kristy bowen | writer & book artist

Since schedules can be weird, we have been celebrating Valentine's Day all this week with various endeavors and outings, including some plays and other entertainments ( Hamnet at Chicago Shakespeare, a rousingly comic and drunken rendition of Romeo & Juliet using dildos instead of swords. and an odd all over the place production of Strindberg's Miss Julie  (that I am not quite sure worked se well) down at U of C.  We also had a couple favorite restaurant meals and a visit to the Art Institute in which I took many pictures of paintings I wanted to think about and see more.  Tonight, it's J's usual karaoke gig down along the river, but beforehand, we gonna take in the new Wuthering Heights movie that I am excited to see in all its apparent bastardization (b/c who does not love a little literary bastardization of classics, am I right?) WH was once my favorite novel, though it was replaced by Jean Rhys'  Wide Sargasso Sea in grad school, along with a subsequen...