Poets' Jade Splinters...

This website/review via RB's horoscope totally made my day yesterday. It is a collection of aphorisms from and relating to Chinese poets.

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Hamlet 2

Yes, I did like the movie, and found it not only funny, but oddly uplifting. It was, as one of the characters states somewhere in the film, a farce of tragedy, which is where Steve Coogan excels. He plays Dana Marschz, an actor seven years sober, and at the end of his rope, teaching drama at a high school in Tucson Arizona. His career has passed him by, his wife---not sober, and involved with their boarder---is leaving him, and he has noble ideas, but crappy manifestations of art. In short, he is narcissistic, self-obsessed, neurotic, and totally damaged. And in a satire on the 'inspirational teacher' movies at which this film pokes fun, he has written and is putting on a sequel to Hamlet that is also an exegesis of his beyond-Oedipal issues with his father.

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