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With night at his back, his face always toward the dawn
1. Edward Petherbridge hath a blog. I have been reading it delightedly since January, but realized last night that I had completely forgotten to share with the rest of the internet. It is marvelous. Did Will, walking on Bankside, put his arm round a boy actor's shoulder and tell him stories of cats?
2. My poem "By the Dog" is now online at The Pedestal Magazine. It was written for Audrey Joyce McGurrin, who at four years old is already explaining sarcophagi and mummification to the rest of her daycare. Her cult title for Anubis is my puppy.
3. Did you know the state rock of Massachusetts was the Roxbury Conglomerate? I am entertained by this. It sounds so deadeningly financial.
4. Today is furniture moving.
2. My poem "By the Dog" is now online at The Pedestal Magazine. It was written for Audrey Joyce McGurrin, who at four years old is already explaining sarcophagi and mummification to the rest of her daycare. Her cult title for Anubis is my puppy.
3. Did you know the state rock of Massachusetts was the Roxbury Conglomerate? I am entertained by this. It sounds so deadeningly financial.
4. Today is furniture moving.
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They seem to take a lot of their repertoire from the Watersons, Martin Carthy, Peter Bellamy, and their sound from Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention. I have been frustratingly unable to get hold of their "Lyke-Wake Dirge" (it belongs to one of their innumerable limited-edition EPs), but I can recommend their first full-length album, A Garland of Song (2008). Also, seriously. I'm waiting for them to do something in Welsh.
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Your remark on Roxbury Conglomerate made me laugh :D
---congrats again on placing that lovely poem in such a great zine.
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I think that honor should be yours. Particularly if you write that poem.
---congrats again on placing that lovely poem in such a great zine.
Thank you! It's in the same issue as some wonderful pieces, too—Bridget Bell's "Our Small Pets," Tammy Ho Lai-Ming's "Marvelous Banality," Keith Brabender's "Valentine's Day," Brianna Noll's Franz Liszt Snores Like a Buzzsaw," and especially Hadaa Sendoo's Sunset at the Plateau."
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Re subject: I love that line.
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I'm glad you know where it comes from.
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♥
Good luck with moving.
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She's awesome.
Good luck with moving.
Thanks. It's my brother's furniture; we'll probably need it.
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(i made a bunch of screencaps at some point, actually after i last discussed this with
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Yes! Yes, you do!
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Not until now!
Because I may have grown up with Ian Carmichael, but Petherbridge seemed to me to pin Wimsey, face and voice and all...
I didn't grow up with either of them; I grew up with the books and if Wimsey had anyone's face for me, it was Leslie Howard's. (Hence these icons, which
You've seen The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982), right?
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Latterly, I am finding my interior view of Wimsey shifting, more closely to match Petherbridge. This is ... unnerving.
And yes, I wish they'd made Busman's Honeymoon; and yes, I resented the script for Gaudy Night. After the earlier series, I thought I could trust them, but alas...
Also, Nick Nick? Is it mean of me to observe that the RSC used to bring its entire Stratford season up here to Newcastle in the 80's, before it transferred to London? So, yup. I saw it live. Both parts in a single day, matinee and evening. Hee.
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I've never seen his Bertie Wooster, only Fry and Laurie (who are awesome). Considering Dennis Price was his Jeeves, I probably should.
I had met the books first, because my parents never let us have a TV before I turned ten. So I knew what these guys looked like in my head long before anyone else tried to tell me; and I could cheerfully watch Carmichael for the fun of it without ever allowing him to displace the true original.
Go, your parents!
Latterly, I am finding my interior view of Wimsey shifting, more closely to match Petherbridge. This is ... unnerving.
It's a great compliment to Petherbridge. I think inside my head he still looks like himself, but this conversation has really made me want to re-watch Petherbridge and Walter.
And yes, I wish they'd made Busman's Honeymoon;
I assume it got hung up in rights somehow, since it started life as a stage play and somewhere there's a film version I refuse to watch; I'm still not sure why they couldn't do a new version from the book. Edward Petherbridge and Emily Richard were in a stage production in the late '80's, but I very much doubt anyone filmed it. (Now you're going to tell me you saw it, right?)
and yes, I resented the script for Gaudy Night. After the earlier series, I thought I could trust them, but alas...
The actors felt the same way.
So, yup. I saw it live. Both parts in a single day, matinee and evening. Hee.
Lucky, lucky, lucky!
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Thank you. The title attests to the popularity of Anubis even outside of Egypt—in fifth-century Athens, Sokrates regularly swore νὴ τὸν κύνα, "by the Dog."
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Thank you very much!
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Delighted to see your poem online.
The name of the state rock is amusing, although I'm oldfashioned enough to prefer "puddingstone". I wish they'd say when said stone was named to its exalted position.
Good luck with the furniture moving. I hope all goes very well.
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He's an extraordinary actor; he originated Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Newman Noggs in Trevor Nunn's Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, played a near-definitive Lord Peter Wimsey for the BBC, and his resume is full of things I wish I'd seen, most of them onstage. What I had not known, until I discovered his website and his blog, was that he's extraordinary all round: artist, poet, essayist; he has become one of the people where I wouldn't be surprised at anything they did, because they are so good at everything they do. And generally seems like a lovely person on top of it, which is not guaranteed.
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...he has become one of the people where I wouldn't be surprised at anything they did, because they are so good at everything they do. And generally seems like a lovely person on top of it, which is not guaranteed.
Agreed on all counts. I'm going to have to read through his blog sometime in the not-too-distant.
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I think there's a specimen out front of the Boston Museum of Science. It's cut across the grain so that you can see, yep, that looks kind of like a pudding.
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Absolutely.