Tuesday 1 August 2006

No Wonder Lois Lane Won the Pulitzer

She was a shoo-in if her Pulitzer Prize-winning article was half as good as her poetry:

Can you read my mind?
Do you know what it is that you do to me?
I don't know who you are
Just a friend from another star

Here I am, like a kid out of school
Holding hands with a god, I'm a fool
Will you look at me, quivering
Like a little girl, shivering

You can see right through me

Can you read my mind?
Can you picture the things I'm thinking of?
Wondering why you are
All the wonderful things you are

You can fly!
You belong in the sky!
You and I
Could belong to each other...

If you need a friend
I'm the one to fly to
If you need to be loved
Here I am

Read my mind

What makes this even better is that it can be sung to the melody of the Superman love theme playing in the background!

Friday 28 July 2006

The Globe

We saw "Antony and Cleopatra" at the Globe Theatre on Wednesday. The modern Globe Theatre is a pretty accurate replication of the original (straw roof and all), just updated slightly to comply with modern safety standards.


It took me a while to get into it -- I wasn't too familiar with the story, and hadn't been to a Shakespeare play for years -- but it was entertaining in the end. Caesar was particularly good (and had an accent that was easy to understand). The production was staged in Jacobean style -- with period clothing and music -- which made it feel authentic. It felt like we were watching the same production that people watched almost exactly 400 years ago when Antony and Cleopatra was written.

My only complaint was that the weather was really muggy -- which was made much worse by having spent all day in a 90-degree office (our air conditioning has been broken, so I've been working in 85-92 degree temperatures in my office for the last two weeks).