Monthly Archives: July 2024

Reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale – Act 4 Scene 4 (part 2)

Posted on July 31, 2024 by Mac McEntire

Re-reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! As the epic act 4 scene 4 continues, Perdita continues to show us what she’s made of.   We just got to know young lovers Perdita and Florizell, and now they’re joined on stage by … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Friday: Son of a Genius

Posted on July 26, 2024 by Mac McEntire

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Time to get all inner child with the kid-friendly Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius. Son of a Genius, from writer and cartoonist Chris Eliopoulos, started as some backup comics appearing in … Continue reading →

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Reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale – Act 4 Scene 4 (Part 1)

Posted on July 24, 2024 by Mac McEntire

Re-reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! It’s taken us a while to get here, but act 4 scene 4 has a lot of what people love about this play. Lots of folks will summarize The Winter’s Tale by saying the first … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Friday: What’s bugging you?

Posted on July 19, 2024 by Mac McEntire

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Remember Marvel’s Annihilation crossover? No? Well, issue #578 sure does.   Johnny, in voiceover captions (is that the right term?) describes meeting a woman at a bar called The Other Side of … Continue reading →

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Reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale – Act 4 Scene 3

Posted on July 17, 2024 by Mac McEntire

Re-reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! In act 4 scene 3, we meet… the king of thieves! The previous scene established that we’re in Bohemia know, caught us up on some characters, and set up some plot. And now Autolycus struts … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Friday: Universal remote

Posted on July 12, 2024 by Mac McEntire

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Issue #577 gives us some classic mayhem on the moon. Except by “mayhem” I mean “lots of standing around and talking.” We begin with the Inhuman royal family arriving at the Blue … Continue reading →

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Reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale – Act 4 Scene 2

Posted on July 10, 2024 by Mac McEntire

Re-reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! It’s a whole new play in a new locale for act 4 scene 2. Welcome to Bohemia! This scene begins with Polixenes, the king of Bohemia, and Camillo, a former Sicilian lord. Polixenes says he … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Friday: Ice to meet you

Posted on July 5, 2024 by Mac McEntire

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. We’re going underwater for a soaking wet slugfest in issue #575.   We begin with Sue giving a slideshow (Powerpoint?) presentation about an isolated Antarctic base which is located over a massive … Continue reading →

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Reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale – Act 4 Scene 1

Posted on July 3, 2024 by Mac McEntire

Re-reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! This play is of note among Shakespeare’s canon because of how different it is. Case in point is act 4 scene 1, in which Father Time suddenly walks onto the stage. This scene is simple … Continue reading →

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