I have been dedicating myself to recuperative and totally non-productive activities: I sat out in the sun, I read Rebecca Roanhorse's Race to the Sun (2020) and W. Bolingbroke Johnson's The Widening Stain (1941) and a selection of The Big Book of Reel Murders: Stories That Inspired Great Crime Films (2019), I saw my parents, I did impromptu astronomy, I baked a peach crumble with cherries. I slept ten hours last night, which means I have no idea if I'll sleep at all tonight, but it was a nice change of pace. I am feeling bitter about streaming services and missing the range and accessibility of libraries. Have some links.
1. Courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
handful_ofdust: British Pathé's "Waistcoat Club aka Waistcoats for Women" (1955). The narrator is a bit of a twerp, but the waistcoats of all genders are pretty sweet. "Jon Pertwee has a collection dating back three hundred years." I would expect nothing less of a Time Lord who owned an opera cape. Peter Cushing, by contrast, is obviously some kind of Element. thisbluespirit, is Palladium taken? I thought of Titanium first, but then I liked the scholar-association with Athene better. It is silvery, rare, and untarnishing.
2. I had never heard of The Duke (2020) before this review by the Guardian, but: "In an earlier era, the role of Kempton would have been played by Denholm Elliott or Alastair Sim." JUST STREAM IT SOMEWHERE I CAN SEE IT AND TAKE MY MONEY OKAY.
3. I am much less likely to see Hope Gap (2019), even though I enjoyed this interview with the writer-director and all three principals. I was especially struck by Josh O'Connor's comments about vulnerability and Bill Nighy's about gender.
4. Courtesy ofsilveradept: Amanda E. Herbert, "Treble Hearted': Queer Intimacies in Early Modern Britain." tl;dr seventeenth-century triad with a pair of siblings and a marriage as the hinge: "Constance and Katherine's own descriptions of the bonds that all three people shared make it clear that the marriage between Herbert and Katherine was not a coverup or a sham; rather, the three wrote of their bond as tripartite."
5. This is just a very nice post about pockets: "I made some trousers with unusual pockets, and I think they're good."
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handful_ofdust: British Pathé's "Waistcoat Club aka Waistcoats for Women" (1955). The narrator is a bit of a twerp, but the waistcoats of all genders are pretty sweet. "Jon Pertwee has a collection dating back three hundred years." I would expect nothing less of a Time Lord who owned an opera cape. Peter Cushing, by contrast, is obviously some kind of Element. thisbluespirit, is Palladium taken? I thought of Titanium first, but then I liked the scholar-association with Athene better. It is silvery, rare, and untarnishing.2. I had never heard of The Duke (2020) before this review by the Guardian, but: "In an earlier era, the role of Kempton would have been played by Denholm Elliott or Alastair Sim." JUST STREAM IT SOMEWHERE I CAN SEE IT AND TAKE MY MONEY OKAY.
3. I am much less likely to see Hope Gap (2019), even though I enjoyed this interview with the writer-director and all three principals. I was especially struck by Josh O'Connor's comments about vulnerability and Bill Nighy's about gender.
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silveradept: Amanda E. Herbert, "Treble Hearted': Queer Intimacies in Early Modern Britain." tl;dr seventeenth-century triad with a pair of siblings and a marriage as the hinge: "Constance and Katherine's own descriptions of the bonds that all three people shared make it clear that the marriage between Herbert and Katherine was not a coverup or a sham; rather, the three wrote of their bond as tripartite." 5. This is just a very nice post about pockets: "I made some trousers with unusual pockets, and I think they're good."
