Moot Thoughts & Musings

Erica posted on her site about an all-nite Shakespeare read at Wellesley where they read the entire works of ol' Bill outloud non-stop until they hadn't gotten all the way through. At first it sounded like a pretty good idea, but then I got to wondering, how did CNN get the story? What kind of solipicistic student group would contact CNN to show them what a cool thing they did? We used to have Shakespeare reads at Cov all the time (or at least I was invited to them all the time). No they weren't 'read the oeuvres complets in one sitting' sessions, but nevertheless they were Shakespeare reads. I'll bet a bazillion liberal arts colleges have enthusiasts gathering around the fire on a winter's evening participating in the rites of the Anglophone's Homer. But really? Report it to CNN?? And then...they reported to the Guinness Book of World Records to see if they had made a world record. Now I think that's positively narcissicistic. Why can't they just read it, for crying out loud? It would've been bad enough if their student newspaper reported it, but CNN and Guinness?? I threw a rotten pumpkin off the Bluff in the middle of a foggy night once...can CNN please post a story about that?