And some no one from the future remembers that you're gone

[sovay]

Still toast. Successfully collected my father from the airport two nights ago. Would like my capacity for movies to get back online before I run out of month in which to write about them. Would also like our next-door neighbor to have ceased to use loud air-whining machineries after seven p.m.

I saw the news of the death of Pope Francis. If it was going to be one of his last public statements, the construction site of Hell was an incredibly metal image to go out on.

I was not expecting to see the news that Willy Ley had been found in a can in a co-op on 67th Street. The idea of sending his ashes to space is completely correct and I wouldn't put SpaceX anywhere near that gesture. I could rewatch Frau im Mond (1929) for his memory.

Playing Stan Rogers' "Macdonnell on the Heights" (1984) for spatch may actually have counter-observed Patriots' Day, but my point still stands that the song has successfully superseded its chorus, or at least one in ten thousand seems to underrate Rogers' influence.

Personally I would ask Nigel Havers about the 1986 LWT A Little Princess.

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[theseatheseatheopensea]

I saw the news of the death of Pope Francis. If it was going to be one of his last public statements, the construction site of Hell was an incredibly metal image to go out on.

After an entire day of reading and hearing praise for him, I appreciate that this doesn't immediately make me want to throw up. About someone like him, who looked the other way (or worse) as some of his fellow Jesuits were disappeared by the military, covered up pedophile priests, fought against gender identity, sex education, abortion and same-sex marriage laws (referring to this last one as "a plan of the devil"), all I can say is: good riddance, he won't be missed.

On a less grumpy note (sorry about that!), I hope you get some good rest (and possibly some capacity for movies)! <3

[sovay]

After an entire day of reading and hearing praise for him, I appreciate that this doesn't immediately make me want to throw up.

Well, that's good. It is not an effect I ever want to have on you!

I hope you get some good rest (and possibly some capacity for movies)!

Thank you! I have done primarily nothing with the day and am endeavoring to do primarily nothing with my evening. Further bulletins as non-events warrant.

*hugs*

[selkie]

Get some rest, you never know, Linda could go next and you’ll have to make the arrangements for the brass band and borrowing the Tchaikovsky guns from the Pops.
Edit: I will, of course, see to your top hat and tails. Do you feel like the occasion would want white spats?

[sovay]

Edit: I will, of course, see to your top hat and tails. Do you feel like the occasion would want white spats?

I'll sure as hell wear the cufflinks.

[selkie]

MORNING UPDATE: NICOLE SAYS WE MAY BRING THE TCHAIKOVSKY GUNS WHETHER IT IS IN A CHURCH OR NO

[sovay]

MORNING UPDATE: NICOLE SAYS WE MAY BRING THE TCHAIKOVSKY GUNS WHETHER IT IS IN A CHURCH OR NO

BOOM TOMORROW.

[asakiyume]

Wow, thank you so much for that link to Pope Francis's stations of the cross. I backed up to read a background article about it, and found this, that Pope Francis had said, "We have been prisoners of the roles we choose to continue playing, fearful of the challenge of a change in the direction of our lives" and then this, from the stations of the cross: "We can learn marvelous lessons from this: how to free those unjustly accused, how to acknowledge the complexity of situations, how to protest lethal judgments." Take that, Trump administration.

[anna_wing]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Lunar_Exploration_Program

[sovay]

Thank you! It had occurred to me that if it was not environmentally unsound, the moon would be an ideal resting place for Willy Ley, but I wasn't sure of how to get him there.

[thisbluespirit]

Personally I would ask Nigel Havers about the 1986 LWT A Little Princess.

I am quite puzzled that there was a 1986 TV A Little Princess and we somehow didn't watch it, but there you go. It was probably because of it being ITV or maybe it was a Sunday when we were out or something. We watched a version of The Secret Garden on the BBC around the same time and loved it.

Which is to say, what is it that you would ask Nigel Havers about it?

[sovay]

I am quite puzzled that there was a 1986 TV A Little Princess and we somehow didn't watch it, but there you go.

It's wonderful, if you are region-permitted to watch it off YouTube. Amelia Shankley, Maureen Lipman, Miriam Margolyes, Natalie Abbott, Nigel Havers, Antony Zaki, David Yelland, Meera Syal, and probably some other people I am forgetting. It is not one of the adaptations of a book I read at a formative age where I want to scream about any changes.

Which is to say, what is it that you would ask Nigel Havers about it?

The questions I imagine anybody would ask! How did he feel about being in a beloved children's classic? Had he read it to his daughter? Had he read it on his own time? (Any feelings about Carrisford being a lot more of a disaster than his traditional range of charmers? I am very fond of his Carrisford.)

[thisbluespirit]

It's wonderful, if you are region-permitted to watch it off YouTube.

Thanks! It looks like it does, anyway, if I do want to try it.

The questions I imagine anybody would ask! How did he feel about being in a beloved children's classic? Had he read it to his daughter? Had he read it on his own time?

Aw, those sound like good questions. You should have got to ask them!

Any feelings about Carrisford being a lot more of a disaster than his traditional range of charmers? I am very fond of his Carrisford.

Ha, I am more familiar with him as various shades of cad, and in particular the hilariously terrible waste of a human being he plays in the radio sitcom Reluctant Persuaders. (So, I would have asked him if he could have sworn he heard someone mention his name, which is why you should get to ask people questions and I should not. XD)

[sovay]

Thanks! It looks like it does, anyway, if I do want to try it.

Great! Enjoy it if you do.

Ha, I am more familiar with him as various shades of cad, and in particular the hilariously terrible waste of a human being he plays in the radio sitcom Reluctant Persuaders.

I remember you mentioning that show to me for its (inevitable) Martin Jarvis values, but I did not realize it regularly featured Nigel Havers!

[thisbluespirit]

I remember you mentioning that show to me for its (inevitable) Martin Jarvis values, but I did not realize it regularly featured Nigel Havers!

Yes, he does crop up in it twice, I think - I remember I only found out about s4 when I was scrolling down his Genome credits. I seem to have talked about it in a post I never actually posted publicly and so then thought I had, otherwise you would have heard me talk about Rupert Hardacre at some point. I'm not quite sure why Nigel Havers being a terrible person is so funny to me, but that was continually the best bit. Well, apart from the musical episode, which was amazing, obv.

Martin Jarvis is canonically even more terrible than Nigel Havers, though, but he fools people because he has such a marvellous voice. XD

[sovay]

I seem to have talked about it in a post I never actually posted publicly and so then thought I had, otherwise you would have heard me talk about Rupert Hardacre at some point. I'm not quite sure why Nigel Havers being a terrible person is so funny to me, but that was continually the best bit. Well, apart from the musical episode, which was amazing, obv.

Recommendation accepted.

Martin Jarvis is canonically even more terrible than Nigel Havers, though, but he fools people because he has such a marvellous voice.

That does sound on one of his brands.