Friday five
Dept of, The Bogglemen, En Bogglant Le Ya Ya: Isabelle visits a new age relationship therapist, played by Gérard Depardieu. WOT. I suppose I could think of more improbable casting in that sort of role, but still. WOT.
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Dept of, Not the only 70s Apocalyptic Scenario Flashbacker: One of the scariest episodes of the wonderful 1970s BBC sci-fi series Doomwatch featured a plastic-eating virus escaped from a laboratory (re this: Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles)
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Dept of, St Peter Don't You Call Me: Some of those disruptions will make it easier for people in the 50s and 60s to keep working, find jobs and start businesses. It's only further down that article that it registers that this isn't a universally wonderful thing.
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Dept of, This Re-enactment Exercise could end in tears: This year's Hardy Conference (eight days of it) offers 'a wide variety of excursions (walks, coach tours) and entertainments relating to the local context which Hardy’s work celebrates'. One must suppose walks upon which people get lost, coach tours that go to the wrong place, and just don't get me started on the entertainments (mumming plays?).
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Dept of, a Modified Yay: In Praise of Margery Sharp indicates that some of her hard to come by novels are finally being reprinted. However, it's a slightly mixed selection - some of those are fairly readily accessible as secondhand copies, e.g. Cluny Brown, I thought Something Light did not show Sharp at anything like her best (it was a bit in the category of, oops, muse sent the idea to the wrong address). But, still: some of those I have not got and might get. This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2754352.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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