I’m not sure if Dombey and Son is considered early Dickens. I think it’s the earliest of his books that I like pretty much unreservedly. The early books—Pickwick, Oliver, NickNick, Curiosity Shop aren’t that great, although I am fond of…
Your Humble Blogger can’t help pointing to a story of a Jumbo romance. It seems that a wild bull elephant in musth broke into a travelling circus and fled with four beautiful and well-trained lady elephants. Three of the strays…
Perhaps here would be the appropriate place to attempt a comparison of the books and film adaptations of The Princess Bride and Stardust. Sadly, Your Humble Blogger hasn’t time, or really will. I am starting paid employment today, and although…
Just as a one-liner, Your Humble Blogger is fond of this press release from Rahm Emanuel (D-IL): Alberto Gonzales is the first Attorney General who thought the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth were three different things….
Last winter, Your Humble Blogger sort of defended Germaine Greer, well, not so much defended as failed-to-join-in-mockery-of, on the occasion of her being awarded a Golden Bull for blathering about art and the unsynthesised manifold. In today’s Guarniad, however, Ms….
Your Humble Blogger happened to see a backstage farce this summer. That play is new, funny, badly constructed, and in need of some serious tweaking. The audiences laughed a lot, which is a good sign, but the review was vicious,…
My Gracious Host listed a Top Six theatrical performances, which got me thinking. Sadly, I couldn’t come up with a Top Five, so here is a Top Four. Copenhagen, by Michael Frayn, with David Burke, Matthew Marsh and Sara Kestelman….
Your Humble Blogger read The Rebel Angels a couple of months ago in a volume that contained all three novels in the Cornish Trilogy. I didn’t blog it at the time, largely (to my recollection) because I hadn’t finished the…
I reread The Princess Bride just a bit before David Moles brought it up a couple of weeks ago in connection with the Stardust movie. I wasn’t aware of the connection people were making, or I don’t think I was,…
I’m not sure what to say about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. There were several very nice scenes, and some rather dull ones, and a couple of actively annoying ones). One of the things I particularly like about the…