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A Cat Commission

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My Year of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet [1996]

Happy Valentines Day. Unless you are single. Then you can just enjoy a Saturday. I didn't anticipate this one being as tough to write about as it ended up being. I broke format a little bit to try to get out of my own head on it. If

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Self Portrait 2026 #7

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Self Portrait 2026 #6

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Self Portrait 2026 #5

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Self Portrait 2026 #4

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My Year of Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet [1968]

I'm watching 50-some odd Shakespeare adaptations this year and then writing about them for My Year of Shakespeare. Moving on from "Taming...", we're into our Romeo and Juliet unit, to which I must begin with: Welcome back Franco Zeffirelli and your screechingly-overacting

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Self Portrait 2026 #3

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Self Portrait 2026 #2

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Self Portrait 2026 #1

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McLintock! [1963] and The Hottie and the Nottie [2008]

I'm watching 50-some odd Shakespeare adaptations this year and then writing about them for My Year of Shakespeare. When I was growing up during the 90s, when I started reading my parents' Entertainment Weekly, there seemed to be a consensus opinion that the mid-to-late

My Year of Shakespeare

Deliver Us From Eva [2003]

Finally, a Shakespeare adaptation that tackles real issues people have: What if baked beans too spicy? Mouth is on fire, how to put out baked beans fire? Oh no he's eating the beans! It's like if Quora wrote a screenplay.