Bikini Masterpiece Theatre

In efforts to keep things light, I'm passing along press releases that never should have made it to me. I get a lot of these, but most of them have to do with virtual worlds or at least something kind of like that. Then I get weird ones, like the guy with MS who is auctioning off the right to taser him to raise money for MSExtreme.org. But then I got this: "Bikini Masterpiece Theater, a new Web channel with no crying, no hugging, no learning -- just fun."

"Bikini Masterpiece Theater is THE online place for titillating, humorous, irreverent entertainment for guys. Each of the seven interactive theaters has a different theme -- but the one constant is girls in bikinis performing lines from Shakespeare, telling jokes and storytelling. Vaudeville with a Web 2.0 twist, the theaters are interactive and include polls, ratings, and games."

I'm not sure how they knew I was tired of crying and hugging in my Shakespeare, but I do know that I have a special fondness for Nikki's reading from Richard II: "O, who can hold a fire in his hand / By thinking on the... frosty... Cock-us?"

On a more serious note, here's where I owned The Economist.