It's been a while, but I finally made a new zine: tea at night, about the ritual of coffee in the morning, a pot of tea at night. I missed the last two jams—the first time since I started Sunday Zine Club. Motivation has been a hard ask these last months, and February is, tbh, not looking any better. I don't remember the last time we saw the sun.
Heated Rivalry got me through December and January, and I'm watching the Olympics again, after giving the last few years a pass. Experiencing the Olympics in your own city, and then the aftermath, really takes the shine off the whole thing, but hockey is making me happy right now. It's just me and the cat in the house this week, and I've done a whole lotta nothing. I'm writing this newsletter as a way to kick my own butt and get something done.
(ed. note: I wrote this on Saturday, then woke up to sun on Sunday!!)
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Ian McKellen was on Stephen Colbert's show this week, performing a speech from the late 1500s play, Sir Thomas More, written by a number of Elizabethan playwrights, including William Shakespeare. McKellen first performed it in 1965, then for BBC Radio in 1983, and then in 2016, right before England voted themselves out of the European Union. It is an attempt to quell a xenophobic riot in the streets.
Say now the king
(As he is clement, if th’ offender mourn)
Should so much come to short of your great trespass
As but to banish you, whether would you go?
What country, by the nature of your error,
Should give you harbor?
You can find the PDF (or ePUB or plain text) at Project Gutenberg, where the play is attributed to Shakespeare, but the provenance is much more complicated than that. Wikipedia has a summary of the six hands we know wrote the manuscript.
some good reblogs this month
- Alan Alda celebrated his 90th birthday at the end of January, and of course they had a rum cake
- January 29th is Shane Hollander Day in Ottawa
- Every time I see a Mark Grantham painting, I'm right back in Halifax in 2011. (He and his partner are recovering from a recent assault, and they could use your support if you're looking to buy some art.)
- shaving half a sheep is harder than you think
- Tumblr went down for 2 hours on Friday afternoon, and we all lost our minds
just one jam to tell you about this week
- but it's Sunday Zine Club!! #20 omg and the theme is GROW. We started on February 1 and the deadline is March 1, which makes me so happy.
