Boys will be boys will be girls with no warning

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1. My poem "Matlacihuatl's Gift," originally published in Dreams and Nightmares #63 and a Rhysling winner in 2003, will be reprinted in Aqueduct Press' The Moment of Change, edited by Rose Lemberg. I am very pleased about this.

2. Requiescat John Howard Davies, with possibly the most heartrending obituary photo I've ever seen. I hadn't realized he was the same child actor as The Rocking Horse Winner (1949), but what I really hadn't realized was the magnitude of the debt owed him by anyone who loves British comedy: his productions at the BBC including but not limited to Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–74), Fawlty Towers (1975/79), and "the first two series of The Goodies (1970–72), a role that obliged him to balance the cost of elaborate visual effects against the size of the laugh they were likely to yield. In 1972 an episode emerged from the typewriter of Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie that asked for a giant kitten to demolish the Post Office Tower before being sedated by the principals, dressed as mice, riding a three-wheeled cycle borne aloft by hot air balloons. Davies said yes. Kitten Kong won the Silver Rose of Montreux." Please, sir. We want some more.

3. I keep forgetting to post this link: the newly discovered Roman port in Wales.

I have other stuff to post about, but I also have these errands I have to run. The sky looks as though it is seriously contemplating rain.

Comments

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. The Rocking Horse Winner really creeped me out as a kid. I've always wondered if the author of Riding the Bull which has a similar plot point, from a more modern filter was influenced by the story as well.

Requiescat.

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I've always wondered if the author of Riding the Bull which has a similar plot point, from a more modern filter was influenced by the story as well.

What is Riding the Bull?

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

It's a play about a woman who becomes an oracle at the moment of orgasm and predicts rodeo winners. It was apparently actually written for a friend and her husband to star in, but it's been mounted variously. I went to see a production with what was almost the original cast about four years ago.

She played the woman, and he played her husband, the rodeo clown. The funny thing was that she had lost a startling amount of weight since the play was written and had to wear a fat-suit to play the main character, because it's part of the role.

[alankria.livejournal.com]

My poem "Matlacihuatl's Gift," originally published in Dreams and Nightmares #63 and a Rhysling winner in 2003, will be reprinted in Aqueduct Press' The Moment of Change, edited by Rose Lemberg.

Excellent! We shall be TOC-mates. =D

I keep forgetting to post this link: the newly discovered Roman port in Wales.

Oh, awesome. Thank you for sharing!

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Excellent! We shall be TOC-mates.

I like this.

Thank you for sharing!

You're very welcome! I should remember to post more archaeology.

[alankria.livejournal.com]

I should remember to post more archaeology.

I approve of this thought.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I have that Goodies episode on DVD...

And, fascinating about the port on the Usk! I can't help wondering in my non-archaeologist way whether this discovery sheds any light on the name of nearby Newport. Could this have been the old port?

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I have that Goodies episode on DVD...

I've never seen it and now I feel deprived.

I can't help wondering in my non-archaeologist way whether this discovery sheds any light on the name of nearby Newport. Could this have been the old port?

I think you should believe so until disproven. Also, if you've got nothing to do before next week:

The dig ends on 1 September, and the area is open to the public until then.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I've never seen it and now I feel deprived.

We can't have that. The last clip is the one you were referring to. I loved this show when it first aired (I was 9), but thought it had dated quite a lot when I got the DVD. However, my children loved it just as much at the same age, so perhaps I was the one who had dated.