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http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1660/05/21/ So into my naked bed1 and slept till 9 o’clock, and then John Goods waked me, [by] and by the captain’s boy brought me four barrels of Mallows oysters, which Captain Tatnell had sent me from Murlace.2
The weather foul all this day also.
After dinner, about writing one thing or other all day, and setting my papers in order, having been so long absent.
At night Mr. Pierce, Purser (the other Pierce and I having not spoken to one another since we fell out about Mr. Edward), and Mr. Cook sat with me in my cabin and supped with me, and then I went to bed.
By letters that came hither in my absence, I understand that the Parliament had ordered all persons to be secured, in order to a trial, that did sit as judges in the late King’s death, and all the officers too attending the Court.
Sir John Lenthall moving in the House, that all that had borne arms against the King should be exempted from pardon, he was called to the bar of the House, and after a severe reproof he was degraded his knighthood. At Court I find that all things grow high. The old clergy talk as being sure of their lands again, and laugh at the Presbytery; and it is believed that the sales of the King’s and Bishops’ lands will never be confirmed by Parliament, there being nothing now in any man’s, power to hinder them and the King from doing what they have a mind, but every body willing to submit to any thing.
We expect every day to have the King and Duke on board as soon as it is fair.
My Lord do nothing now, but offers all things to the pleasure of the Duke as Lord High Admiral. So that I am at a loss what to do. Footnotes
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This is a somewhat late use of an expression which was once universal. It was formerly the custom for both sexes to sleep in bed without any nightlinen.
Who sees his true love in her naked bed,
Teaching the sheets a whiter hue than white.
Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis.
Nares (“Glossary”) notes the expression so late as in the very odd novel by T. Amory, called “John Bunde,” where a young lady declares, after an alarm, “that she would never go into naked bed on board ship again.” Octavo edition, vol. i. p. 90. ↩
- Apparently Mallows stands for St. Malo and Murlace for Morlaise. ↩
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I HAVE SEEN SEASON EIGHT SUPERNATURAL AND IT WAS GLORIOUS.
now I want all my tumblr feeds back and I can't remember who they were. Though, not really looking forward to reading about all the things people didn't like. I always kind of feel sorry for people when they don't enjoy something that I think was just knocked out the ballpark - in this case, great plot arc, great acting, and relationship stuff that I would have thought both Destiel shippers and Wincest fans would be ecstatic about.
( a few pics of the last few secondsCollapse )
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I hear that everything's up to date in Kansas City, so I'll be headed that way tomorrow to see for myself.
ConQuest beckons; KC's annual regional convention, one of the best. Should be a good time. Patrick Rothfuss is GOH, John Picacio will be there, along with Brad Denton, Caroline Spector, and all of my old KC friends and partners in crime. I'll be doing a reading, doing a panel, eating too much barbeque, drinking too much bheer.
And even before the con, we'll have the road trip. I will be hitting the road with my Aussie friends, and driving right through the heart of Tornado Alley, which should be an... ah... adventure. If you're in Oklahoma or Kansas and think you see me passing by, you may be right. The Big Well beckons... along with Dorothy's House, Pancake Boulevard, the Cosmodrome, and the Elevator of Terror (you can't make this stuff up).Current Mood:  busy |
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http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14942 Fraction kicked this interview with Mitch Hurwitz over to me last night, in which he discusses the series of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT he’s done at Netflix. As with Netflix’ previous two original offerings, all fifteen episodes of the series will be released for streaming simultaneously. Also, he knew he was getting all fifteen episodes up front.
And he gets into some interesting stuff about how that environment allowed him to structure the show in ways that were new for him:
Anyway, I started sketching it out, and I had this funny idea for Maeby. It doesn’t quite fit into the master family story, but it’s funny for Maeby, and I do have this funny bit for Tobias where he writes pop songs. He’s written a song called "I Kissed a Boy." I just had all these crazy notions, and suddenly I was overwhelmed by the task of squeezing all these unrelated stories into a movie that has a central plot.
Then I had this idea. "Well, what if there’s an anthology show?" I’ve been in TV for a long time, and one of the ideas that gets pitched a lot is the idea of an anthology show. Those really worked in the Fifties and Sixties with shows like The Twilight Zone, Route 66 and Alfred Hitchcock. It’s a different thing every week.
So I thought, "I might have an opportunity now because of what may or may not be an abiding interest in these characters. I could do an anthology series, like Maeby, episode 3 or George Michael, episode 5." I just loved this idea.
I was working on simultaneous storytelling – "This is what happens from 2006 to 2013." The characters are going to bump into each other. You gotta know that George Senior is going to run into Michael. You can’t just have George Senior doing his thing.
We ended up with an eight-hour movie of Arrested Development where the pieces do kind of come together. Not only was the show told out of sequence, it was shot out of sequence.
And, whether it’s occurred to him or not, he’s talking about big interleaved novelistic structure. Which, it seems to me, is entirely perfect for a release system where one can (if one’s blowing off work for the day) watch the whole damn thing in a single sitting. |
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http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14922 
We are currently arranging for a low-cost digital collection of the first fifty panels. We’ve also agreed to eventually produce a print edition (of more than the first fifty panels) with our friends at Image Comics. |
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 All power corrupts, but we need electricity.
At last, on my sixth try, I've read a Dianna Wynne Jones novel that isn't a love story. Is that why I didn't like it as much as the others? Not that I disliked it. It just didn't really capture my fancy, even as it kept me turning the pages to see what happened next.
It starts out feeling like a mundane story in which something decidedly odd pops up. The eponymous Goon, who is huge and apparently simple-minded, shows up at the Sykes household and gradually reveals that he's there on behalf of someone named Archer, who demands that Mr. Sykes write 2000 words for him. Nobody knows what this is about, and we're trying to figure out just what kind of person this weird Goon character is and why he is pestering a perfectly normal middle class family. Slowly we discover that we are in a fantasy novel, and magic begins to exert itself on and in the characters. Even more slowly we discover that some of the characters aren't what they at first seem to be, and we are deep in a conflict between seven magical siblings who want to rule the world.
What works here, as in all of the DWJ books I've read, is the very organic sense of magic and the fantastic that she has. The magic siblings are said to "farm" various aspects of the world -- transport, power, sewers -- and this very odd use of the word "farm" gives a tantalizing feel for a unique approach to how magic is wielded. Jones ties magic to writing, and makes the conceit fresh and funny. Once again she gives us a large cast of well-delineated characters who clash and collaborate, cower and charge and change their minds. The problems of the adolescent protagonist, Howard, are a mixture of the commonplace (bullies, violin practice) and the bizarre, and Jones' sympathy for the trials of growing up are a strong anchor for the more fantastical issues that arise. Her sense of humor and snappy dialogue are as good as ever.
In fact, I'm not quite sure why Archer's Goon felt slight to me. It could be because it's pitched more to the comedy end of the story spectrum, and it just doesn't feel as serious as even something like Howl's Moving Castle, where Sophie's vulnerability and separation from her family is constantly an issue. Archer's Goon has no real sense of danger, perhaps. It felt as though it were aimed at a younger reader than the other ones I've read.
 cpt_buggernuts says BBC did an adaptation of this for TV back in the '80s. That would be fun to see, although she went on to say, "given it probably had a budget of about forty pence I can't imagine that it'll have aged well." Anybody else seen it?
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http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05212013.shtml Just a reminder - if you use Google Reader to follow your RSS feeds, it's going to go offline soon so you may want to look for a replacement. |
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