Much Ado About Lots of Things

Last Thursday Stephen talked about a lot of news makers. One of them was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad which in a way is sad. Mahmoud is on his way out as President of Iran, just when Stephen got the pronunciation of his name to finally roll off his tongue correctly. But it may be for the best since he was a controversial figure and there were some who did not like him.

Next was a small piece about Steve King. No, not Stephen King the guy who writes scary stuff. Steve King who is tired of chickens being able to stretch their legs.

Next in this apparent parade of scary dudes was Peter Brabeck who thinks that water should have a price on it so that people value it. This is great because he's at the head of Nestle and they have all kinds of bottle water that they sell. (Hey people, just go to the faucet, turn it on, and drink that water. It is so, so, so much cheaper and you're not adding to the pile of plastic water bottles everywhere. But, back to the show.)

Stephen's guest was Joss Whedon. He's now doing Shakespeare and it just might be quite popular. Stephen showed a clip from "Much Ado About Nothing" and it was quite funny in a Mr. Bean sort of way! So I think you should go see it. You can get culture and comedy at the same time.

So, a short posting, but I do want to point out how everything is connected. The first three news makers are of course controversial. The photo of Joss Whedon on that Wikipedia page shows that he has some bottled water sitting by him. Not sure of the brand, but still, it's a bottle of water. No judgement there, often people are provided bottled water when they are sitting at a table for interviews. And Shakespeare and Mr. Bean live in the same country, not all that far from Switzerland which is where Nestle's is located.

My hope is that soon Stephen will have William Shakespeare on the show to talk about how he originally planned "Much Ado About Nothing" to be filmed. It would be nice to get his perspective on that, just for some comparison and contrast.