amused[22:51]
leahbobet: ...Shakespeare has an IMDB entry.[22:51]
leahbobet: For some reason this shakes my world.[22:51]
matociquala: Hee[22:51]
matociquala: You didn't know that?[22:51]
matociquala: When he starts turning up "actor" credits I'll worry.[22:51]
leahbobet: I just found it. *g*[22:52]
matociquala: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0549265/[22:52]
leahbobet: ...[22:52]
matociquala: *g*[22:52]
leahbobet: I wonder if he's laughing quietly over in Faerie. *g*[22:53]
leahbobet: Like when he googles himself.[22:53]
matociquala: He sneaks over to add completely bogus stuff once in a while[22:53]
matociquala: Hee[22:53]
leahbobet: heeeee.[22:53]
stillnotbored: *g*[22:53]
leahbobet: And then they all crowd around the one computer there and laugh their asses off.[22:53]
leahbobet: And go get drunk on glamoured wine.[22:53]
matociquala: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0429627/[22:54]
leahbobet: Ben calls them all nancies for vanity-googling so often but he sneaks out of bed to do it at night.[22:54]
matociquala: heee[22:54]
leahbobet: And gets into fights with a sock puppet on the IMDB message boards.[22:54]
matociquala: Ben totally has sock puppets.[22:54]
matociquala: A whole stable of them.[22:55]
leahbobet: He gets them into flame wars.[22:55]
leahbobet: And sits back to watch.[22:55]
katallen: (is it a stable or a drawer?)[22:55]
matociquala: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0596942/[22:55]
matociquala: There's a bunch of great ones.[22:55]
matociquala: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0789737/[22:56]
leahbobet: George Bernard Shaw would be that guy who never snips his posts.[22:56]
matociquala: Hah![22:56]
matociquala: Oh god.[22:56]
leahbobet: Moliere, however, never uses capital letters.[22:56]
matociquala: And types in funny voices.[22:57]
leahbobet: (someone has to blog this.)[22:57]
matociquala: with too! much! punctuation![22:57]
matociquala: (I will)[22:57]
leahbobet: heeeee![22:57]
leahbobet: (okay. *g*)[22:57]
matociquala: Shaw and Jonson actually had a flame war on GEnie back in the old days[22:57]
leahbobet: LOL[22:57]
matociquala: that was printed out and circulated in dot matrix manuscript.[22:57]
matociquala: It's legendary.[22:58]
leahbobet: They don't talk to each other at cons now.[22:58]
matociquala: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0928492/[22:58]
leahbobet: Don't even need to put each other on the "panelists I don't want to be on panels with" lists.[22:58]
matociquala: Not since Jonson stuck Shaw's tie in the onion dip at the Tor party [22:58]
leahbobet: Oscar Wilde actually orchestrated that.[22:58]
leahbobet: And everybody knows except for the two of them.[22:58]
matociquala: Well, DUH.[22:59]
leahbobet: Because he told them all about it, later, while he was drunk in his pile of boys.[22:59]
matociquala: That's because Wilde got Marlowe to tell Jonson that he totally did not have the balls to go up to Shaw and tell him what he thought of him.[22:59]
leahbobet: (ooh hey: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338258/ )[22:59]
matociquala: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1656245/[23:00]
leahbobet: And he'd bought Jonson and Shaw a few beers each...[23:00]
leahbobet: So they were a little soused.[23:00]
matociquala: ooo[23:00]
leahbobet: Yeah, I waaaaaant.[23:00]
stillsostrange: ooooooh[23:00]
matociquala: Shakespeare was under the arboretum with Aphra Behn[23:00]
matociquala: He missed the whole thing[23:01]
matociquala: But is still telling people he was there.[23:01]
