What's the Story, Wishbone? Volume One.
Please watch this first to get in the wish-zone.

This week: "Shakespaw" featuring Shapes and Sizes
David tries to remain calm at the center of the storm when problems plague his direction of "The Tempest," by William Shakespeare. In the play, Prospero directs the events on an island assisted by Wishbone as Ariel.

This was an unusual Wishbone - "The Tempest" doesn't have any obvious contemporary-sitcom-ish plot reflective of the original - so the writers just had David direct "The Tempest." This can initially come off as a transparently lazy cop-out by Mo Rocca (yes, Mo Rocca wrote Wishbone) but he made sure that it had all the drama of Shylock's version. David's self-confidence issues really take center stage. Wishbone's running around as always making snarky comments and being unproductive, and in the Shakespeare he plays an androgynous dog-spirit that can teleport. God bless American public television.

Equally sexless, Asthmatic Kitty's Shapes and Sizes is a wonderful indie-rock four-piece from British Columbia. Caila Thompson-Hannant and Rory Seydel split vocal duties down the middle, so there's really no subconcscious gender-identification. Caila being the dramatic and lovable one, Rory a little more matter-of-factly. Their songs are long, busy, and sometimes duplicitous - they are apt to turn a track on its heels and send it in the other direction. The droning of woodwinds add that little bit o' depth and intrigue. Imagine that Elf Power was thrown into a Fiery Furnace. They swung through Rochester in March, so they probably won't be here for another fourteen years, but hey, a kid can dream.

Here they are with their own little two-act number about trouble surrounded by water on all sides, Island's Gone Bad.