Every once in a while, I get the urge to daydream about having a superpower. And I succumb to that urge, primarily because I'm kind of hoping someday it comes true. I could totally use a superpower. But anyway, the superpower I would want is to snap my fingers and make an entire group of people disappear forever.

Namely, stupid people. A snap of my fingers and there's no one asking me for change, there is no one asking me about the definition of a 6th grade word, and there's no more drama. 

Now I'm not talking about people who disagree with me. Because THAT's just stupid. The world would be a very boring place if everyone agreed with me, albeit a more developed one. I'm all for people having opinions that differ from mine in the same way that I'm all for people having dogs. Just as long as:

"A Midsummer's Day in Monroeville"

 by: Johnathan Hales

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On July 30^th, 31^st and August 1^st, the “Poor Yorick's Players” theater troupe put on performances of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night's Dream” at the Tall Trees Amphitheater in the Monroeville Community Park. I had the distinct privilege of being a guest at this performance, and got to observe a theater troupe which CLEARLY loved every aspect of what they did. The enthusiasm brought by each and every player was infectious and I was giddy as a schoolboy and anxiously awaiting 7pm.

“A Midsummer Night's Dream” is one of Shakespeare’s fairly early works, having been written roughly between 1594 and 1596, and is one of the more performed plays around the world. As director Shaun Starke puts it, the play itself comically explores “magic and the good and evil found therein. Is manipulation a good thing, or should we just leave things to fall out as they should? You need a little magic to help the world move around, I think.”