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She pawned my best jacket and she lost the ticket
I still aten't dead, but this last week has made it kind of hard to tell. Have some links.
1. I missed International Non-Binary People's Day until I was told about it, but I really appreciate this contribution from Popeye.
2. I hope this installment of Existential Comics ran for the Fourth of July: "Fireworks and a Theory of Language."
3. I will always think of it as The Magic Summer, since it was under that title that I encountered the copy I read to pieces as a child, but I am very glad to see this reprint of Noel Streatfeild's The Growing Summer (1966). It was my first exposure to several pieces of poetry, most memorably Kipling's "Our Fathers of Old." I just learned there was a 1968 TV serial starring Wendy Hiller as Great-Aunt Dymphna. I imagine it doesn't survive.
I know I noticed him first with Foreign Correspondent (1940), but I have been unable to figure out where I first saw Herbert Marshall. I had no idea he'd hosted a 1941 episode of The Jack Benny Program, including a burlesque of The Letter (1940). I'm charmed.
1. I missed International Non-Binary People's Day until I was told about it, but I really appreciate this contribution from Popeye.
2. I hope this installment of Existential Comics ran for the Fourth of July: "Fireworks and a Theory of Language."
3. I will always think of it as The Magic Summer, since it was under that title that I encountered the copy I read to pieces as a child, but I am very glad to see this reprint of Noel Streatfeild's The Growing Summer (1966). It was my first exposure to several pieces of poetry, most memorably Kipling's "Our Fathers of Old." I just learned there was a 1968 TV serial starring Wendy Hiller as Great-Aunt Dymphna. I imagine it doesn't survive.
I know I noticed him first with Foreign Correspondent (1940), but I have been unable to figure out where I first saw Herbert Marshall. I had no idea he'd hosted a 1941 episode of The Jack Benny Program, including a burlesque of The Letter (1940). I'm charmed.
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. . . If he's in The Fly, that's almost certainly where I first saw him, too, but I had totally forgotten.
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I never remember that film is in color, either! I wonder if I could have seen it on a black-and-white TV, but then I have no idea whose.
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Help me out here, BFI!
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Nice! I was trying to remember if I'd read that one and maybe? I'm not sure, but I have a feeling that it was the one I was looking for when I started reading her, and then wound up reading all my library had, which probably never actually included The Growing Summer. (I was probably most fond of The Painted Garden, the one where they're making a film of The Secret Garden and the heroine is not really a good child actor, but is naturally very Mary-like!
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Everything I can remember about it, I recommend!
I was probably most fond of The Painted Garden, the one where they're making a film of The Secret Garden and the heroine is not really a good child actor, but is naturally very Mary-like!
And that one I can't remember if I've read or only had described to me. I'll look for it once libraries are more of a thing.
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Isn't it a wonderful world?
*hugs*
[edit] There's follow-up on the use of "amphibious"!
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While I have no evidence that actual Wittgenstein ever interacted with fireworks (although he spent the majority of his life in the UK, he must have been dragged to at least one Bonfire Night), his general history of disaster human leads me to believe this comic really could have occurred.