This is yet another excerpt, a review of a performance called Hamlet: first cut. This is one of the worst reviews I have written.

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Once again, I have provided an entry from the journal I kept during my trip to London, England. Unlike my previous entries, this one is presented in full, but there is a rather annoying and repeated error I have corrected from the original text. Because the Museum was referred the “Soane’s Museum”, I was under the impression it was named after “John Soanes” and not “John Soane.” Please note that all other grammatical or factual errors will remain as they were originally in the handwritten journal.

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When I was much younger, in my late childhood and early teenage years, I used to ride in my grandfather’s car to and from church. My grandmother would drive the car, and almost always, the bulk of the route to church consisted of driving down Penn Avenue. At times, though, the route home would take a different path, down that of Bennett Street in the Homewood section of Pittsburgh.

I rode down this street on countless occassions aside from the trips from church, but a sight that always mesmerized me was that of three identical brick edifices, each with a name on the front of it. I always wondered why these triple buildings were created in this fashion, as well as the significance of the names that were chosen.

In the present day, not only are the buildings abandoned, but only two of the three remain. Worse yet, while the buildings with the labels “Syria” and “Kismet” are still standing, I cannot remember the name of the third one that is no longer present. A glance at an old map displays the name “Irona,” but I cannot remember if that this was the appellation of lost sister structure or not. The condition of the buildings and the absence of the name in my mind are a precursor to oblivion. Despite how much at the time of my witness, I cherished the presence and mystery of those three buildings, it is only the memory of my wonder and my discarded desire that now remains.

In a previous entry, I noted the impenetrable barrier between me and any readers who wanted to comment on my entries. While I still believe I am the only human who is actually reading these words, I have decided to challenge this belief by allowing anyone who would want to comment on my entries a means of doing so. If you are a reader who wants to comment on this blog, simply send me a message at the following e-mail address:

I will review your request, then approve, deny, or table it indefinitely. I will only contact you if I do approve your request.

I fully expect this e-mail address to be overrun with spam. So I please ask that any and all comments about my entries themselves be made from the accounts I create, and not sent to the e-mail address itself. Thank you.

While I value my privacy as much as many of my peers do, I am fully aware that it would not take very long for a savvy Web user to uncover many aspects about me that I would rather not advertise. In light of this I have decided to add a few links that would probably make me more vulnerable to those with malicious intent, but hopefully more available to those with munificent tendencies as well.

The following entry from my journal contains a review of a production of William’s Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Even more than my previous words, this review is quite inaccurate. Nevertheless, I include it for completion’s sake.

I must also add that I have since writing this review have read the The Merchant of Venice, and I cringe at the ill-formed opinions and untruthful words I wrote in ignorance.

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The following “excerpt” from the journal I kept during my trip to London in 2000 is actually a rather long entry. This was my entry following my visit to the Millennium Dome. I have kept all grammatical and spelling errors in tact.

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Given the extraneous commentary within my words and length of this entry, the text I present will probably be the most abridged so far of the excepts. However, all errata (and ignorance) within the words will remain.

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Once again, I have nothing to write, but I wanted to post something to make sure that this blog is working properly.

Although there are posts that I have in mind, there is nothing to write about for the time being. Life goes on.