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I can think of no connection between the above items.

  1. American Idol’s Adam Lambert sung a version of “Tracks of my Tears” that was beautiful, moving, and better than the original (for those of us who aren’t fans of Motown). God! I loved it! And he really cleaned up his look, too! (He looked like a Hot Topic shopper before.) You can listen to most of his live version with the most miniature youtube video ever embedded (below). If you want to see him perform it, you’ll have to head on over to the American Idol site.

  2. Last week I read Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath–A Marriage, a biography about the most discussed poetic couple (couplet! heehee) in the world. After that, I read Ariel: The Restored Edition, Plath’s last book of poems, which was published after her suicide. This version is set in the original order Plath intended, rather than the one Hughes had edited. New to Plath? Read Mushrooms. New to Plath and have some serious analytical skills under your belt? Try her most famous poem, Daddy and read along while Plath reads it out loud.
  3. Kozy Shack Rice Pudding is soooo good. I like “original” best. You can get it at the grocery store in tubs (DANGEROUS) or snack packs (more expensive, but ultimately you may spend less on future gym memberships).
  4. Fellow blogger Lorraine turned me onto HootSuite, where you can combine and manage multiple Twitter accounts, automatically shorten URLs without having to venture over to TinyURL, and simply organizes your Twitter-world. BTW, as you probably noticed, you can follow Stickers & Donuts on Twitter. I like answering @ replies! FYI: You can also follow Rainn Wilson (he plays Dwight on The Office, of course)!
  5. Finally, I have become increasingly obsessed with Shakespeare’s Hamlet over the past few days. It began when I watched the 1996 version of the film (this one), which I almost guarantee is the best version in existence. Kenneth Branagh is unquestionably the best Shakespearean actor I’ve seen, and he will make the play come alive (as they say) even if you sat through your high school English class saying WTF. (It is amazing to me how many people have played Hamlet and have so clearly had no idea what he was saying.) If you want to be a super-dork like me, you can read along with a written copy (No Fear Hamlet from Sparknotes is nice (and free), but don’t get too into reading the Modern Translation — that misses all of Shakespeare’s precious plays on words!). Kate Winslet is also great as Ophelia, and Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Jake Lemmon, & Charleston Heston also pop in for a few scenes. Here is a fun kind of crazy scene where Hamlet is pretending to be mad:

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