Matt Hulan actually thwacked me with a meme stick a few days ago; here’s the response. Grab the nearest book. Open it to page 161. Find the fifth sentence Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with…
Well, and this is the part where I just casually happen to mention that tonight we open, in what is clearly a transparent attempt to milk y’all for best wishes and break-a-legs. Pathetic, but there it is. We Theeyater folk…
Toward the end of John Scalzi’s rather witty and sensible (to my mind) rant about the Purity Balls where Daddy’s Little Girl pledges to remain Sexually Pure and Daddy pledges to beat the crap out of anyone who looks at…
Well, and the fact that Your Humble Blogger has taken a nice long sabbatical from analyzing political rhetoric must be nice and obvious to Gentle Readers all, and perhaps it’s as much of a relief to y’all as it is…
I have mentioned in this Tohu Bohu that Prince of Foxes is one of my comfort books, a book that provides a warm and familiar pleasure without requiring very hard work. One nice thing about such a book is that…
Well, and there are roughly (and inaccurately) speaking, two major schools of thought in America about acting. I tend to call them the English and the Russian school; they are also called Technique and Method, and various other names as…
This Tohu Bohu has been pretty near dormant for a while, Gentle Readers, and it will be a couple of weeks, at a guess, before Your Humble Blogger gets back to rambling at the usual rate. I’ve been busy, almost…
The thing that I really noticed this time through Gaudy Night was the ontologically transformative power of The First Time. The world, you see, is divided into Women who have Done It, and Wirgins. And never the twain shall meet….
One odd thing about the Vicomte de Valmont is that, for a seducer, he doesn’t seem to actually like sex very much. There are a couple of places where he mentions that he doesn’t get much pleasure from it anymore,…
I really should just get rid of our copy of Bellwether. There are bits of it that I do find very funny, and I think it’s a well-crafted book in a variety of ways, but boy is it depressing. I…