He looked on the lake, a swan glided by
I have been dedicating myself to recuperative and totally non-productive activities: I sat out in the sun, I read Rebecca Roanhorse's Race to the Sun (2020) and W. Bolingbroke Johnson's The Widening Stain (1941) and a selection of The Big Book of Reel Murders: Stories That Inspired Great Crime Films (2019), I saw my parents, I did impromptu astronomy, I baked a peach crumble with cherries. I slept ten hours last night, which means I have no idea if I'll sleep at all tonight, but it was a nice change of pace. I am feeling bitter about streaming services and missing the range and accessibility of libraries. Have some links.
1. Courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
handful_ofdust: British Pathé's "Waistcoat Club aka Waistcoats for Women" (1955). The narrator is a bit of a twerp, but the waistcoats of all genders are pretty sweet. "Jon Pertwee has a collection dating back three hundred years." I would expect nothing less of a Time Lord who owned an opera cape. Peter Cushing, by contrast, is obviously some kind of Element. thisbluespirit, is Palladium taken? I thought of Titanium first, but then I liked the scholar-association with Athene better. It is silvery, rare, and untarnishing.
2. I had never heard of The Duke (2020) before this review by the Guardian, but: "In an earlier era, the role of Kempton would have been played by Denholm Elliott or Alastair Sim." JUST STREAM IT SOMEWHERE I CAN SEE IT AND TAKE MY MONEY OKAY.
3. I am much less likely to see Hope Gap (2019), even though I enjoyed this interview with the writer-director and all three principals. I was especially struck by Josh O'Connor's comments about vulnerability and Bill Nighy's about gender.
4. Courtesy ofsilveradept: Amanda E. Herbert, "Treble Hearted': Queer Intimacies in Early Modern Britain." tl;dr seventeenth-century triad with a pair of siblings and a marriage as the hinge: "Constance and Katherine's own descriptions of the bonds that all three people shared make it clear that the marriage between Herbert and Katherine was not a coverup or a sham; rather, the three wrote of their bond as tripartite."
5. This is just a very nice post about pockets: "I made some trousers with unusual pockets, and I think they're good."
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handful_ofdust: British Pathé's "Waistcoat Club aka Waistcoats for Women" (1955). The narrator is a bit of a twerp, but the waistcoats of all genders are pretty sweet. "Jon Pertwee has a collection dating back three hundred years." I would expect nothing less of a Time Lord who owned an opera cape. Peter Cushing, by contrast, is obviously some kind of Element. thisbluespirit, is Palladium taken? I thought of Titanium first, but then I liked the scholar-association with Athene better. It is silvery, rare, and untarnishing.2. I had never heard of The Duke (2020) before this review by the Guardian, but: "In an earlier era, the role of Kempton would have been played by Denholm Elliott or Alastair Sim." JUST STREAM IT SOMEWHERE I CAN SEE IT AND TAKE MY MONEY OKAY.
3. I am much less likely to see Hope Gap (2019), even though I enjoyed this interview with the writer-director and all three principals. I was especially struck by Josh O'Connor's comments about vulnerability and Bill Nighy's about gender.
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silveradept: Amanda E. Herbert, "Treble Hearted': Queer Intimacies in Early Modern Britain." tl;dr seventeenth-century triad with a pair of siblings and a marriage as the hinge: "Constance and Katherine's own descriptions of the bonds that all three people shared make it clear that the marriage between Herbert and Katherine was not a coverup or a sham; rather, the three wrote of their bond as tripartite." 5. This is just a very nice post about pockets: "I made some trousers with unusual pockets, and I think they're good."
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I, living under a rock, had no idea she'd been partnered with Jon Pertwee.
(I appear to have seen her in an uncredited part in Alberto Cavalcanti's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947), but since I didn't notice or remember, I don't think it counts.)
If I'd been asked to design the Platonic ideal of a waistcoat club, I would have included Peter Cushing and Jon Pertwee, so this clip was amazingly gratifying.
I'm so glad!