Flicker like a Super 8

[sovay]

All errands were successfully accomplished this afternoon and except for the part where spatch and I ate slices of pizza in a park, Harry, it sucked. Have some links.

1. It might have been useful for me to know a couple of years ago, but it looks as though many of the whalemen's journals kept by the New Bedford Whaling Museum have been digitized and can be read online. On that subject, see the forgotten whaling captains of color.

2. Poems that have gotten my attention lately include Hugo Williams' "Flâneur" and Campbell McGrath's "Glory-of-the-Atlantic."

3. I was slightly unclear on the parameters of the quiz to determine which WWI homosexual you are and assumed it meant historical figures. It seems to operate more archetypally and assigned me Captain Cooke:

You have been here since 1914 and you're not quite sure what year it is. You could not give less of a damn if you got a court martial for wearing your uniform wrong. Your boyfriend listens patiently as you complain how B Company always leaves the trenches a bloody mess for your arrival. You throw a flask at the staff officer who enters your dugout, but you're one of his best men so he wants to promote you to Major. However, you would sooner eat your own boots, hobnails and all. Before everything you do, you let out a long sigh. You know you're bitter sometimes, but you have a soft heart underneath it all. Your weakness is boys who know you have a soft spot . . .

I gather I am in a production of Journey's End. Possibly I should not actually go around singing "We're Here Because We're Here."

Comments

[landofnowhere]

Oh, hey, that intro to reading logbooks was written by my friend Rachel who used to work at the New Bedford Whaling Museum!

[nineweaving]

Oh, the ghost! That singing stopped my breath.

*hugs*

Greer

[chanter1944]

I got through 11 of 12 questions on that fascinating quiz, and I won't lie, I was appreciating how the author was managing to be silly and poignant by turns, and then ::BANG:: a strictly visual question ended the whole endeavor. As in, my screenreader wouldn't even parse the choices, never mind letting me click one randomly just to pass. Damn! :(

[kore]

"You always keep a notebook with you to write poetry and draw gay things in, occasionally slipping anonymous poems to your crush."

Look, quiz, you don't know me....

I was torn between Kit Bag and Bells of Hell. Otherwise it was every foppish bookish option, lol.

[moon_custafer]

I gather I am in a production of Journey's End.

Well that goes w/o saying

[thisbluespirit]

I gather I am in a production of Journey's End.

LOL, it does sound like it! WOuld you like to be in one with James Maxwell, Martin Jarvis or Jeremy Northam? XD (I'm sure other versions are available, but apparently my blorbos cluster round it by turns. Honestly, it's surprising David Collings didn't play one of the supporting characters; he could have been Hibbert.)


(Oh, wait, even if you have an Other Preferred Version, I just remembered that the Northam one has Edward Petherbridge in it as well, so I think that may be a non-question.)

*hugs for the rest*