I've been asked to make a study of a strange sickness

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1. My essay "I Can Hardly Believe It Happened: Terence Fisher's The Brides of Dracula," in which I realize more fully a bunch of my thoughts on this splendidly strange film, is now online at Weird Fiction Review. Slowly, my nonfiction creeps through the world.

2. handful_ofdust has supplied me with another Turing song: Andrew Bird's "Not a Robot, But a Ghost."

I hear the clockwork in your core
Time strips the gears
Till you forget what they were for
I push the numbers through your pores
I crack the codes
I crack the codes that end the war

3. Good news: Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner (2014) is getting a U.S. release. Bad news: I have to wait until December?

Dentist today. Lots of work. Yesterday was still totally worth it.

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It occurs to me to wonder: have you been watching Penny Dreadful? I think you need access to Showtime's streaming in order to see it, but presumably it will be more widely available after the first season ends, and I think you would dig the hell out of it -- mostly for Eva Green, who just owns that show. The other actors are perfectly good, and their characters have interesting stories (which are a collage of familiar Victorian supernatural horror tales, Frankenstein and his monster and Dorian Grey and Sir Malcolm Murray hunting for his daughter Mina), but they just can't compete with the awesomeness that is Eva Green's character Vanessa Ives. :-P

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The other actors are perfectly good, and their characters have interesting stories (which are a collage of familiar Victorian supernatural horror tales, Frankenstein and his monster and Dorian Grey and Sir Malcolm Murray hunting for his daughter Mina), but they just can't compete with the awesomeness that is Eva Green's character Vanessa Ives.

This is the impression I have been getting from handful_ofdust's Tumblr. I haven't seen any of the show, but the stills (and occasional gifsets) look fantastic. I'll give it a try when I don't need Showtime!