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A thousand shades of twilight
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When the light is fading from the day, and the rest is darkness and dismay*, think of me and my humble restorative tonic designed for you and all the Sunday Evening Melancholics... *to paraphrase Edward Gorey
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The World of Nonsense v The Howling Void
(Image shows detail from 'Focus' by Spanish painter Juan Genoves) I remember reading an article in a music magazine in which the author shared, rather sheepishly, his madcap theory that I-PODs are, in fact, intelligent and can respond to their......
Images so grim that they are amusing #3
(A poster in the Theatre Museum in Munich - from The Cabaret by Lisa Appignanesi, 1975, Studio Vista Books) The Eleven Executioners. For those days when ten executioners just won't cut it....
I've got the world on a little silver thing
(Image is a detail from the front cover of the vinyl version of Sarah Vaughan's 'After Hours') This week, I finally caved and bought an I-POD. I must admit to not fully understanding what an I-POD was until I had......
The birdlike chattering of gaily attired old ladies
The Ladykillers (1955) PART 10 As part of my ongoing campaign to inflict all of my favourite things on Dear Patient M, we watched Alexander McKendrick's The Ladykillers the other night. The very concept of the Coen Brothers remake starring......
My life as a clown
Oh, what a silly time I have been having of it lately. It has been one of those periods where, to the untrained eye, it may just well appear that I have in fact been storing my brain in a......
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