Village Voices - We don't write papers, we build scrapbooks

I realize that I usually tend to look at some rather “unorthodox” topics in this column, but my Mother had always asked that I stop with the bathroom humor and prove to everyone that the education my parents paid for actually did some good.

So, in her honor, I think maybe it’s time we look into some deep and philosophical issues regarding the human condition.

Do you think that in ‘Hamlet,’ Shakespeare was exploring existentialism and projecting his own concerns about his role in the universe through the main character? I mean, it’s common knowledge that most writers project th...