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2/9/12

The Blog's the thing: Geoff Geeks out about Hamlet


Geoff Klock is my kind of nerd: he's very intelligent and he's equally obsessive about comics, TeeVee, movies and literature.  Rather, he appreciates comics, movies and TeeVee as literature. 


As a college professor he's been teaching Hamlet for some time -- so he set out to find allusions to the melancholy Dane in popular culture.  (I hepped him to half-a-dozen oddball examples from Bugs Bunny, Head of the Class, Student Bodies, Theater of Blood, Laverne & Shirley and more.) If you have any examples Geoff missed, I encourage you to contact him at his website.


Now watch his video below, it's a labor of love: