate between our revolution and the French one.
I didn’t mean that as accusatorily against Tracy as the black letters against a white screen make it seem. You have to imagine me pointing a beer bottle at Tracy while we all sit around the campfire, shooting the shit, so to speak.
Also, I’ve just remembererd that feets wrote something late on the third (or perhaps early on the fourth) that I didn’t want to leave unremarked upon, but it was late and I had to be on the road early yesterday. Now I need to go find it again.
best let sleeping dogs lie sometimes
HAH! found it.
I was never very good at resolving the discretion is the better part of valor equation, obviously.
No, seriously, I found it.
Stoopid html
Ernst
can you give me the link without embedding it? I’ll correct your links then
https://proteinwisdom.com/?p=49924#comment-1000435
I feel foolish
Fortunately, that’s not an unfamiliar sensation. So I carry on.
From Russell Kirk’s essay, ‘A Revolution Not Made, But Prevented’:
Source: http://www.mmisi.org/ma/29_04/kirk.pdf
Apologies for the formatting problems with the Russell Kirk quote. I copied it from the scanned PDF and attempted to correct all of the formatting issues, but failed. I blame this abject FAIL on my part to having celebrated our Glorious Independence Day with too much gusto [and Maker’s Mark].
– Its always best to call out scurvey dogs and Progressive posers, and its simply impossible to be foolish if you’re over the Mustard toes target Ernst.
ok, I corrected the first link. Let me know, Ernst, if you want me to retire the related comments.
It only looks silly and stupid because it was silly and stupid, so why try to disguise it by pretending it never happened?
Leave ’em as they lay.
note to html fail – make a notepad file with blockquote and link tags or any others
Never Apologize for too much Maker’s Mark, Bob.
Unless, that is, your apologizing for being selfish with your Maker’s Mark.
In which case, learn to share, you damn drunken Irishman.
Now, Ernst, I thought you were a friend!
Insulting me by calling me an ‘Irishman’! That’s low – a low-blow.
– Besides giving drunks everywhere a bad name.
I am proud to be a Professional Dipsomaniac!
– Live feed from Tahrir square with English texting.
do those folks ever sleep?
– Al Jazeera – English version world news.
Sounds like a line from something submitted to the Trayvon Defense and Poetic Society .