Month: April 2014
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Happy Easter!
To all the Christians out there who will be celebrating Easter this weekend, I wish you a happy and blessed one! I’ll be attending a sunrise service by the beach, followed by breakfast. Then I’ll be coming home to bake a pineapple-glazed, black forest ham for Easter Sunday dinner with the family. Enjoy!
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The Perfect Easter Weekend Movie: Ben Hur
If you are looking for a meaningful and extremely compelling epic story for the Easter weekend, you could do no better than to revisit one of the classic, historical epics of the golden age of Hollywood: Ben Hur. Ben Hur has become one of my favorite movies of all time. It’s story is timeless. Boyhood…
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Is softball becoming too soft? Or is it just life?
At the risk of sounding like an old person yearning for the nostalgic past, sometime’s I feel like an old person yearning for the nostalgic past. Is softball too frightening now that we must completely bend the rules in order to keep the kids safe from “boo-boos”? First, it started with the orange first base.…
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Penang vs. Kuala Lumpur
I was in KL over the weekend at a softball tournament. Every trip to KL convinces me how happy I am to be living in Penang. Why? OK, let’s play the Penang vs. KL comparison game: Urban sprawl: Advantage KL Cool Twin Towers: AdvantageKL Time spent in traffic: Advantage KL Arts & Entertainment: Advantage KL…
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Know Your History: 1896 Plessy v. Furgeson
In 1892, Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting on a white rail car. Homer was extremely light skinned and could have passed for a white person, but under the law of Louisiana, he wasn’t ‘white enough’. The case, which eventually made it to the Supreme Court in 1896, centered around Louisiana’s segregation laws and whether…
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Boardwalk Melody: The Story
My original musical, “Boardwalk Melody”, which I wrote with several students, is currently in production and will debut at PenangPAC on May 23. I thought I would outline the story behind the musical. It’s going to be great fun! Fisherman Frederick has been chasing Minnie, the ice cream lady, for the last thirty years. She…
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Review: Hamlet A Performance Lecture by Shakespeare Demystified
I caught the opening night of Hamlet: A Performance Lecture by Shakespeare Demystified at penangpac this evening, and I highly recommend it. They will be in town until Sunday and then will be heading to KLPAC later in the month. The Shakespeare Demystified Troupe never seems to disappoint, mixing lecture style analysis in-between pertinent scenes…
Author Mark W Sasse 