We sing the songs we sang in life,
But in a key of tortured strife.
The words still roll from off our tongues,
But muted by worm-eaten lungs.
The notes, unsteady, harsh, and wrong,
Stop short, or else go on too long.
The chords we strike grate on the ear
And stir up discord, blight, and fear.
But still we sing all through the…

While I appreciate the respect for Aparo, who is to Batman what Curt Swan is to Superman for me, and I’m also glad you remembered Newton, who we lost too young, I can’t help thinking we should give some credit to guys like Sheldon Moldoff.

For me, the ethical problem is that it legitimizes piracy. To take up your analogy, it’s more like a pharmaceutical company that can’t get doctors to speak favorably about their product, so they give out free trials to drug dealers instead.

It’s definitely a possibility. But for me, piracy is wrong, and using it to bolster your mainstream programming is even more wrong.

I’m a high school teacher. Today was my last day at work. Summer vacation starts now!

Limerick disease is unkind
It really can mess with your mind
You start spouting verse
But then it gets worse:
You go into a rage when there are too many syllables in a line.

James already had the Scottish throne, right? So it was, technically, his claim to the English throne that Shakespeare was reinforcing. (Also, this is post Gunpowder Incident, so legitimizing King James I by altering the character of his ancestor, Banquo, was a politically good idea for Shakespeare). But I agree…

Of course, there is this possibility, too...but even then, it would seem an ethical problem for me. 'Supergirl' Pilot Leak: Theft Or CBS Marketing Ploy? — Forbes

So, just out of curiosity...would you consider it in any way unethical to view this pilot? That is, the pilot is on streaming torrent sites but not officially released, right? Or am I wrong?

Patrick Stewart as Macbeth

Ian McKellen as Macbeth

I have seen a post-apocalyptic version that’s rather bizarre...they keep all the language, but the costuming looks like something drawn in a 1990s X-Men comic book.

Intriguing. Of course, a film adaptation shouldn’t be totally faithful to its theatrical origins...but I find it odd that the coronation scene was a released clip, since we never actually see Macbeth crowned in the play. Act II ends, then Banquo appears and frets about Macbeth’s ascension, and then Macbeth and Lady…

My thesis needed just a little bit
Of up-close research, my advisor said.
The way he looked at me when he said it
Led me to drop out and come here instead.
I’ve found about a hundred species here
That don’t show up in any of my texts.
But when I skipped my flight out, it was clear
I’d formulated no plan for what’s next.
“Spot”…

No. We do not.

One of the greatest joys of my life was receiving the Batcave and Batmobile for Christmas when I was five. Birth of two kids, wedding, graduation—then the Batcave in fifth, I think. And depending on how the teenager is acting, the Batcave can move up a couple of notches on some days.

Whenever I look at the bottom GIF, I think to myself, “There is the love child of Doc Brown and Jack Skellington.”

I grew up on this lake. I’ve seen its face
Grow hard with cold, and gray when storm clouds near,
And seen my own cold, graying face appear
Surrounded by the candlelight of space,
Amid the paths that fallings stars would trace
When I looked down. But one night, late last year,
The water calm, the air cold, crisp, and clear—
T…

My partner Charlie Kwan, he took the call:
A raid on some place near Obama Street.
We took along a DoorMan. “If we meet
Up with some guns, I guess he’ll take the fall!”
The DoorMan barely fit through their cramped hall,
But he took out their front door nice and neat.
Then, sure enough, the bullets flew like sleet—
The…

I knew a guy in college who re-wrote A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a musical set in rural Colorado—so anything’s possible, I guess! But yeah, a Western (or antebellum Southern) Macbeth could be really cool.