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TNA and the Shakespeare Meme
Mar. 22nd, 2012 03:43 pmAlthough as both concern clowns and fools ...
Dear TNA, I'm giving you this comment free. If you somehow cheat James Storm of his victory at Lockdown, I am joining in the Tennessee riot. I know you enjoy feasting on the tears of your fans and viewers, but that will be one step too far.
( Now for somewhat less inflammatory comments from Victory Road )
The twittering thing is getting out of hand. I mean, TNA, you always pride yourselves on being the alternative to WWE, why are you pulling the same thing? Twitter is twitter, it is ephemeral, people will or won't talk about things because they want to. This very morning, Twitter was full of people talking about Greg Doran getting the artistic directorship of the RSC, tonight it'll be One Direction and whatever they've done to annoy their fanbase today. And that's the cool thing about twitter. You can't force it.
(Actually, at the moment, there's a really interesting discussion going on under #copyrightgreyareas )
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Shakespeare Meme - Day 6 - Favourite Clown
I think this one is one of those problems with change in society through time. Because, as a general rule, the bits in Shakespeare plays that people don't get tend to be the clowns (and I'm quite often with the people that don't get). Some characters, like the Porter in Macbeth or the Gravediggers is fine but other characters like Launcelot bloody Gobbo are pretty much a pox.
So I was a little stuck, until the wiki page on Shakespearean Clowns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespearean_fool) mentioned that Puck might count. Therefore I'm going with Puck.
( Other Days )
Dear TNA, I'm giving you this comment free. If you somehow cheat James Storm of his victory at Lockdown, I am joining in the Tennessee riot. I know you enjoy feasting on the tears of your fans and viewers, but that will be one step too far.
( Now for somewhat less inflammatory comments from Victory Road )
The twittering thing is getting out of hand. I mean, TNA, you always pride yourselves on being the alternative to WWE, why are you pulling the same thing? Twitter is twitter, it is ephemeral, people will or won't talk about things because they want to. This very morning, Twitter was full of people talking about Greg Doran getting the artistic directorship of the RSC, tonight it'll be One Direction and whatever they've done to annoy their fanbase today. And that's the cool thing about twitter. You can't force it.
(Actually, at the moment, there's a really interesting discussion going on under #copyrightgreyareas )
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Shakespeare Meme - Day 6 - Favourite Clown
I think this one is one of those problems with change in society through time. Because, as a general rule, the bits in Shakespeare plays that people don't get tend to be the clowns (and I'm quite often with the people that don't get). Some characters, like the Porter in Macbeth or the Gravediggers is fine but other characters like Launcelot bloody Gobbo are pretty much a pox.
So I was a little stuck, until the wiki page on Shakespearean Clowns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespearean_fool) mentioned that Puck might count. Therefore I'm going with Puck.
( Other Days )
