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RIP Louis Marder…

…the world has lost another Shakespearean Antiquarian. Louis Marder’s life is illustrated below by those who knew and loved the man. Here i would like to add my acquaintance with the scholar whose work I knew was integral to my own method.

The date the early 1990’s, neophyte Will asking for answers on the […]

Biography in his works…

…Shakespeare, whoever he was, has to show himself in his works. Impossible, one would think, for him not to. And so he does, to the max. Only if you’re looking for a Nobleman, you’re looking with the wrong lens.

I’ve been reading Eric Sams book, the Real Shakespeare, and find myself agreeing with his […]

Eureka! I’ve got it…

…the Earl of Oxford and Shakespeare of Stratford were lovers. It’s the only way it all fits together.

Now Sh is free to be who he is and Eddie his own forever true self. It ties in all the counrty metaphor and husbandry imagery Sh brings to the tables. And the personal stories behind […]

Photo of Will 400 years on…

A weather-challenged poster hanging on an alley door, on the way from the New Globe Theatre towards the Rose Theatre’s remains.

Leaving deep Nature…

…silence is rare. lapping of water, rushing of wind through reeds, chirring and chuffing of birds, plopping of insects or fish mouth on lake surface, buzzing of insistent fly, bee, or mozzy.

the opening of a lily is that silent? Bald eagle baby screeches, dragonfly azure and slender flashing feathery wings. the gate on the […]

Sir Thomas More…

…I met a descendant of Sir Thomas More on sunday last.

He’s a graffiti artist named Pure Evil whose trademark is vampire bunnies, based in Shoreditch, London.

He told me that relatives had to pay the gatekeepers of London Bridge to release his head from the traitor’s spike for burial. We speculated how […]

RIP Mr Christmas

I live in Amsterdam. My first real contact with showbusiness, real raw unadulterated showbusiness, came through the Christmas Twins. I’d celebrated my 21st birthday a few days before, and a short walk from the houseboat, where I lived on the Amstel river, was the Backstage coffeeshop.

Unlike the coffeeshops Amsterdam is famous for, this […]

My-i blog

This medium. This digital domain is amazing like God used to be amazing. (dripping with innovation and miracles) For example my thick fingers are tapping an I-pod touch’ screen, not even a phone, and within seconds…I’m online for as long as the power grid lasts.

What’s on a man’s mind?

Yes it begins with S.

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To all the readers…

…of this idiosyncratic idiocy, I wish you all a bardiculous 2009!

Lest we forget, 2009 is the 400th anniversary of both the Sonnets and Pericles in May.

Celebrations will be year long.

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