Film
News: Slash Fiction
by Awix
'I
believe we are sharing the same sofa for this screening,' I said. This was new
territory (not just the sofa either): some intuition had told me that the local
multiplex’s screening of Jane Schoenbrun's Teenage Sex and Death at Camp
Miasma might be on the busy side, so I'd booked my ticket a couple of days
early for once...
Read the
rest at Slash Fiction,
Awix's latest review.
DG,
on reading this review: Awix's account of the screening was much more
entertaining than the movie sounded IMHO, even though it does have
Gillian Anderson in it. But then, I have never watched any Halloween or Friday
the 13th movies because there are things I'm no-doubt too obtuse to
understand. But if your mental angles subtend in that direction, go for it.*
*You
see, I CAN make puns. I'll bet you're sorry now.
Comment
Section
Bluebottle, on reading about inchworms: I
never knew Inchworms actually really existed. I had only heard them from the
song in the 1952 'Hans Christian Andersen' film, so assumed they were fictional
like diminutive mermaids, cygnets identifying as ducklings, invisible imperial
clothing or Thumbelina.
Quasi-Political
OpEd
Behold on the tv: a shrewdness of apes.
A what?
A group of primates are called a shrewdness. It says so
right here, in The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England by
Joseph Strutt, 1845 edition.
What do you call a group of politicians, though?
A noodledom of fools.
You're still upset that Count Binface didn't win,
aren't you?
Yes.
Butterflies
of the Day
by Paigetheoracle and Tavaron
In the UK, everybody's got these flowers called
buddleia. And butterflies really, really like them. The Editor can tell because
so many emails start like Paige's:
'I was walking past these buddleia bushes and I saw
this Red Admiral, so I put down the shopping and…'
Enjoy.
Tavaron found a Silver-Washed Fritillary in her garden.
In Austria they call them Kaisermantel, the emperor's cloak. They're certainly
royal enough. Reminds me of a certain carpenter who once said something about
Solomon in all his glory…
Urs till butter flies, Dmitri Gheorgheni, Editor
I thought the image in Awix's review was something to do with underwater photography of the Loch Ness monster
ReplyDeleteIt probably is. I didn't have a picture of the movie under review. That's my cartoon of Nigel falling asleep watching a movie.
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