Rumors of "DS nuts" are greatly exaggerated. Do they exist? Probably. But I've attended many Fests, and I've yet to actually encounter one of them.

I'm having a hard time choosing my favorite nut -- the fan who told me she had a room in her house painted the color of David Selby's eyes, the fan who told me she had the words of "Shadows of the Night" painted on her bedroom wall, or the fan who tried to follow me into my hotel room because he apparently thought it was one of the actor's trysting spots.

I guess the worst is the one who has 50 MB web site on David Selby. Talk about needing to get a life! 

Looking at that site makes me think of the dull, dry, boring profs who tried to teach Shakespeare when I was in college.

Can't say as I had the same complaint about my undergrad Shakespeare prof who had been teaching at the university since my mother was there.

If your paper sucked, he took it out in his back yard and had target practice with his shotgun, which meant that everyone in the class knew if you'd written a bad paper because when he returned them you could see the bullet holes.

On one of the last days of class, when we were doing MacBeth, he got this wicked gleam in his eyes as he asked 3 girls to come down to the front of the room to do one of the witches' scenes. He placed the trash can on the desk and told them that was their cauldron.

They started reading the scene from their trusty Folger paperback editions, and we watched as the prof suddenly flipped a match into the air and into the trash can, where he had apparently placed firecrackers or some other sort of pyrotechnic device.

Nobody was hurt, but the smoke got caught up in the building's ventilation system. (I later found out about this from my roommate who had a class in a room directly above ours. She said they could see smoke.) So he calmly continued class and we were having a lovely time when we heard sirens approaching the building. It was the university police. The foreign language dept secretary had phoned them.

The officers knocked on the classroom door, and the prof told them he was teaching a class that they would have to see him later in his office. He told them that he was crazy and that they could contact the English Department for confirmation. Then he shut the door and locked it. 

They waited around in the hallway for him after class. Nothing ever came of it.

Boring Shakespeare professor? Hardly.

the judge adjourned his case for a year, which means if he stays out of trouble for that long his record will be expunged. 

He's apt to have longer lasting consequences for filming some of those Dell spots during a Screen Actors Guild strike.

Dude! You're getting blacklisted. 

Everybody try to contain your excitement. 

Please let Sheenasma and me know if an "Amanda Harris" happens to take any prizes at Westminster.

Additional dates have been added for performances of Final Assault. Performances will now be held April 10-12 and 17-19 at 8:00pm.

With the addition of another weekend of shows, please note that performances are no longer scheduled for April 9 or April 13.

Another point requiring clarification: The original media releases indicated that David would be co-producing and co-directing with Jamison Selby and David Wohl. That is incorrect. David is the writer, Jamison Selby is the director, and David Wohl is the production coordinator.

And I am mistress of an evil web empire.

Hmm . . . ok, so I don't have it all figured out. I've been happily using the forum without a problem since I reconfigured Norton Personal Firewall until a few minutes ago when I got this message trying to access the home page:

Untrapped Error:
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The only way I managed to get in here was by clicking on New Postings and doing a search for this board. Home doesn't work for me again.

Actually, according to some reports, El's girlfriend was indeed sitting on the toilet when she found the King, dethroned.

LOL

It comes as news to most of my students that he died in the throne room anyway, so none have quibbled over that point yet.