I’m really looking forward to August 2nd because, one way or another, the whole debt ceiling thing comes to a head and then news sites will have to find something else to talk about. Really, I know it’s important and all but it’s getting godawful boring.
Do people make fertilizer bombs because they just like to blow shit up?
O.K. Those were just a couple of random comments, now for tonight’s blog:
On the down side, I thought translating "star crossed" as "neštastny" was rather weak
As some of you know, I live in the coolest city on the planet. The beer is excellent, the women are beautiful, the music and art scene is active, public transportation is quite good and the ratio of park space to city space is as high as any city I’ve ever been to in my life.
There are places we take for granted which would be major tourist attractions in a lesser town. There’s one building I love pointing out to 1st time visitors, if we are walking along the Vltava late at night and look over, sort of in the lower left hand corner of Letna Park. All lit up, it looks kind of spectacular. I ask them what they think it is, because it looks like it might be a church or a monument of some kind. It’s a snack stand.
Anyway, a couple of nights ago we had a classic, only in Prague experience. In the summer, at the Castle, they have outdoor performances of Shakespearean plays and we went to see Romeo and Juliet. My wife got the tickets for free, from her job.
As we walked up the steps from Malostranska, we saw one couple very formally dressed and worried that we might be out of place. I’d put on a nice shirt and my cleanest jeans, but we were still pretty casual. Needn’t have worried.
Drinks and snacks were a bit overpriced, but they handed out blankets for free. That came in really handy when it started to rain. It only lasted about ten minutes and precisely nobody left.
It actually added to the experience. As the play progressed, and my mind wandered a bit, partly because it was in Czech and partly because, hey, it’s Romeo and Juliet – we already know the story- I watched the sky changing from evening cloudy to dark, the leaves above our head dancing in the breeze and then the raindrops, framed in the stage lighting. There are many beautiful, ornate theaters in Prague with gold ornamentation and giant chandeliers, but still…outdoor theater is the most beautiful theater in the world, because the theater is the world.
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