The Worth of the Wasted: Shakespeare and Bradley
Stumbled on to from Colonoscopy: It’s Time to Check Your Colons (hee) (via kottke)
Strangely, I haven’t read very much Shakespeare criticism, excepting Harold Bloom because my first Shakespeare professor referred to him frequently. I like Frazier’s description and caveats, though, so Shakespearean Tragedy will be added to my shelves soon.
(re: “colonoscopy”—I don’t always like Internetisms¹, but the jumper colon? I like.)
¹ If you get a message from me with “u” or “r” in it? Assume I’ve been buried alive and have MacGuyver’d a way to send out 1 brief message.
The Art of Selling an Expensive Watch
Because guilt over spending is playing a big role in the sales downturn, he teaches salespeople to suggest a “sorry gift”—of another timepiece—for a wife who might be disappointed that her husband just dropped a sizable sum on his own wrist.
Oh my gods, that’s ridiculous. A “sorry gift”. Dude, just get a Charger, then all you have to do is carry her lip balm.
sigh.
(via Put This On)
