sovay: (Rotwang)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2025-09-11 07:55 pm

I saw the world crashing all around your face

This afternoon my godchild's school was locked down because one of the students had a gun and the nineteenth and twentieth monarchs of the summer hatched. What am I supposed to say about the day itself? That I am reminded even without the martial canonization of a never-laid grief that nothing is easier to shovel under six feet of lime than memory? The last cousin of my grandparents' generation died earlier this week at nearly a century. The lines to the past snap fast enough, no one needs to hurry them along.

On that note, Andrew Kozma's "The Black Death" (2025). I like that Ulysses S. Grant is top of the list of historical characters Jared Harris wants to play, in part because of his civil rights commitments as president and as a counterweight to his negative figuration in the mythos of the Lost Cause. I need a door in the hall closet to BFI Southbank if they are going to keep doing inaccessibly tantalizing series like last year's complete Powell and Pressburger or, currently, Anna May Wong.

gwynnega: (Leslie Howard mswyrr)

[personal profile] gwynnega 2025-09-12 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
I am sorry to hear about the lockdown but happy that the day included monarchs.
gwynnega: (Basil Rathbone)

[personal profile] gwynnega 2025-09-12 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
I am so glad your godson is safe.