Day: August 8, 2007

The Day The Bulls Won

I meant to mention this last month, and then things got out of hand. So, you know the “running of the bulls” in Pamplona? I don’t get it, but then there’s a lot of that Hemmingwayesque butch stuff that I don’t get. Knowing that “Injuries are common, both to the participants who may be gored or trampled, and to the… Read more →

I like Sherlock Holmes.

I don’t think it ever occurred to me that Arthur Conan Doyle‘s lifespan had convergence with the period in which film, particularly film with audio, was a common technology. I certainly don’t think of him being alive until 1930–in my mind he’s all about gaslight, and certainly set in the period well before WWI. However, reality is, as is often… Read more →

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