Archive for July, 2007

Catholicmom.com book contest

July 30th, 2007

Lisa Hendey is running a contest during the month of August on her excellent Catholicmom.com website. Broadway Books, publisher of The Book of Jane, has generously donated several copies of the book for Lisa to use as giveaways. To enter, readers just need to drop Lisa an email with “The Book of Jane Contest” [...]

Back from vacation

July 27th, 2007

As we wind back into the swing of things, we’ll be focusing most likely on writing up reviews of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival productions we saw for bardolatry. (John’s review of As You Like it—and we did— is already up.)
For now, here’s a lovely little morsel that really takes me back—in this case, to the [...]

On Vacation!

July 12th, 2007

Clan Murphy will be AWOL for a week, and with limited internet access, so we won’t even try to post. We’re going to Ashland to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival!

Save Harry Petition

July 10th, 2007

It appears there are petitions circulating, on and off the net, to beg J.K.Rowling not to make Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows the last book in the series, or at least the last book in the world she’s created.
I have mixed feelings. I don’t want the series to end any more than any other [...]

Danny Kaye and Beverly Sills…do opera right!

July 9th, 2007

One of the great little pleasures of my youth was watching Danny Kaye’s TV variety show every week. (I credit this dear lunatic with introducing me to my first Gilbert & Sullivan patter song—an important moment in any young life!)
I don’t know the origin, but here’s an operatic (ahem) duet Kaye did with the late [...]