Funniest reading in a long time
Apr. 27th, 2008 02:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunrabManga Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet - really!
Apart from a brief couple of sentences introducing the Montagues and Capulets as rival Yakuza families in Japan, the rest of the words are all Shakespeare's - though there are not all of Shakespeare's words; I miss "hand to hand in holy Palmer's kiss" but most of the puns are there and are made clearer than they would be were the drawings not there. Friar Lawrence is a Shinto monk. Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio dress sort of steampunk to go to the party at the Capulets' domain. Juliet wears some ridiculous clothing, but when she goes alone to Friar Lawrence, she is on her motor-scooter in a full-face helmet and really cool boots. Two things struck me that I hadn't thought about so much before - (1) Paris really is a nerd, and (2) one of the reasons that Juliet's father may have been trying to marry her off so quickly is that she really was a bit of a wild child and he suspected she might already be pregnant. This may be a theory that has already come and gone amongst the Shakespearati, but it's the first time it ever occurred to me.
We got back from TX Tuesday night; Wednesday we spent with our contractor going through the house we're buying, getting estimates on repairs and replacements. Thursday we had to take Gizmo bun to the vet - ear mites :( Friday, um, what did we do Friday? Make about ten thousand phone calls connected with various housey things - locksmith to change all the locks on the house right after we close/settle (which term you use depends on what part of the country you're in) - which will be 11 a.m. Monday. Let's see, somewhere in there we ordered a few pieces of furniture, which will be delivered at various times. The painters will start either Tuesday or Wednesday and should only take a day or at most a day and a half.
The catch to us actually moving is this: the sellers have not yet removed the furniture! What's even sillier, they have had to ask us for a week's extension after closing to find someone to haul it off - and we made them put up a $200 escrow so that if they don't haul their stuff off after that week, we can pay someone to carry it away. The old lady who had owned the house for the whole 50 years since it was built passed away last year - her heirs have had over 5 months to remove the furniture. Sheeeesh.
Anyway. That's what I've been busy doing, and why I'm not caught up on reading my flist, and haven't posted.
Apart from a brief couple of sentences introducing the Montagues and Capulets as rival Yakuza families in Japan, the rest of the words are all Shakespeare's - though there are not all of Shakespeare's words; I miss "hand to hand in holy Palmer's kiss" but most of the puns are there and are made clearer than they would be were the drawings not there. Friar Lawrence is a Shinto monk. Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio dress sort of steampunk to go to the party at the Capulets' domain. Juliet wears some ridiculous clothing, but when she goes alone to Friar Lawrence, she is on her motor-scooter in a full-face helmet and really cool boots. Two things struck me that I hadn't thought about so much before - (1) Paris really is a nerd, and (2) one of the reasons that Juliet's father may have been trying to marry her off so quickly is that she really was a bit of a wild child and he suspected she might already be pregnant. This may be a theory that has already come and gone amongst the Shakespearati, but it's the first time it ever occurred to me.
We got back from TX Tuesday night; Wednesday we spent with our contractor going through the house we're buying, getting estimates on repairs and replacements. Thursday we had to take Gizmo bun to the vet - ear mites :( Friday, um, what did we do Friday? Make about ten thousand phone calls connected with various housey things - locksmith to change all the locks on the house right after we close/settle (which term you use depends on what part of the country you're in) - which will be 11 a.m. Monday. Let's see, somewhere in there we ordered a few pieces of furniture, which will be delivered at various times. The painters will start either Tuesday or Wednesday and should only take a day or at most a day and a half.
The catch to us actually moving is this: the sellers have not yet removed the furniture! What's even sillier, they have had to ask us for a week's extension after closing to find someone to haul it off - and we made them put up a $200 escrow so that if they don't haul their stuff off after that week, we can pay someone to carry it away. The old lady who had owned the house for the whole 50 years since it was built passed away last year - her heirs have had over 5 months to remove the furniture. Sheeeesh.
Anyway. That's what I've been busy doing, and why I'm not caught up on reading my flist, and haven't posted.
