of matters light and dark
Quote of the day: "If you could make the public understand that my father was not a jolly, jocose gentleman walking about the earth with a plum pudding and a bowl of punch you would greatly oblige me." Kate Perugini, nee Kate Dickens, to George Bernard Shaw about her father Charles.
Moving on to comics: Wil Wheaton blogs about favourite comic collections. His include Neil Gaiman's 1602 and Joss Whedon's run of Astonishing X-Men.
Fringe: Double Helix is an amazing look at Walter Bishop, vid-wise.
Back when an edition of Ted Hughes' Letters was published, I wrote a review. At the time, the BBC did a program with Richard Armitage reading excerpts of said letters, and he did a superb job. (Both because he's a good actor and because of their shared Yorkshire background, I thought the choice of him reading Ted Hughes was inspired.) What I only just found out is that you can download parts of the program at Armitage's website. The available excerpts include the letters he wrote to his sister Olwyn and to Sylvia Plath's mother Aurelia shortly after Sylvia killed herself. Someone put them on YouTube using footage of the film Sylvia. (I wasn't keen on said movie for various reasons, but okay.) But listen to Armitage's voice and the attempt by a young Hughes to phrase the unspeakable:
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Moving on to comics: Wil Wheaton blogs about favourite comic collections. His include Neil Gaiman's 1602 and Joss Whedon's run of Astonishing X-Men.
Fringe: Double Helix is an amazing look at Walter Bishop, vid-wise.
Back when an edition of Ted Hughes' Letters was published, I wrote a review. At the time, the BBC did a program with Richard Armitage reading excerpts of said letters, and he did a superb job. (Both because he's a good actor and because of their shared Yorkshire background, I thought the choice of him reading Ted Hughes was inspired.) What I only just found out is that you can download parts of the program at Armitage's website. The available excerpts include the letters he wrote to his sister Olwyn and to Sylvia Plath's mother Aurelia shortly after Sylvia killed herself. Someone put them on YouTube using footage of the film Sylvia. (I wasn't keen on said movie for various reasons, but okay.) But listen to Armitage's voice and the attempt by a young Hughes to phrase the unspeakable:
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