I am doing something a little crazy. It's not as if I really need another goal in my life right now but I saw this challenge on Facebook and I couldn't pass it up!

I am going to read all of Shakespeare's works in one year.

If you're interested in participating visit: www.shakespeareinayear.com or search "Shakespeare in a Year" on Facebook.

I am keeping track of my progress here so I know what I have read and what is still in front of me.

The Shakespeare in a Year Challenge:

Comedies and Tragedies
(listed by approximate publication date, based on Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom)

The Two Gentlemen of Verona COMPLETED: 07/13
The Comedy of Errors COMPLETED: 07/14
Titus Andronicus COMPLETED: 07/15
The Taming of the Shrew COMPLETED: 07/18
Love's Labour's Lost COMPLETED: 08/08
Romeo and Juliet COMPLETED: 08/22
A Midsummer Night's Dream COMPLETED: 07/12
The Merchant of Venice COMPLETED: 09/12
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Much Ado About Nothing
Julius Caesar
As You Like It
Hamlet
Twelfth Night
Troilus and Cressida
All's Well That Ends Well
Measure for Measure
Othello
King Lear
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Timon of Athens
Pericles
Cymbeline
The Winter's Tale
The Tempest
The Two Noble Kinsmen

Histories
(listed in chronological order)

King John COMPLETED: 07/15
Richard II COMPLETED: 07/19
Henry IV, Part I COMPLETED: 08/28
Henry IV, Part II COMPLETED: 09/06
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Richard III
Henry VIII

Poems

The sonnets
Venus and Adonis COMPLETED: 07/29
The Rape of Lucrece COMPLETED: 07/31
The Phoenix and the Turtle

So if Hobbits are real:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070921/ap_on_sc/hobbit_wrist_4

Does that mean there is a secret wizarding society living amongst us too?

So, have like all y'all abandoned livejournal? It seems like hardly anybody writes around here anymore!! I've been pretty bad also, most of my stuff is ending up over on my myspace now since I know way more people on there than I do on here. Is everyone else in the same boat? It seems like the only posts I see anymore are from the communities I'm a part of.

What's the story homies?!?!?!

A little shill for a great artist and an all around wonderful dude.

Gavin Creel's debut album dropped yesterday! He's a talented force to be reckoned with.

Check him out and pick up his album by visiting him at gavincreel.com. He's also moving his blog over there from myspace, so you can catch his exciting adventures as he finds his way out in L.A. (he just picked up and moved out there from NYC a few weeks ago. How I envy him!)

My own place to shill:
Colleen's favorite artists

I read an awful lot, so I decided I would keep a list of all the books I read this year (beginning January 2006). If I am someone you think you share interests with, you can definitely check out my list for suggestions. Books are listed in the approximate chronology that they were read:



-Letters from Backstage - Michael Kostroff
-Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
-Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss and the Musical Rent - Anthony Rapp
-Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (don't be a pansy, read the unabridged!)
-The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
-Lord of the Flies - William Golding
-The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
-Angels & Demons - Dan Brown
-Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
-Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban*** - J.K. Rowling
-Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire**** - J.K. Rowling
-Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix**** - J.K. Rowling
-Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince**** - J.K. Rowling
-Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone** - J.K. Rowling
-Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets** - J.K. Rowling
-Calling Bernadette's Bluff - Dale McGowan
-The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
-Babbit - Sinclair Lewis
-Deception Point - Dan Brown
-Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
-Watership Down - Richard Adams

*=number of repeated readings throughout the year

A place to showcase my favorite artists:

http://www.velvetchain.com/

http://www.mattcaplan.com/

http://www.gavincreel.com/ - Album dropped March 1st! Check him out.

Adam Pascal - Adam doesn't have a website for his albums (which is unfortunate) but you can order them through sh-k-boom records.

http://www.anthonyrapp.com/

http://www.jasonrobertbrown.com/

( New kittens )

One of these things is not like the others....

As promised, some more pics of the little one.




About a week ago, she wasn't really walking yet.




This morning, she was playing in the comforter on my bed.




Attacking a highly vicious, wayward sock.



And, can't forget the prince.




His new favorite place to sleep, my bathroom sink.

HAPPY LONGEST DAY OF THE YEAR.

woot. woot.