leahbobet: LOL[23:01]
matociquala: Poser.[23:01]
leahbobet: I love you guys. *g*[23:01]
matociquala: Everybody knows he used to write Ovid slashfic.[23:01]
matociquala: And now he's all down on his fandom.[23:02]
leahbobet: I heard the Ovid fanwriters sent out a mass-mail when he published his first play.[23:02]
leahbobet: Saying he's a plagiarist.[23:02]
matociquala: Seriously?[23:02]
leahbobet: Seriously.[23:02]
matociquala: I bet Marlowe was behind it.[23:02]
leahbobet: And Donne and Chaucer just ignored it, but still.[23:03]
matociquala: He used to write pr0n on the internets too.[23:03]
matociquala: probably still does.[23:03]
matociquala: Sockpuppets.[23:03]
stillnotbored: *eyes the room*[23:03]
stillnotbored: that explains so much[23:03]
leahbobet: Marlowe's actually writing the new Anita Blake comic.[23:03]
matociquala: And then there's Milton with the Bible slash. [23:03]
matociquala: Oh, well, that might be pretty good then.[23:04]
matociquala: At least John doesn't hide it, though.[23:04]
leahbobet: Cosplays and everything.[23:04]
leahbobet: With the wings.[23:04]
matociquala: Oh, I gotta google up some pics.[23:05]
matociquala: But Will's practically employing a whole freaking stable of lawyers sending out cease and desist letters...[23:05]
matociquala: You'd think he didn't steal that whole Romeo and Juliet thing his own self.[23:05]
matociquala: I can't stand that guy.[23:05]
leahbobet: Insecurity. *tsk*[23:06]
leahbobet: Eh, they're all genre hacks anyways.[23:06]
matociquala: Chaucer's pretty cool.[23:06]
matociquala: I like his blog.[23:06]
matociquala: Maybe a little self-absorbed.[23:07]
leahbobet: Had pirates![23:07]
matociquala: hee[23:07]
matociquala: Pirates are good.[23:07]
matociquala: Those guys.[23:08]
matociquala: I wish they'd stop wanking over whether the revenge tragedy is dead though[23:08]
leahbobet: LOL[23:08]
matociquala: And the fine dividing line between a history and a comedy.[23:08]
matociquala: historiocomedy[23:08]
matociquala: mundane tragedy[23:08]
matociquala: whatever.[23:08]
matociquala: it's all blank verse.[23:09]
matociquala: comedopunk.[23:09]
leahbobet: And only makes up a tiny percentage of book sales.[23:09]
leahbobet: The real money's in romance.[23:09]
matociquala: Oh, yeah, it's all about masques.[23:09]
matociquala: The public stage play is a dying art.[23:10]
leahbobet: Clearly society is going to hell.[23:10]
katallen: ::dies quietly::[23:10]
matociquala: If only we used bigger buckets of blood.[23:10]
matociquala: Like in the old days.[23:10]
matociquala: Titus Andronicus![23:10]
matociquala: The Spanish Tragedy![23:10]
matociquala: The audience would show up wrapped in layers of sheep's intestine.[23:10]
matociquala: THOSE WERE PLAYS.[23:11]
leahbobet: The sensoviscera is all gone now.[23:11]
matociquala: Bring back that kind of spectacle, and the audiences will come back.[23:11]
matociquala: And more amputations.[23:11]
matociquala: We need to hire some amputees so we can fake better stage dismemberments.[23:11]
matociquala: Or maybe cut off real hands.[23:11]
matociquala: Combine bear baiting with history plays.[23:12]
leahbobet: That's kinda crossgenre.[23:12]
matociquala: A little music.[23:12]
matociquala: and a bit with a dog.[23:12]
leahbobet: *ded*[23:12]
matociquala: if you build it they will come.[23:12]
leahbobet: How?[23:12]
matociquala: Neighbors gonna start pounding on the wall in a second. *g*[23:12]
leahbobet: We don't know. It's a miracle.[23:12]
leahbobet: heeeee.[23:12]
matociquala: LOL[23:12]
leahbobet: Er, mystery. *g*[23:12]
matociquala: *blogs*