I read "Waiting for Godot" today

[realisticphish]

interesting read, but i would definately like to see a live version, rather than just the script.

[RevolutionaryActs]

1. If it's "embrace your inner fish" then why is he hugging a crocodile?

:shrug:

[realisticphish]

3. and there we hit the important factor

It's both! :D

it's a Tiktaalik, a newly discovered fossil fish that is a bridge between ocean and land creatures. And the dude is Charles Darwin

[Hugin]

5. I brushed across an article about it somewhere...

meant to read about it, but, I was distracted.

Do you have a link?

[realisticphish]

8. here's a times article

but you can find it on pretty much every science blog
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/science/05cnd-fossil.html?ex=1144468800&en=c806762976abd604&ei=5087

[Hugin]

15. Cool...

Thanks!

and thanks for reminding me, I love stuff like this!

:7

[realisticphish]

17. if you've never been there

check out http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/

I go to pharyngula every day... one of my favorite blogs

[Hugin]

27. Great!

Yeah, it looks like some very interesting reading.

Thanks.

[RevolutionaryActs]

9. Ah ha!

This is a light bulb moment. :think:


:silly:

[realisticphish]

11. that's ok

i seem to have read somewhere that you were drinking :D

[RevolutionaryActs]

12. Maybe just a little?

:think: :evilgrin: :beer:

[realisticphish]

13. it's friday night

so go the distance :toast:

[RevolutionaryActs]

18. Except I have to work tomorrow.

x(

[realisticphish]

20. man

that sucks. at least you'll be buzzed, so the day will go faster :D

[RevolutionaryActs]

LOL!

:rofl:

[Hugin]

2. Did you read it while you were...

WAITING FOR GODOT?

*snort*

Heh...

uh...

[realisticphish]

6. Let's go

We can't
Why not?
We're waiting for Godot
Ah.

Seriously, they said that set of dialogue at LEAST 20 times :D

and actually, I read it while I was supposed to be working, so you could say I was waiting for my supervisor, so I could hide the book

[Xipe Totec]

4. Diddy! Didn't we do this yesterday?

[Hugin]

7. Do what?

What did we do yesterday?

[Xipe Totec]

14. I may be mistaken.

Let's stop talking for a minute, do you mind?

[Hugin]

16. Sure, let's just wait here.

But, what are we waiting for?

[realisticphish]

19. Look

it's lucky's hat

[Xipe Totec]

23. He can't think without his hat.

It's better to give it to him.

[realisticphish]

24. I won't give it to him

he kicked me :(

[Xipe Totec]

21. We're waiting for Godot.

You're not Mr. Godot, Sir?

[realisticphish]

22. No

that is Pozzo

[Xipe Totec]

25. Bozzo . . . Bozzo . . .

[Zomby Woof]

35. POZZO!

*cracks whip at Lucky*

[realisticphish]

10. Were we here yesterday?

I don't know. I think so. :shrug:

My boots are too tight

[EstimatedProphet]

26. In a live version, who would you cast as Godot?

[realisticphish]

29. Osama bin Laden

he's damn good at not being found :shrug:

[EstimatedProphet]

31. Good thought

I was thinking Olivier actually. Look what he did with not being in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

[realisticphish]

32. though i'm a fan

of Humphrey Bogart's non work in "Cheaper by the Dozen 2"

[Hugin]

28. An observation of mine once...

was that the TV show "X-files" had many similarities with
"Waiting for Godot".

Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of the show. But, it sometimes
struck me that way.

Am I wrong?

[realisticphish]

30. lol

no, it definately has similarities...

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

33. My wife was Pozzo in a student version at UConn - it was phenomenal

but I'm biased.

[gardenista]

37. I was too! Alright! I'm not the only female Pozzo!

Ours was an all-female student version at the University of Maryland.

It was a fun part.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

38. Hers had a male Estragon and a female Vladimir

and "a Boy" was a girl.

It was really wll done.

[gardenista]

40. sounds great. we were all women.

it was a good production, but our director was a little loony.

[Zomby Woof]

34. A year ago

I played Pozzo in a community theater version... we had great discussions among ourselves, led by the director, before rehearsals picked up steam. It's really a brilliant piece of angst. :-)

[realisticphish]

36. I'd love

to see a live-action. I think it would really put the piece into perspective

[Kat45]

39. I once saw a live version of the play.

It was played as comedy. This was at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge. Mark Linn-Baker played one of the pair. And though I didn't know him at the time, I believe Tony Shaloub was also in that production (as Pozzo).

[Orsino]

41. Reading a play is like...

...hearing other people f--k.

Sort of. Except that you can easily do it anytime you like in the privacy of your own home. Or something.