Speaking of Jigsaw's Obsession with Dust...

After reposting my old Saw parody involving last year's Pledge Glass Box commercials, I found that one of the commercials I posted was no longer available. While doing a YouTube search for the commercial, I actually stumbled upon someone who took the idea and edited a Saw trailer together featuring the same premise:




Not bad, eh?

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Book Review: 27 Plays by Christopher Durang

Not being an avid reader or attender of stage plays, I had never heard of Christopher Durang until five or six years ago, when I stumbled upon a cable-produced adaptation of his play "Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You." Irreverent humor lampooning religious belief systems is a favorite genre of mine, along with gun-wielding nuns, so I wasted no time in picking up this collection of short plays.

While Durang is basically a humorist, many of his plays involve the lampooning of other plays. This can be a detriment to a reader who, like me, is unable to pick out the subtle stabs at the set design and dialog patterns of other well known playwrites. But it is a minor stumbling block, and not a mjor obstacle to enjoy Durang's offbeat sense of humor.

If you aren't hip to the stage scene, but still enjoy humor with an edge, do what I did. Pick up this collection for "Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You", then peruse the rest with an open mind.