Angus before his bath: That which I most feared has come upon me.
Fifteen minutes later: Party Time!
It seems that every Premier League match features a commemoration of someone’s death. (Maybe a former player or manager from one of the sides playing, maybe a fan.) As my son says, the real motto of the PL is “Dust thou art, and to dust thou shall return.”
Adam Roberts weighs in on the great question of our time: How tall was Dorothy L. Sayers? I also comment.
Hey look, it’s another maybe-all-this-time-on-social-media-isn’t-good-for-me thing. They keep coming, even though everyone knows what the deal is. You know, I know, we know. All these pieces are desperate evasions of the essential question: Why don’t we do what we all know we should do?
The Detection Club looks like it might be fun, but I wonder about one thing: Why did the creators decide to make Miles Jupp look exactly like Chesterton but make Bryony Hannah and Cara Theobold look nothing like Christie and Sayers?
For the record: Christie was tall (5'8", unusual for the time) and fair, and somewhat formal in her public appearance; Hannah is short, dark, and petite, and is dressed like a dumpy schoolmarm. Sayers was also often called tall (though there’s no record of her actual height), increasingly stout from her late 20s on, with short dark-brown hair and a flamboyant eccentricity of dress often remarked on; Cara Theobold in the show is bright blonde and almost a fashion plate.
There’s no reason why the show should adhere to the facts in this matter — but it’s so particular about getting GKC right (the hair, the pince-nez, the cape)! I find myself thinking that she show would be more visually interesting if Christie’s traditionalism were contrasted to Sayers’s eccentricity.
You all know how much I love micro.blog, but one thing drives me a little nuts: When I post something that has an error, immediately see the error and correct it, and then have to wait … and wait … and wait for the corrected version to go live. And it seems that every time that happens I get messages from people telling me I made a mistake and I want to shout “I ALREADY FIXED IT DAMMIT.”
PSA: The body of water formerly known as Lake Waco will hereafter be known as Lake Ayjay. I have also renamed the Brazos River as the Ayjay River, and the Bosque River as the Other Ayjay River. I will not be taking questions at this time.
Just learned about Freston Tower from a friend who stayed there.