If I had a serious professional podcast, the intro music would be “The Super-Natural,” by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers. 🎵
I had to give Walter Martin a piece of my mind, such as it is.
Ideal epitaph for my tombstone:
GOOD IDEA,
POOR EXECUTION
Angus before his bath: For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto 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.