10. Henry V
9. Winter's Tale
8. Macbeth
7. As You Like It
6. Hamlet
5. Midsummer Night's Dream
4. Much Ado About Nothing
3. Twelfth Night
2. King Lear
1. The Tempest
This omits some other faves, but I went for a standard Top Ten. :)
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Arguing with the author's decisions is kinda the point of these pieces. :) In this instance, the big criteria seems to be "plays that still speak to us today." Which is fair.) FWIW, here's my personal Top Ten, ranked according to the plays I most enjoy watching and nothing else: :) (1/2)
Let the rows over the positioning commerce! #ShakespeareBirthday
Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Milka Lolo.
His name was Johnny Marr, and he looked like – Johnny Marr.
Now reading: ‘Rendezvous in Black’, Cornell Woolrich, 1948. This description is not helpful,because now I'm picturing, uh, Johnny Marr.
🚀New Episode🚀
We go full-spoilers with @cjward.bsky.social and EVENT HORIZON: INFERNO #1 which lands in comic shops today from @idwpublishing.com. Real world fear is reflected all over this one giving us an excuse to plot our modes of dread combat. www.comicbookcouplescounseling.com/post/christi...
"Concerning disease and accidents: I freely grant the magnificent gains made in medical research. That is one thing that reconciles me to modern life."
—Robert E. Howard to H. P. Lovecraft, [c. Jan 1934], MF2.711
Director Natalie Erika James is tackling diet culture in the trailer for her latest film, SACCHARINE, which hits theaters next month.
Physicists think they've solved the muon mystery. Puzzling magnetic moment results were a fluke in calculation, not new physics, study finds. So no fifth force, but it's a very precise proof of the Standard Model. arstechnica.com/science/2026...
Book covers for four foreign editions of Valancourt Books titles
We love seeing our books appear in other countries! Here are some recent ones: Ken Greenhall's ELIZABETH (Portugal), Naomi A. Hintze's YOU'LL LIKE MY MOTHER & Robert Marasco's BURNT OFFERINGS (Spain), and Roy Fuller's FANTASY AND FUGUE (Italy). All, of course, still available in English on our site!
#comicskycoverartists 🐰🌷🥚
Day 22. Frank Cho
This is the variant cover i'm ordering to The Deadman #1
#Comicsky
We’ve got an exclusive look at the latest original series from IDW Dark OPERATION: IRON COFFIN. You’re not ready for Dracula’s World War II redemption tour.
A Man’s Obsession With the Game ‘Operation’ Leads to Tragedy in a Surreal Saturday Night Live UK Sketch laughingsquid.com/real-life-op...
RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."
Translation: Trump is mathematically innumerate.
Many people do not appreciate how easy it can be to fall into weebness by reading about historical weebs like Lafcadio Hearn and H. P. Lovecraft. I myself once accidentally converted someone by lending them a copy of KIPLING'S JAPAN.
Vibrant Sea Creatures Spring to Life in Lisa Stevens’ Textured Sculptures www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/04/lisa...
Happy Earth Day.
Thinking about that got me thinking of preventing forest fires.
Smokey the Bear
1964 reprint of the 1959 comic by Dell The True Story of Smokey the Bear
1967 Ideal Toys Smokey
1983 Dakin Smokey the Bear doll.
All from my maternal grandmother who collected Smokey the Bear.
NEON's LEVITICUS looks like a queer IT FOLLOWS with added real-life horror. Watch the first trailer within.
Sam Reid is rocking out as The Vampire Lestat in the trailer for Season 3 of AMC's hit series INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE.
New court ruling blocks many of the government's anti-renewable policies arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
A REVERSE JAM BY A 41 YEAR OLD LEBRON?????
The cover for William Hjortsberg's "Matieres Grisis"
The cover for William Hjortsberg's "Alp"
The cover for James Corbett's "The Hound of Death"
The cover for James Corbett's "The Air Killer"
William Hjortsberg sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hjorts... died and James Corbett sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/corbet... was born on this day, so here's some of their cover art (Artist: Wojtek Siudmak, Paul Bacon, [couldn't identify] and E Sears):
LUTNICK: It is outrageous that Canada will not put US spirits on the shelf. It is insulting and disrespectful to America
SHAHEEN: They won't do it because of the insults from this president and comments like yours
Social media is the place where folks who haven’t published anything share strong opinions about publishing, writers without an agent tell you all about working with agents, AI sloppers demand to be called authors, and writers who can’t write tell you editors are the enemy.
Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
By NickCharge
