What? Blank Verse Blog Week's coming soon? Egads!

Next Sunday begins Blank Verse Blog Week! I can't really explain it any better than I did the first time it happened in 2003, so I'll just reprint that.

Behold the date: of April, twenty-third.
A day renowned in literary life --
Or literary death, I might have said.
For Shakespeare, glorious Bard of Avon's shore;
And Wordsworth, poet of a later age;
Cervantes too, the master-wit of Spain --
All on this day in April met their ends.
The Spanish call it "Books and Lovers Day,"
On which the maids and men, in pleasant sport,
Exchange both books and roses with their friends
(Or lovers, as the holiday declares) --
A practice much worth following, I think.

But we, we scribblers of the wired age,
What can we do to honor poets past?
jadelennox, also cnoocy have declared:
Let's write our blogs in blank verse for a week!
The week containing April twenty-third,
To honor Shakespeare's life and works of art,
Let all your blogs be writ in iambs five
(Per line, that is). You needn't write in rhyme,
For blank verse needs no corresponding sounds --
'Tis meter only makes it what it is.
A FAQ is here if details you need more.
Please spread the word throughout livejournal's land!

Wordplay sighting

From boston.com's preview of the Boston Independent Film Festival:

"Carrying on the festival's exile theme are two oddly complementary documentaries: ''Wordplay," an engaging look at crossword puzzles, and ''Infamy," an in-your-face visit with graffiti artists.
''Wordplay" follows the crossword world's elite, Patrick Creadon's film intercuts contestants' preparations for the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament with interviews of celebrity crossword fans -- Jon Stewart, Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, and Bill Clinton. It might sound dull, but by the climax, ''Wordplay" has built up tension as gripping as any come-from-behind basketball drama."

Random thought.

I think this LJ needs a real name, instead of just "Kath/Kat/Saxifrage's Journal."

I'm open to suggestions.