An apple a day...

Read a fascinating health article in The Globe and Mail today: Apples: even better for you than you thought.

Now, commodorified is always exhorting me to eat apples. I know I should - more than I do - I just don't seem to remember, exactly.

This is incentive.

Know thyself...

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
- Thomas Szasz (1920-)

Hamlet, Ottawa-style...

Seems there's a new Ottawa Shakespeare Company, no apparent relation to the one Stewart Bain once set up, that did such a terrific Macbeth. I still have the T-shirt.

A new Shakespeare company, and they're doing one of my two faves, Hamlet. Woo-hoo! They said the video here was "in the style" of the show, and having seen it, I wonder what that means. Wildly rewritten? And what I really wonder is, how come Hamlet's in bed with Ophelia and still half-dressed? That really is a messed-up relationship...

Fringe 3x19: "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide"

Oh, how I love Fringe. It can be wacky and free-flowing and still not break the thread of its own serious suspense.

Tonight's episode "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide" had so many gems, most of them the kind that catch you by surprise. Some nice unspoken references to all sorts of movies and TV shows, too - all the usual suspects. ( A few... )

Helping brains...

When I was looking for the apple article in The Globe and Mail today, I found (besides all the articles about the Blackberry RIM and their rivalry with Apple) this article about a possible treatment for dementia. Nice to hear good medical news about the brain.