Hoisting a few with Will Shakespeare. Ask us anything.

[Aristus]

I'm introducing Will to vodka. He likes it, but he's a little mystified:

"Russians, eh? Those crazed Easterners, mate? Wear fur crowns and whatnot?"

We're cooking up this weekend's WSTFTD...

[Suich]

1. I'll hoist a glass of chardonnay with you, Aristus!

I just replaced the cord in one of my roll-up curtains...whew!

Mojitos and Gin/Tonic coming up tomorrow!

[Aristus]

2. To YOU, Suich!

Will says: "Lor' bless you, lass! Any mate of young Rob is a friend of my own, as well!"

He was trying to raise a toast to you, but he ended up spilling some of it on his head...

[pinboy3niner]

3. How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown...

[Aristus]

4. Well, he's had a few...

pinboy!...

[Incitatus]

5. What kind of vodka? nt

[Aristus]

6. I started with a shot of Stoly Vanilla.

Now I've got a shot of Pinnacle Pomegranate.

Yum!

[Denninmi]

7. A toast to you, then.

Ok, it's Dasani - almost as hard as I go now.

You have a lot of subject matter to pick from this week, I'm anxious to see what you go with.

[Aristus]

8. We have some good ideas...

Will says: " Denny, lad! Let me embrace you! God love you, mate!"

I think he's fixing to buy you a round...

Careful around him. His Sonnets were addressed to a man, after all...

[Denninmi]

9. Ah, Will is drunk already?

Seems Vodka is a mite stronger than the typical ale and hard cider Will is used to?

[Aristus]

11. He's always a little tiddly when we're together.

Comes from being brought up in the 16th Century, when everyone, including children, was half-crocked most of the time...

[Paulie]

10. Ask Sir William the difference between a fur crown and a bearskin hat?

Howith said vodka prepared? Neat, lime, cream and Kailua???

[Aristus]

12. I don't think they had bearskins back then.

I think they date from the late 18th Century.

I think he saw one once. You should have heard him: "God's wounds, mate! What is that on his head?!?

[Paulie]

14. Perhaps they were bearskin rugs?

More impressive than a lamp shade of the period.

[Denninmi]

13. So, does Will like salmon?

I had lunch the other day at a little bistro at Campus Martius plaza in Downtown Detroit - really terrific cedar-planked salmon with a sorrel cream sauce, served with buttered haricots vertes and crisp fingerling potatoes. Does Will like salmon? If so, does he enjoy the local wild-caught salmon?

[Aristus]

15. He's more familiar with brook trout.

I'll get him to try some sometime...

[struggle4progress]

16. How's Will getting along on that screenplay he promised for Finnegan's Wake?

[Aristus]

17. Writer's block.

He wrote a screenplay about that, too...

[struggle4progress]

18. Maybe he could get started by just ripping somebody else's idea: y'know,

start with somebody else's famous play, like Kiss me, Kate or like Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are dead, and then use it as a springboard for his own invention

[Aristus]

19. Yeah, he does that a lot...