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Welcome to the neighborhood, quietly: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/21/arts/television/21welc.html
And from the Why Didn't I Think of That department: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/22/books/review/22kamp.html
Meanwhile, off to work and rehearsal. I finally, finally no longer have a fever, but the coughing SUCKS and I still have nearly no sense of smell or taste (which means I'm eating really strangely).
Meanwhile, major Descensus progress which seems to indicate this is the How to Get Drunk Like a Wizard chapter. Yes, more than the other chapters. I mean, it's the chapter in which brandy provokes the question, "is that made with real Goblins?"
Things I intend to write about later:
1. The BBC radio play of HDM which merits comment both in terms of the structural contortions they went through with the story to make it work, and because the performances highlight something in the tale that doesn't actually quite come across in the books and deeply moved me.
2. How unnecessary the way we live now is. Which doesn't mean I'm longing for a simplier, 1950s-esque, more innocent time. In fact, I hate this idea that a dislike of the modern world is rooted in a desire for a return to innocence. People were just as damn corrupt, sinful, whatever in earlier times, just more originally and organically so, since there wasn't mass media to dispense guides on Petty Shortcuts to Hell. Most of this paragraph is a digression from what I'l actually write about, but one that amuses me.
And from the Why Didn't I Think of That department: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/22/books/review/22kamp.html
Meanwhile, off to work and rehearsal. I finally, finally no longer have a fever, but the coughing SUCKS and I still have nearly no sense of smell or taste (which means I'm eating really strangely).
Meanwhile, major Descensus progress which seems to indicate this is the How to Get Drunk Like a Wizard chapter. Yes, more than the other chapters. I mean, it's the chapter in which brandy provokes the question, "is that made with real Goblins?"
Things I intend to write about later:
1. The BBC radio play of HDM which merits comment both in terms of the structural contortions they went through with the story to make it work, and because the performances highlight something in the tale that doesn't actually quite come across in the books and deeply moved me.
2. How unnecessary the way we live now is. Which doesn't mean I'm longing for a simplier, 1950s-esque, more innocent time. In fact, I hate this idea that a dislike of the modern world is rooted in a desire for a return to innocence. People were just as damn corrupt, sinful, whatever in earlier times, just more originally and organically so, since there wasn't mass media to dispense guides on Petty Shortcuts to Hell. Most of this paragraph is a digression from what I'l actually write about, but one that amuses me.
