1. The Switch looks fantastic. Magic realist transgender comedy TV. Diverse, queer—Canadian, so I won't see it when it first airs, but then again I don't own a television, so I wouldn't anyway. They have some funding; they need more. Go forth and add to it!
2. Eli Wallach has died. I don't know whether I saw him first in The Magnificent Seven (1960) or The Misfits (1961). Leone cast him as the last of the titular triumvirate in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), but he was a beautiful brutto, canny, stubbly, half-handsome by angles; his face opened and you could see more than the plot. I always wanted to see him with Milo O'Shea as a longtime gay couple in Staircase (1968), but I'd need the time machine for that. His stage work was more varied than his movies, therefore of course it's not what survived: I am glad all of the same of what did. I've wanted to see Baby Doll (1956) ever since this essay. Now I have no excuse not to.
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asakiyume is marking the start of Pen Pal with a drawing and a promise of future artifacts. If you have not already read the novel, now would be an auspicious day to start.
4. This is an animated history of the MBTA. You're welcome.
5. It is Robert Aickman's centenary today. I came to him late—in January I watched Mark Gatiss in Jeremy Dyson's The Cicerones (2002) and thenrushthatspeaks lent me Cold Hand in Mine (1975). ashlyme writes about him here. His books are being reissued this summer, which is such a weird concept to contemplate. He feels like a writer who should be discovered in used book stores or crumbling anthologies, as unremarkably and fatally as his characters stumble into their own strange stories; a small, chilly secret that you take away with you—you must, it's happened to you now—unsure how to describe it, whether the experience can (should) be shared; you know only that the light doesn't fall the same way now.
I have my Readercon schedule! I'll post it as soon as I get back from my doctor's appointment! Fourth this week.
2. Eli Wallach has died. I don't know whether I saw him first in The Magnificent Seven (1960) or The Misfits (1961). Leone cast him as the last of the titular triumvirate in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), but he was a beautiful brutto, canny, stubbly, half-handsome by angles; his face opened and you could see more than the plot. I always wanted to see him with Milo O'Shea as a longtime gay couple in Staircase (1968), but I'd need the time machine for that. His stage work was more varied than his movies, therefore of course it's not what survived: I am glad all of the same of what did. I've wanted to see Baby Doll (1956) ever since this essay. Now I have no excuse not to.
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asakiyume is marking the start of Pen Pal with a drawing and a promise of future artifacts. If you have not already read the novel, now would be an auspicious day to start.4. This is an animated history of the MBTA. You're welcome.
5. It is Robert Aickman's centenary today. I came to him late—in January I watched Mark Gatiss in Jeremy Dyson's The Cicerones (2002) and then
rushthatspeaks lent me Cold Hand in Mine (1975). ashlyme writes about him here. His books are being reissued this summer, which is such a weird concept to contemplate. He feels like a writer who should be discovered in used book stores or crumbling anthologies, as unremarkably and fatally as his characters stumble into their own strange stories; a small, chilly secret that you take away with you—you must, it's happened to you now—unsure how to describe it, whether the experience can (should) be shared; you know only that the light doesn't fall the same way now.I have my Readercon schedule! I'll post it as soon as I get back from my doctor's appointment! Fourth this week.
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