This is a video we received from our friend Peter… and feeds into our long time belief that Shakespeare is for everyone! So enjoy a little (very little) Hamlet and then pencil in some plans to come see Macbeth and Suddenly Macbeth coming up at the Warehouse! Shakespeare ROCKS!

Macbeth - February 12-27
Suddenly Macbeth - February 19 & 20

Next in our string of public service blog entries, we thought it was time that you, the DG public, take the time to understand a little bit more about the internet.

Don’t you feel better now?

A friend of mine posted this on facebook, and I thought it was a valuable enough public service to repost it here:

Click on the image to enlarge and you’ll never again have to ask yourself, "Should I eat that?" 

Well, it seems that, for the first time since 2007, the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock is going to move.  And, for the first time ever, you will be able to watch online as a bunch of scientists make a metaphorical statement about when we’re all going to die in a catastrophic hail of nuclear fallout.  Good times.  They haven’t yet released which direction the hand will be moving, which means that it could be better or worse.  We’ll have to tune in to find out.  Of course, according to sub-par John Cusack movies, we already know when it’s all going to end.  Maybe they do too!  Maybe this is all a charade and The Bulletin of the Atomic Sciences has been in league with the Mayans all this time!  Who knew?  

Anyway, they say you can tune in at 10am EST January 14th through www.TurnBacktheClock.org… but so far, I just get an error every time I go there.  Maybe the world has already ended and they haven’t had the heart to tell us yet.  I mean, if we’ve been at 5 minutes ’til midnight for three years, that can’t be good.  And there are frozen iguanas falling from the trees in Florida.  It’s no rain of toads, but still!  Or on the bright side, maybe daisies and puppy dogs will descend on the Academy of Sciences building in New York, bringing us all together and ending the need for something called "The Doomsday Clock."  Or maybe I’ll just pop in a copy of Dr. Strangelove and call it good.

So you know… Jen has a thing for zombies. And so you know…

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Let us know how long you would last after being bitten!

You know how the best kids’ movies are the ones that don’t talk down to kids, that are full of action, and - best of all - that aren’t oblivious to the fact that there will also be grown ups in the audience who might, possibly, like to be entertained too.  Well, believe it or not, the same is true of theatre for kids.  Madness, I know.  And one of those playwrights who always manages to create exciting worlds for kids and grown-ups alike is our very own Jayce Tromsness.  Did you see his Frosty the Snowman or Not Even A Mouse at SC Children’s Theatre?  Well… you should have.  But never fear - this weekend there’s a chance to have a sneak preview of another fun-tastic kids’ show by our main man: Oodles of Strudel Scrumptious Kitchen Caper.  Meet Prince Frederick and Princess Daphne; Tansey Ragwart and Piewackit; Chef Ladle, Marzipan, Griddle and Mossip and all the Scrumptious Kitchen crew this Saturday and Sunday at the SC Children’s Theatre 2nd Stage (153 Augusta St - SCCT Headquarters).  It’s 7:00 on Saturday the 9th, 2:00 on Sunday the 10th… and it’s just $1!  We’ve got a crew of some of your favorite Greenville actors, and we’ll even have a Foley sound artist to help bring the whole crazy story to life.  See you there!

Today is the day we join hands and celebrate that Miss Traysie was born!  Huzzah!

So smile!  Today is National Miss Traysie Day!  But whatever you do, don’t give her toast for her birthday.  She’s absolutely stymied by toast.

So, according to this article, the Russian space agency wants to pull an Armageddon and send a crew to deflect an asteroid that has about the same chance of hitting the earth as I do of winning the powerball jackpot… twice.  NASA’s calculations seem to suggest that there’s almost no chance this would ever happen, but they manage to be delightfully condescending, letting the Russians know how nice it is that they’re willing to help out in case a real emergency ever presents itself.  Me… I say go for it.  And I say we toss in Ben Affleck as part of the deal.  In fact, I would be willing to sacrifice any number of B-list celebrities to this cause.  We could tell them it’s a reality show… they’d be signing up in droves!  I’m going to go call the Russian space agency right now…

Courtesy of Jen’s cousin Erin:

It is. 

The Christmas season just doesn’t seem to be complete without the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah, does it? Well… here’s a version that Jen’s mom highly recommends: