Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th’ rooky wood; Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, Whiles night’s black agents to their preys do rouse. Shakespeare, MACBETH, 3.2 #BookWormSat #Birds #RookyWood

Some say that ever ’gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour’s birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long, And then they say no spirit dare stir abroad, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed, and so gracious, is that time. HAMLET, 1.1 #BookWormSat

But what said Jaques? AYLI, 2.1 #ShakespeareSunday #UndertheSea #JaquesCousteau

Q: How deep? A: Thirty fathom. ALL’S WEEL THAT ENDS WELL, 4.1 #ShakespeareSunday #UndertheSea

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. HAMLET, 4.3 #ShakespeareSunday #UndertheSea #LesPoisson #LittleMermaid

Be pleas’d that I shake off these names you give me. I never yet was thief or pirate, Though I confess, on base and ground enough, Your enemy. Shakespeare, TWELFTH NIGHT, 5.1 #BookWormSat #PeterPan #CaptainHook #OnceUponaTime #ColinODonoghue

A Tinker, damsel? Shakespeare, THE TWO NOBLE KINSMAN, 3.5 #BookWormSat #PeterPan #Tinkerbell

“That Slightly shakes his parting guest by th’ hand.” Shakespeare, TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, 3.3 #BookWormSat #PeterPan #SlightlySoiled

I could not sleep, nor dine, nor sup in quiet… SIR THOMAS MORE, 5.3 #ShakespeareSunday #WhiteHouseBallroom #NoKings 🎨: #JohnDeering

[The Queen lets fall her fan.] Give me my fan. What, minion, can ye not? [She gives the Duchess a box on the ear.] HENRY VI, pt. 2, 1.3 #ShakespeareSunday

The skipping King, he ambled up and down, With shallow jesters, and rash bavin wits, Mingled his royalty with cap’ring fools… HENRY IV, pt. 1, 3.2 #ShakespeareSunday #KingCharles #Trump

You may my glories and my state depose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those. RICHARD II, 4.1 #ShakespeareSunday #BenWhishaw

BOLLINGBROKE I thought you had been willing to resign. KING RICHARD My crown I am, but still my griefs are mine. KING RICHARD II, 4.1 #ShakespeareSunday

This your sheep-shearing, And you the queen on’t. THE WINTER’S TALE, 4.4 #ShakespeareSunday

When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight… Shakespeare, LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST, 5.2 #BookWormSat #Flowers #London 📷: Victoria Embankment, London, late April 2025

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled shows. Shakespeare. LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST, 1.1 #BookWormSat #Roses #AllHallows #Bronx 📷: All Hallows High School, Bronx, New York, May 2021

Betty White's refusal to remove Arthur Duncan from her show because of his skin color ultimately led to the program's cancellation in 1954. #history

Hasn’t whined about needing a ballroom to feel safe

Every time they say “the wife of the British Ambassador” I just want to say “Try a crack out of TROILUS AND CRESSIDA”. I wonder if she gets that a lot. #statevisit2026 #likemymancoleportersaid #brushupyourshakespeare #ShakespeareSunday

Chiron and Demetrius: Go fetch them hither to us presently. Why, there they are, both baked in this pie; Whereof their mother daintily hath fed, Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred. #ShakespeareSunday #WorstDinnerPartyEver @redbulltheater

Proceed by process, Lest parties (as he is belov’d) break out… CORIOLANUS, 3.1 #ShakespeareSunday

Welcome, gentlemen! I have seen the day That I have worn a visor and could tell A whispering tale in a fair lady’s ear, Such as would please; ’tis gone, ’tis gone, ’tis gone. ROMEO & JULIET, 1.5 #ShakespeareSunday

But, i’faith, you have drunk too much canaries, and that’s a marvelous searching wine, and it perfumes the blood HENRY IV, pt. 2, 2.4 #ShakespeareSunday #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsAssociation It may not be the first time she’s been escorted from a ballroom.

He’s here in double trust… MACBETH, 1.7 #ShakespeareSunday #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsAssociation

“Non mancate alla nostra festa” Fail not our feast. MACBETH, 3.1 #ShakespeareSunday Hey, y’all, good morning! This bloody mug is from the Silvano Toti Globe Theatre in Rome.

The Southern Poverty Law Center announced its under Justice Dept investigation targeted for its past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups. Interim CEO Fair said in a video that the Trump administration has “made no secret of who they want to protect and who they want to destroy.”

We thank the gods Our Rome hath such a soldier. Coriolanus [I, 9] #ShakespeareSunday

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.” ~ Romeo and Juliet (A2,S3). #ShakespeareSunday #MotownRecords

Tim Curry, the absolute legend, turns 80 today. This man took huge swings.

What means that trump? TIMON OF ATHENS, 1.2 #ShakespeareSunday

Here the lady sings a Welsh song. KING HENRY IV, pt. 1, 3.1 [stage direction] #ShakespeareSunday Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­dysilio­gogo­goch #TaronEgerton @taronegerton.bsky.social

SERVANT: But yet, madam⁠— CLEOPATRA: I do not like “but yet,” it does allay The good precedence; fie upon “but yet”! “But yet” is as a jailer to bring forth Some monstrous malefactor. ANTONY & CLEOPATRA, 2.5 #ShakespeareSunday #ButYet

“…the great globe itself...” Shakespeare, THE TEMPEST, 4.1 @shakespearesglobe.bsky.social #ShakespearesGlobe #BookWormSat #WorldHeritageDay

You know sometimes he walks four hours together Here in the lobby. Polonius, Shakespeare, HAMLET, 2.2 #BookWormSat #Helsingør #Elsinore #WorldHeritageDay

“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty of the world.” ‘Anything can happen now that we’ve slid over this bridge,’ I thought; ‘anything at all….’ Fitzgerald, THE GREAT GATSBY #BookWormSat

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics.

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics @greatdetective.bsky.social #Poirot

I do not like the Tower of any place. Shakespeare, RICHARD III, 3.1 #BookWormSat #TowerofLondon #WhiteTower #PrincesintheTower #Architecture

PETRUCHIO: Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon! KATERINA: The moon! The sun—it is not moonlight now. P: I say it is the moon that shines so bright. K: I know it is the sun that shines so bright. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, 4.5 #Sun #Moon #AllStars

Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe. HENRY V, 4.Prologue #ShakespeareSunday

OWEN GLENDOWER: At my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes Of burning cressets. HOTSPUR: Why, so it would have done At the same season if your mother’s cat had But kitten’d, though yourself had never been born. HENRY IV, pt. 1, 3.1 #ShakespeareSunday #OG

Then when you come to Pluto’s region, I pray you deliver him this petition. TITUS ANDRONICUS, 4.3 #ShakespeareSunday #Pluto #DwarfPlanet

To the moon… LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST, 4.2 #ShakespeareSunday #TheHoneyMOONers #RalphKramden #AliceKramden

Heaven is here Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her, But Romeo may not. Shakespeare, ROMEO & JULIET, 3.3 #BookWormSat #dog #cat #mouse #banished

My salad days, When I was green in judgment… ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, 1.5 #ShakespeareSunday

Are you a god? Would you create me new? Transform me then, and to your pow’r I’ll yield. COMEDY OF ERRORS, 3.2 #ShakespeareSunday #DrWho

GHOST: I am thy father’s spirit, Doom’d for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confin’d to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purg’d away. Shakespeare, HAMLET, 1.5 #bookwormsat #purgatory

Ophelia says in HAMLET, “They say the owl was a baker’s daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be.” Some legends say that the baker’s daughter jeered at Jesus at the crucifixion and was changed into an owl. #FolkloreFriday #GoodFriday in #TrafalgarSquare wintershall.org.uk

One of my favorite stories about the 1969 Moon landing was from an archaeologist at Gault. He was a grad student and listened to the landing on his transistor radio while he excavated a Neanderthal site.