OK, sorry but I have to share this.
I just got the best review ever on Amazon…
I can’t understand the enthusiasm of the previous reviews, the text is too short for an evaluation. Yeah, sure, it seems to be well written, but what evaluation can I make??
And so he went and gave it a One-star rating.
And so I went and blew twenty bucks and made a donation to the Film Noir Foundation.
These guys love noir movies as much as I do, and they are committed to the preservation of the old classics.
It is our mission to find and preserve films in danger of being lost or irreparably damaged, and to ensure that high quality prints of these classic films remain in circulation for theatrical exhibition to future generations.
Which is cool. Continue reading
Sunday, we go to the movies!
Or the movies come to us.
This delightful little movie is called Sophie’s Fortune – The Treasure of Quetzalcoatl.
It was produced in the UK for 2000£ (!!!) and it is marvelous.
Enjoy!
I tried to track down some info on Edna Kenton, but there’s no wikipedia page about her.
There’s a very short bio – three paragraphs – in Anne Innis Dagg’s The Feminine Gaze: a Canadian Compendium of Non-Fiction Women Authors and their Books 1836-1945, and the first paragraph goes like this
Kenton, Edna 1876-1954. Edna Kenton is known best for her editing the Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents (Relations dej jésuites), voluminous annual reports describing all manner of conditions and experiences sent home in the 1660s to France by priests of the Society of Jesus stationed in Canada. She never married.
OK, maybe it’s just me, but that last line kills me, really.
So, why looking into the life of an unmarried woman (gasp!) editing Jesuit letters?
Because Edna Kenton wrote The Book of Earths. Continue reading
Ah, the heady days of Pre Code Hollywood.
At the time, this scene was cut – but you are free to use it as a writing prompt!
The other book I suggested to my friend Lucy as she’s planning her trip is Vagabonding, by Rolf Potts.
The book is about what the cover calls “Long Term World Travel”, but Potts’ book is also an excellent book about traveling as opposed to vacationing.
The idea is – instead of saying “one day I will go to far away lands”, just get your ass in gear and go.
Which means planning – and the book has lots of great ideas about planning and designing a travel to some far-off place – but also leaving behind a certain amount of cultural baggage.
And the book is very much about recovering the old idea of travel as discovery – of other places, of other people, but also of ourselves.
And of a different approach to, well, everyday matters.
Which is cool. Continue reading
Karavansara 