A couple things:

1. An accent only happens when someone is speaking a foreign language. A native English speaker talking in French has an accent. Dialects are variants of the speaker's native language. Southern American, Cockney, New York, RP, etc, are all dialects.

2. There's no such thing as a "British" dialect. What people mean when they say "British accent" is one of several regional dialects found in England. Within Britain there are Irish, Welsh, Scottish and English dialects.

Otherwise...great article!

I'm a sunny sneezer. When I was a young kid, I thought I was allergic to the Sun. Kinda terrified me, actually.

Poor little buggers...

And I agree with M&R.

I actually met Matthew outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC about a year ago. He had a table set up there where he was selling his sculptures and making new ones.

There were a lot of tables out there that day, but his was the only one that made me want to stop and have a conversation with the artist.

If you can afford to, buy some stuff from him. He's obviously talented, and he's a really nice guy.

Wow...as strange as it is to say this, that was one of the better performances of that soliloquy I've seen.

And I've seen some great ones.

I'm reminded of a song...

Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.