The Happiness Thread

Continuation from the not so happy thread.
I managed to close my late fathers business ( which I could not control remotely and was causing me problems ), found a seller for the country house where the business was in, managed to buy a new car and I will manage to pay my credit for my house next year

 

If all goes as planned, I'll be getting Cthulhu finished on Saturday and then my leg will be complete.

 

I'm gonna need context.

 

Good lick with the surgery.

 

I'm picturing you now with a strange Cthulhu-like growth on your leg, waving and undulating like Medusa's hair.

 

I think I remember something about Dogberry's tattoo. I assume that's what's being talked about?

 

Sorry, hahaha! Yeah, my tattoo.

 

Pics or it never happened

 

The first time I saw Lady Merc's new username (we know each other from another forum) I misread it as "Dogbert's Watch."

I always picture this dude, and now he's got a Cthulhu leg...

 

I had to look up Dogberry's Watch. Turns out it comes from Shakespeare. Impressive.

Shakespeare and Lovecraft. Now that's my kinda girl!

 

Dogbert is my very favorite cartoon dog. I like him even more than Snoopy.

 

Now I know what to do for my next tattoo.

Just kidding. I've already got the next three planned. Just gotta save up for them.

Dogberry is my second favorite Shakespearean character. Mercutio is my first favorite because everybody needs a sassy gay friend to curse your house when your one night stand's cousin kills him. That Queen Mab speech is perfection.

 

Mercutio was amazing in the Romeo+Juliet movie (which was also amazing).

 

I love that version because it captures what clueless little teen idiots they were. So many others (Zaffarelli (sp?)) have fallen for "the greatest love story ever told" and been blinded to the fact that Romeo would have made Juliet a mixtape if he was of my generation and a Spotify playlist if he were younger and that would have been a grand romantic gesture.

I like Mel Gibson's Hamlet for similar reasons. He's a young man, not entirely emotionally stable yet, and just fixin' to kill somebody dammit!

 

My favorite adaptation is the one where my username is from. Keanu Reeves is in it, which is a major reason why I love it, but the Much Ado About Nothing film version is absolutely marvelous. Emma Thompson is Ursula. Kenneth Brannagh (or however you spell his name) is Benedick, and Kate Beckinsale is Hero. Michael Keaton is Dogberry. And Denzel Washington plays the main soldier dude. Such a fantastic cast! I'd watch it but I don't have it.

 

Cascade was having teachers report on the 10th and classes start the 13th, but tonight they pushed that back until the 17th and 24th.

Yay! That means I have another week to work at the high school garden!

(I'm selfish.)

 

I really like that film as well. My original reason for liking Romeo+Juliet was simply because it's so cinematically powerful.

I watched a bunch of filmed versions of Shakespeare as I was reading the plays in order to help understand them. I also made sure to get the version where one page shows the play and the opposite one explains the terminology that might not be familiar to modern readers, and just basically what's going on. I've only done this with Hamlet and MacBeth so far, but I have King Lear and a few other lined up on my Shakespeare shelf, for whenever I decide to delve into them. I forget which other ones, I have 3 or 4 more. I think one is Much Ado. I'll try to see the film version with Keanu and Keaton.

 

One thing I think the interpretations leave out is the subtle (and not so subtle) use of dick jokes Shakespeare shoved into his work. My favorite one comes from Twelfth Night where Malvolio says the phrase, "Some men are born great. Some men achieve greatness. And some men have greatness thrust upon them" and the number of times I've seen people use that as a way to indicate a personal growth just... It's magical. Because it's about growth all right. Just a bit further down than ya personality.

 

Nice pen0r punnage.

 

My god, what a soundtrack too! I love everything about Baz Luhrmann's take, even the line he moved: "The drugs are quick."

Every performance was amazing, but Mercutio's rant is one of the best scenes in the movie. There's a tattoo I want but will probably never get that involves in one spot a quill writing "True, I talk of dreams..."

Another favorite performance was John Leguizamo's. "Peace? I hate the word..." Damn it, he's cool in that movie. And oh the crush I had on Claire Danes (she's my age, so it was appropriate ate the time. )

 

Happiness for me in laughing (and the boar), and from what I read, the guy saw the funny side, too.

This is the kind of story we need right now.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53692475

Cheeky boar leaves nudist grunting in laptop chase

A nudist in Berlin got too close to nature for comfort when a wild boar snatched his plastic bag - which had his laptop inside.
The naked man gave chase to the boar and her two piglets - much to the amusement of fellow sunbathers.
Adele Landauer, an actor and life coach, took photos of the chase at Teufelssee - a popular bathing spot - and put them on Facebook.
"Nature strikes back!" she wrote, adding that the man laughed it all off.
"He gave it his all", with not a stitch on, she reported. "I then showed the photos to the man, he laughed soundly and authorised me to make them public."

 

I wonder... Did anybody help him? And would they have if he had been fully clothed?

 

Help him? Whaddabout the local resident (boars) who did their part to chase off tourist weirdos?

 

Well there were 3 of them against one of him! Humans Unite! Unless one is naked.

 

If the weather in Iowa was as beautiful as it is this morning every day of the year we'd have a zillion people living here, at least one pro sports franchise, maybe a major entertainment/arts production company and we'd be able to host WrestleMania every four or five years.

Stupid winter.