Seagull vs Starfish

It's not the full BC Ferries experience unless you've seen a seagull trying to eat a starfish.

Blackadder Goes Forth

Mockingbird

A thrush that sings varied melodious songs on warm summer nights … in Europe, the nightingale; in North America, the mockingbird.  One gets romantic odes, fairy tales, nostalgic songs, and instrumental duets broadcast on the radio; the other gets cursed for making a racket at two in the morning.  What gives? Is it the name? Beautiful birdsong in the middle of the night is a gift, and you only get it a few months of the year. Try to think of your mockingbird as a nightingale and see what a difference it makes.

Londoners

Camden Lock

Deeper 'n Ever Pie

The Glower

Drawn in response to this much nicer picture of Mona Williams (Mrs. Harrison Williams of the Cole Porter song ‘You’re the Top’), later Mona Bismarck, sketched by Rene Bouche.  When I do that it's not nearly so attractive, but no matter what it may look like, I am not plotting your assassination, I promise.  Really.  The glower is just sort of built-in.

Smoking French Dishwasher Monkey

There is a context for this but it's better without it.

That's 104ºF

This temperature has already been forecast twice this summer and it's not even August yet.  Oy.

Hourly Comics, 2013

Dr Pinch and the Pinchtones

Red Barn

 

In the vain hope that anyone reading this blog is in the L.A. area:

GO SEE THIS SHOW!

The Independent Shakespeare Company usually does (obviously) Shakespeare, but they decided to branch out and make a period murder mystery tragicomic musical ... as you do.  Unsurprisingly, they bring just as much talent, charm, expertise, and pure entertainment to this as they do to their annual summer Shakespeare festival in Griffith Park.

Sample songs: Red Barn and Love

Details on the historical story on which it is very faithfully based can be found on Wikipedia.

Infinite Monkeys

Mark Gatiss had a guest appearance on The Infinite Monkey Cage, a science/comedy show on BBC Radio 4.  Why they brought on a champion of the imagination and then set about belittling imagination is beyond me, but it was hard not to pick up on the snub.

I'm a big fan of science and everything, but I'd pick Mark Gatiss over Richard Dawkins any day.

Like a Bag of Cats

Yeah, I dunno, the drawings just happen sometimes.

Richard II, King of Pop

There was a familiar strain in Ben Whishaw's portrayal of Richard II in the recent BBC production.

Hushpuppy

Hushpuppy, from Beasts of the Southern Wild.  I quite liked the movie, despite it being noting at all what I was expecting it to be, but I would have liked to have been warned it was all shot hand-liked ...

Can't Sleep, Couric is Watching

There are posters all over Burbank for Katie Couric's new show on ABC. There is something slightly unsettling about them, as though the predator is only just under the surface ...

Cabin Pressure

Thanks to the iPlayer, I have never really been able to picture the characters in Cabin Pressure as looking anything unlike the actors who play them ... this is fine for Douglas and Carolyn, but Martin in particular is supposed to be the opposite of tall and authoritative Benedict Cumberbatch, so as I was listening again, I tried to force myself to picture him in a new way, and came up with someone who's somewhere between Steve Punt and Schmendrick the Magician.

Plus bonus Arthur and poorly-executed Douglas.

Cats in the Trenches

One of the cats in our house has what my roommate describes as a 'shellshocked' expression.  Recently I just made the connection: Cats!  In World War I!  And four pages of sketchbook just sort of happened.

Bohemians

Café Vesuvio, San Francisco – if you're looking for a nice bar where you can actually hear each other talk after 9pm, this is the place for you!  My sister took me here after seeing Midnight in Paris, which was ... appropriate.