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All the world's a stage.

Learn your blocking and you won't get lost. But if you're improvising, well, you might find great things, but if your partners are trying to do a play, you might be making them get lost.... I think this metaphor works. You really just gotta agree with the people around you on what show you're doing.

That applies in stage and life, I feel. Could wars and armed conflict be whittled down to that basic root? I think that they could be.

Abso lute ly (Shakespeare talked a lot about lutes....)

Portia de Rossi!

Speaking of Portia de Rossi, I just watched her the other day on Santa Clarita Diet. She looks more like Ellen now.