I had a dream. Not in that world-changing, bridging-racial-divides way, but a literal dream. One that I remembered when I woke up this morning. And, much like the other dream I remembered recently, this one involves a celebrity: Jude Law. Yeah, we were just hanging out. Whatever. No biggie. We went to a modified dream-world version of the ISAT part of JMU's campus. Afterward, we headed back to my apartment in downtown New York. (Apparently ISAT is in the lower east side of Manhattan. Who knew?) Anyway, somehow -- maybe because I prompted him, I don't know -- Jude started reciting parts of Hamlet. Except that he couldn't remember anything past the first two lines of this one soliloquy. So I grabbed my Bevington-edited The Complete Works of William Shakespeare and flipped through it. However, the inside of the text was plagued with large, colorful advertisements. It was like looking at a teen magazine. One page would be an excerpt from, say, Macbeth, then, on the other, was a huge ad for (I think one of them might have been) Super Mario Brothers. Interpretations I derive from this: rampant marketing/commercialism; Shakespeare is somehow a sell-out; Brian needs to stop taking drugs before going to bed. Regardless, I finally found the passage Jude Law needed. He read it over. I said, "Good thing you're done performing Hamlet, huh?" And he said, "Tonight's the last show." Then he had to leave to get to the theater in time. In all this bustle, I didn't realize until after he left that he had stolen my Shakespeare book. Moral: Don't hand Jude Law books. He will steal them.

Did you catch Thursday's episode of The Daily Show? If not, this was a great bit:

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I really do not like Glenn Beck. I don't understand how he gets away with the kind of propaganda shit he gets away with.