My ex-husband would have said the same thing, only he wouldn't have been so nice about it. One of the many reasons he's my EX-husband.

Consignment shop, baby. Pocket that money.

That's nice. I have heard of people refitting their mother's dress or using fabric — stuff like that.

Did you mean to write a few THOUSAND dollars? That's what most of them start as. Then they go up! It's outrageous, but, hey — if it's important to you, and you can afford it, go for it.

This is, without a doubt, the BEST wedding dress story EVER. It's a wedding story everyone will want to hear — it's amazing. Amazing. I love Candice. Can we populate the world with Candices?

Thank you, very much! You sound like a really great parent and person.

In New York City? I live in NYC. You DEFINITELY have stuff like that. And, Throwdetta, you and I both know your point about Pyramus and Thisbe cannot stand it you haven't read the play in ten years and I was looking at it yesterday. That is not educationally sound...which leads me back to where I started — play…

WAIT! I just had THE BEST idea! Some arts centers, churches, after-school-programs have programs, YMCAs, etc., where adults can do plays with their kids. They even have Shakespeare for Tots — stuff like that. You wouldn't need a baby-sitter, it's something you could do with your little super-hero, and it would…

So, your thesis is that the play is badly written, but well performed? Maybe. Lysander's comment "He knows not the stops" is not the only comment on the performance. Theseus also says, "his fellow doth not stand upon points."

I am sorry. To me, research is fun. MY nerdiness runs deep...deeeeeeep...very deep. I forget that other people like to do other things and don't enjoy spending their spare time trying to figure out how many siblings Dobbin actually had in Vanity Fair and stuff like that. Well, I have me a little copy of Midsummer…

I know — but with a HUGE following. Why, WHY do people give up their selfhood, their common sense, their ideas of right and wrong, to follow these idiots? I never got it. I am a lousy follower and a suspicious person.

Lord Kitchener? The British WWI politician and war hero? Is there ANOTHER Lord Kitchener? And he was an earl — Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener. Good g-d, I am getting older and nerdier by the second. Oh, g-d! I am turning into my father! Once, when I was young (apparently 80 million years ago), my…

Gallop apace, you fiery footed steeds? That one? That whole speech is just her saying, basically, "G-d damn, why can't it be night so I can shtup that hot Romeo already?" It also, of course, foreshadows his death.

Well, I have seen her sing live. In person. If it exists online, I don't know. But it's amazing. Claire Huxtable had her an amazing child.

You will have to show me how Juliet thinks she is a supernatural being. I never saw it. That does not mean it's not there — not at all. So, come on. SHOW ME!

I never thought of Juliet as a pretentious teenage asshole. She is astoundingly strong — and she is a week away from being fourteen, poor thing. She is strong and brave — that girl sticks to her guns. Romeo, on the other hand...running around, sounding like Petrarch, instantly dropping Rosaline (who doesn't like…

He could be 16. We don't know. He certainly doesn't in any way behave like a grown man. He acts like a teenager.

No, it's not mentioned. But he acts like a teenage boy. His behavior is youthful and silly. His clear love and imitation of Petrarch always reminded me of the way boys imitate stars today.

Well. This teacher wants to know if you Shakespeare seminar explained WHY Capulet went from being all, "let more two more summers wither in their pride/ere we think her ripe to be a bride" to being "But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next/To go with Paris to Saint Peter’s Church/Or I will drag thee on a…

Ever heard her sing? Live? I have. You'll bow down and worship — lose yourself completely in gasps of admiration and wonder.