Richard II: Act 1

In one of the scenes of Shakespeare’s Richard II, six different characters “throw down the gauntlet,” one of the characters, having already thrown his own gauntlet down, is forced to borrow someone else’s gauntlet. This is quite a bit of gauntlet throwing.

Here is my summary of Richard II, Act 1.

1.1
Richard: I am the king. We will now hear two men charge each other of treason.
Bolingbroke: Mowbray, you are a traitor.
Mowbray: Am not.
Bolingbroke: Are too.
Mowbray: Liar.
[Throws down gauntlet]
Richard: Please don’t fight.
Mowbray: If I don’t I’ll be shamed.
Richard: Oh, well, go do it outside.

1.2
Duchess: Avenge my husband.
Gaunt: No.

1.3
Richard: Time for the fight. Contestants announce your purposes.
Bolingbroke: I am Bolingbroke, and Mowbray is a traitor.
Mowbray: I am Mowbray, and Bolingbroke is a liar.
Herald: Start the fight.
Richard: Stop the fight. Bolingbroke you’re banished for 10 years, Mowbray you’re banished for life.
Bolingbroke: That sucks.
Mowbray: That sucks even more.
Richard: Because your father looks sad, Bolingbroke, you only have to be banished for 6 years.

Gaunt: Son, if you pretend this exile is a vacation, it’ll be fun.
Bolingbroke: No, this sucks. I can’t play pretend.
Gaunt: No really, it’ll be fun.
Bolingbroke: No, it’ll still suck.
Gaunt: I’m going to die if you leave.
Bolingbroke: Good bye.

1.4
Richard: Is Bolingbroke gone yet?
Amuerle: Yes.
Richard: Everybody liked him.
Greene: Let’s go make war on Ireland.
Richard: Good idea. Let’s take everybody’s money too.
Bushy: John of Gaunt is almost dead.
Richard: Let’s hope he dies so we can take his money.

Picture perfect

One of my best pictures of Vince. He's holding a freaking belt, in case you want to know.

Internet Nazi

I just found out that David Six, younger brother of fan-favorite Steve Six, is now the unofficial internet prefect of TAC. He has laid down an ultimatum saying that if anyone is doing anything illegal and it slows down his internet enjoyment, he will do everything possible to revoke your computer privileges. He can’t give you an hour, but I do wonder what type of hour you would get for downloading illegal files. Maybe you would have to used compressed air to dust all of the servers or maybe shine Sean Cosgrove’s shoes.

Needless to say, I'm not shaking in my boots. I have three things on my side here:

1. Fan subtitled anime is quasi-legal. The copyrights are Japanese and not American, besides which the Japanese tolerate unlicensed fansubs.
2. I don't download every day of the week.
3. He doesn't know my secret identity: Baron Von BitTorrent.

With these three things on my side, nobody can stop me! And if they do, then I’ll quickly think up several more.

Ratings

I'm proud to announce that I am Maurice Chavez is already getting stellar reviews. In other words, I've gotten a few complements on the print version. Vince, they love ya, they really do.

In other news, I have homework, so I can't afford to reminice. I will reply that the only reason the segments on NPR were so sappy was because I got up after the hard news and the features were on.

God, it's hard to be clever and witty when you need to be studying the Ethics.

Smack

There's not much one can say to your boasts about beeing Van Smack. You think you can talk trash. There we are. I was hoping that this could be a more productive, communitive blog where we could discuss our differences and potentially agree to disagree. Instead you seem intent on making this into your own little machismo playground where you aren't even smart enough to have a post title. You want a gauntlet? I have many gauntlets, all of which I will throw down, preferably in your soup, splattering your face with the contents and upsetting any chances you have with the lady types.

Here's a reaction: you say I wasn't going to get very many visits on my blog? Well then, please explain why you turned the comments off on yours. Was it becasue no one was commenting or that no one was reading in the first place. I at least wear my hits on my sleeve.

Actually, the throwing down of the gauntlet was more because you were taking for-freaking-ever to accept the invitation to blog. Anyway, let's pick some subjects on which you can cut your rhetorical skills. What's your opinion on...Google vs. Yahoo? (Just for starters).

Post problems

There is no reason in the world why Blogger should limit the number of characters in your posts. That is patently absurd.

We welcome Vince. Hello Vince!

First day of classes. I would like to celebrate by having something completely unrelated:

A LEGO version of the bible. Click here.

Throwing Stones

Sounds like The Rolling Stones are slightly more hesitant to thumb their collective nose at Bush than they might say. The aging rocker and the rest of the stones seem to have lost a little swagger, as Jagger didn't sing the band's new song "Sweet Neo Con" at the kick off event for Stone's latest tour. "'George Bush doesn't listen to us,' Keith Richards said." Sounds like they understand that the song won't affect the President very much, just like most of the anti-war movement of the entertainment world.

I am not saying that Bush is immune and these guys are complete dolts, but rather that this form of protest isn't exactly stimulating or anything other than red meat for liberals rather than a form of social change.

By the way, that's one big friggin' pair of lips.

Begin; (Cr)apple

This is the first post! Awesome!

Now to get down to brass tacks, this blog is the result of a very small flame war between my roommate and myself on our respective blogs Vince's Awful Blog and Something Completely Different. I have challenged him to a joint venture and hopefully he accepts. If he doesn't, he is unfit to be called a man and shall from then on be called a "me-". He will have lost his "n". This blog is in addition to our own personal blogs so it will have to develop on its own. That is all well and good.

Here is a cool site: The iToilet! Take that Steve Jobs!

Oh and on another note, apparently Microsoft has deleted Apple's HQ from their map the entire earth project.