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7-28-2023 Daily Thread

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Well, tonight we’re going out with some friends to drink wine and watch Much Ado About Nothing at the Houston Shakespeare Festival at Miller Outdoor Theater. As such, I thought I’d list my Top Five Favorite Shakespeare Film Adaptations:

#1 – Much Ado About Nothing (1993), starring Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson
#2 – Macbeth (2015), starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard
#3 – Henry V (2012), from BBC’s The Hollow Crown, starring Tom Hiddleston
#4 – Hamlet (1990), starring Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, and Helena Bonham Carter
#5 – Coriolanus (2011), starring Ralph Fiennes and Gerard Butler

On a related note, here’s an old Andy Griffith comedy bit about Romeo & Juliet:

7-24-2023 Daily Thread

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The Tennessee Titans and the ghost of Bud Adams can go f@#% themselves.

But on a brighter note, training camp starts this week! So here’s a hype video:

7-21-2013 Daily Thread

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Hey, happy Legal Drinking Age Day, everyone! In honor of this obviously well-known holiday, I’d like to tell you all the story of my first real drink: When I turned 21, my parents drove up to Texas A&M to take me to dinner, and my dad brought a bottle of scotch with him. You see, my grandpa (my dad’s dad) died when I was only four years old, and when he died someone in the family bought that scotch. Also, the same week I turned 21, my grandpa would have turned 65. So that night, my dad and I opened up that bottle for the first time and drank to my grandpa.

And yes, I did wait until I was 21. Soooo… anyone else have a good first drink story?