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By now most people have heard about Orson Scott Card's latest descent into madness, the rewritten Hamlet. Unfunny business takes him on, and delights my Hamlet-loving soul with 'Versions of Hamlet that get the point better than Hamlet's Father': including the historical yakuza Japanese musical with the catchy 'To be or not to be' show stopper. 'Mata mata mata mata mondai da.'

(Runner up- the Animaniacs with translation by Dot. I would add the kids in Masked Detective who rewrite Hamlet as a murder mystery involving half a dozen other Shakespearian characters, but I'd have to roust out my volumes to remember who dunnit in the end.)

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[joasakura.livejournal.com]

I am now edified this morning by the Mondai Da song. it IS catchy!!

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

oh my ... my Hamlet loving sould is loving you for all those links ... *be right back* Squeee!

^_^ Thank you.

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! I read some of that thread ... Mr Card really?? Really?

I wonder if there is anywhere one can see/dl/whatever that Japanese play in full ...

Have A Monsterpiece Theatre (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcc44UYrECA) ^_^

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

and egads ... I knew there was a Saiyuki version too (http://andmydog.livejournal.com/96636.html) ...If you haven't seen it I hope you enjoy. ^_^

[unearthly-calm.livejournal.com]

Mata mata mata mata mondai da

Hahahaha!

Also, that Scott Lynch parody:

"We like chicks," yelled every man in Henry's army. "And only from the front, the way god intended!"

XD

Thanks for linking to this.

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

Dying.
DYING!

Why is there such a wide-spread return to ignorance happening in N.America? (I say N.America because where I am, I am starting to hear some of these ignorant ideas spreading.)