Weblog Response: To make up for the lack of a comments facility, if you’ve got something to say about The Brown Wedge and want to make it public, this is the thread to do it on. (We’ll be adding this as a permanent link somewhere prominen[…]

More Zenda action: the other thing that struck me reading it is how difficult the sexual codes now are to understand. Early on in the book the hero visits an inn and flirts with a lusty wench: there’s a bit of banter on the stairs and the hero […]

I am A Boy Band-Benny Ramsay Menerofsky
Single Channel DVD
The concept here is insanely simple, a man dressed as a boy band sings a 16th century English Madigral. A love song then is a love song, the melodramtic heart break, the “i sigh, i di[…]

(an addendum to Tom’s Prisoner Of Zenda item below): there was once a daily newspaper strip called Thimble Theatre, and its creator, E.C. Segar, needed his lead character, Ham Gravy, to take a sea voyage. He introduced a rough and tough sailor,[…]

The Prisoner Of Zenda by Anthony Hope
Yesterday I spent two long bus journeys reading this classic of Victorian adventure fiction. My rip was definitely roared but the novel seems to me an excellent example of the perils of an author letting a belove[…]

Cat Yronwode on her unfinished Steve Ditko biography – “The unexpected core of the book became the issue of how and why an obviously brilliant young boy with great natural art talent was placed in the “industrial track” in a s[…]

THE BROWN LOG: Woman’s Own
Weekly, 72p
DESIGN: The cover features no less than 5 smiles, these being i) an Emmerdale star, ii) Emmerdale star’s screen lover (this smile somewhat roguish), iii) a toddler eating a biscuit, iv) a woman who h[…]

www.poetrymagazines.org.uk A large (and growing) slice of the Poetry Library‘s magazine collection can now be found here, as part of their ongoing digitisation project. As well as the creative content of current and previous issues, there&#8217[…]

A lot of old comic fans are very keen on the intelligence and comparative realism of modern superhero comic books, but I miss the heroic stupidity of the old days. The Atom, DC’s superhero with shrinking powers, is a terrific example.
His origi[…]

Whilst we all soak our knickers with the cinematic masterpiece of Pirates of the Carribbean and it’s zombie pirate monkey over on certain other FT associated blogs, let us not forget the grebt historical precedents of pirates in wot one might c[…]