Corybantic Musings

A hilarious video about different fonts as personalities

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 17:00:46 GMT

I was browsing through Instagram last week, and stumbled on this hilarious video in which this woman plays several different typefaces as different personalities: Futura is "futuristic," Times New Roman is the washed up default font, etc. If, like me, you are a bit of a geek when it comes to fonts and typefaces (I'm still not really geeky enough to know the real difference between the two terms), you will love this video.

Instagram Typeface Video

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Just taking a look here

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 20:09:37 GMT

I set this particular blog up a little while back as a sort of experiment.

But I never really got the hang of posting here, so I never really check it out.

Except for now. I recently re-vamped my main personal blog at Corybanter.com, to be a sort of hub for all of my various blogs.
At first I didn't even think to include a link to this one, as I rarely use it. But today I was thinking, why not include some links to the blogs I rarely use? At least then, if something doesn't work out for one of my favorite sites, I can still find the other ones I've tried in the past.

So here I am, just checking in, to see how things are looking. I may mess with the theme a little, as I've never been quite content with it. (UPDATE: I changed to a theme I like better. I may keep it for a little while.)

I leave you know with a picture of a dictionary page. Because I like dictionaries...

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reading Shakespeare 2021-22

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 20:13:15 GMT

Sometime towards the end of 2019, I saw an article from the Folger Shakespeare Library about a reading plan for reading the entirety of Shakespeare's Complete Works in 2020. At the time, I remember thinking, "What a great idea!" And then, of course, I promptly forgot all about it. Now, here I am, a quarter of the way through 2021, and I'm thinking about it again. Shakespeare's traditional (but purely hypothetical) birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks, and I'm thinking maybe, just maybe, I could start the plan in media res, as it were. The plan, created by Ian Doescher (author of the hilarious Star Wars by William Shakespeare series), looks like it would be fairly easy to adapt to 2021-22. If I start immediately before Shakespeare's birthday, I would start with my favorite play...Hamlet. The plan would go something like this...

2021

Hamlet: April 19-28

The Rape of Lucrece: April 30-May 4

Sonnets 1-80: May 6-8

Othello: May 11-18

Sonnets 81-154: May 20-22

Love’s Labour’s Lost: May 26-June 2

Pericles: June 4-9

Cymbeline: June 11-18

King Lear: June 22-30

A Lover’s Complaint: July 2

The Passionate Pilgrim: July 3

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: July 6-10

The Merchant of Venice: July 12-16

Much Ado About Nothing: July 20-26

As You Like It: July 28-August 3

Macbeth: August 5-10

Troilus and Cressida: August 12-20

Antony and Cleopatra: August 22-29

Coriolanus: August 31-September 10

All’s Well That Ends Well: September 12-19

Measure for Measure: September 21-27

Henry IV Part 1: September 29-October 5

The Merry Wives of Windsor: October 7-13

Henry IV Part 2: October 15-22

Henry V: October 24-31

Henry VIII: November 2-9

Edward III: November 11-17

Timon of Athens: November 19-24

The Winter’s Tale: December 1-7

The Tempest: December 9-14

The Two Noble Kinsmen: December 16-23

The Phoenix and the Turtle: December 27

A Funeral Elegy: December 29-30

2022

Twelfth Night: January 2-8

Henry VI Part 1: January 10-16

Henry VI Part 2: January 18-25

Henry VI Part 3: January 27-February 2

Comedy of Errors: February 4-8

Taming of the Shrew: February 10-15

Titus Andronicus: February 17-22

Romeo and Juliet: February 24-March 2

Richard III: March 4-12

Julius Caesar: March 14-19

Two Gentlemen of Verona: March 21-25

King John: March 27-April 1

Richard II: April 3-9

Venus and Adonis: April 13-17

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Beware the Ides of March

Fri, 15 Mar 2019 23:37:05 GMT

Way back in 44 BCE...

Flourish

Soothsayer. Caesar!
Caesar. Ha! who calls?
Casca. Bid every noise be still: peace yet again!
Caesar. Who is it in the press that calls on me? 100
I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music,
Cry 'Caesar!' Speak; Caesar is turn'd to hear.
Soothsayer. Beware the ides of March.
Caesar. What man is that?
Brutus. A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March. 105
Caesar. Set him before me; let me see his face.
Cassius. Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar.
Caesar. What say'st thou to me now? speak once again.
Soothsayer. Beware the ides of March.
Caesar. He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass.

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A new favorite word?

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 20:21:40 GMT

Speaking of words that make me smile, how about this?

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Words, words...words

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:53:18 GMT

Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet. Words, words, words.
(William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2)

It occurs to me that, despite my longtime interest in words and language (dictionaries, thesauri, usage, etc.), I've never kept an online journal of favorite words, thoughts on language, that sort of thing. I suppose I could use this simple blogging site here at Dreamwidth for that purpose. It's just a thought. I'm still not sure I'll actually use this journal regularly. Meanwhile, here is one of my favorite words, which I don't get to use nearly often enough...

absquatulate

intransitive verb

ab·squat·u·late | \ abzˈkwächəˌlāt, abˈsk-\

-ed/-ing/-s

Definition of absquatulate

1slang : DECAMPa frontiersman preparing to absquatulate and head for the wilderness

2slang : ABSCONDthe cashier absquatulated with the funds

(copied and pasted from m-w.com)

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Like I really need another blog/online journal

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:09:08 GMT

It's a sickness, I guess. I keep finding new and different places to blog or journal.
I stumbled on this place while looking for the blog of a former professor, who used to have her main blog at LiveJournal.com.
I kind of liked the look of Dreamwidth, so I figured, what the heck? And here I am.

I don't suppose I'll be spending a whole lot of time here, but you never know...

At the moment, I'm sitting at White Bison Coffee in Nashville, looking out the window as I type. It's kind of a grey day, but warmer than it's been for the past several days. I have a cold, so the hot coffee feels good in my throat as I guzzle it down.

I've been tidying up my various blogs lately. I have several of them, on a variety of subjects. (Some have no subject at all, like this one.) Here are a few of the online places I've been visiting the most:

Corybanter.com - My personal website and blog
Baker Street Babble - a blog about my interest in Sherlock Holmes
Willy Wigglestick - a blog about my interest in the works of William Shakespeare
Dallas: The Poetry of Alice K. Howell - an online transcription of a small book of poems by my grandmother, Alice K. Howell
The original Corybanter blog - my very first blog, where I still post links, music, and other brief material
Bites of Bard - a little Shakespeare "mini-blog," where I occasionally post my favorite Shakespeare quotes

That's about all for now. Thanks for reading!

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