Monday, June 30, 2025
You Bet!
I know what you're thinking: "HENRY VI, PART 1 has an owl in it and so does HENRY VI, PART 3, but aren't we skipping over something? Does HENRY VI, PART 2 have an owl in it?" You bet your ass it does! Pardon my language, Shakespeare! Of course, in Shakespeare's time, an ass was nothing but a donkey. I assume. Ha ha "assume," get it? Neither do I! Anyway, from an owl perspective, the three parts of HENRY VI are like the old shell game... if there was a pea under every shell! What, you don't know what the old shell game is? I can't help what you know or what you don't know. I'm not your mother! I remember when I was working on Julia Pott's television show SUMMER CAMP ISLAND and for some reason I brought up three-card monte - I'm sure it was very important to the story we were working on; either that or I was just babbling away as usual - and the person who was taking notes wrote down "Three-Card Mafia." She had led a blameless life! She never heard of three-card monte, and why should she? What is she, a carny? Nothing against carnies! What was my point? I can't remember. That maybe I mumble? Anyhow, "The time when screech owls cry and bandogs howl, and spirits walk and ghosts break up their graves..." Which reminds me that I want to look up possible relationships between HENRY VI, PART 2 and MACBETH. Which came first? And so on. There's some kind of overlap happening. One great advantage of being ignorant is you can get old like me and have a lot of things to find out, if you can work up the energy, which is doubtful. Like, the other day Dr. Theresa and I were taking a walk and I said, "What is sweat, anyway?"