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Scarlet Pimpernel
I read The Scarlet Pimpernel (Wikipedia) by Baroness Orczy (Wikipedia) right after reading the Count of Monte Cristo. I was desperate for some kind of sequel or anything else of Alexandre Dumas’ that could live up to it that wasn’t about the three musketeers. The Scarlet Pimpernel came to my rescue then, and thanks to project Gutenberg, I am now buried in sequels. You could say, I am making it a new obsession.
Books in order of publication:
- The Scarlet Pimpernel (1903)
- I will Repay (1906)
- The Elusive Pimpernel (1908)
- Eldorado (1913)
- The Laughing Cavalier (1914)
- Lord Tony’s Wife (1917)
- The First Sir Percy (1921)
- The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1922)
- Pimpernel and Rosemary (1924)
- Sir Percy Hits Back (1927)
- A Child of the Revolution (1932)
- The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1933)
- The Scarlet Pimpernel Looks at the World (1933)
- Sir Percy Leads the Band (1936)
- Mam’zelle Guillotine (1940)
The novels and other collections of short stories were not typical sequels. They jumped about in time, each a piece of the French revolutionary world that the Baroness had created. Their huge popularity at the time drove her production as much as it inspired movie versions:
Movies:
- 1943 movie with Leslie Howard
- 1938 sequel with Barry Barnes
- Another sequel in 1950 starring David Niven
- 1940 Pimpernel Smith starring Leslie Howard
- The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1955 (starring Marius Goring)
- 1966 Carry on Pimpernel
- 1982 movie with Anthony Andrews and Jane Seymour
- 1999 miniseries with Richard Grant
- 2010 rumblings of Michael Armstrong directing a new version with Neil Jackson.
But there is no comic. Oh, there were advertisements of The Pimpernel: An Adaptation Of The Scarlet Pimpernel by Doug Kissock, but it doesn’t seem to have gone anywhere, much like the 2010 movie plans of Michael Armstrong.
Beauty and Mr. Hyde
Have you ever thought how the beast in Beauty and the Beast and Mr. Hyde from Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are both representations of the animal and undesirable side, or heart, of man?
What do you mean, you don’t know about Brisco County Jr.?
Okay, okay, so you did used to watch it religiously on Fox in 1994 like I did, but what have you done for the Adventures of Brisco County Jr. lately? While you think about it, have some auditory nostalgia:
Calamityware dinner plate 7 by Don Moyer — Kickstarter
Calamityware has a kickstarter for Don Moyer’s newest design! I am not sure if I have already talked about being a proud owner of a series one calamityware plate. I couldn’t resist! They are based on the old willow pattern china that has been sold for decades in all sorts of places. I have a full set of the red willow and the only way that calamityware could be better than it is, is if it came out in red. Seriously.
mermaid doodles
Clement Skitt’s word of the day
Seeing it was mizzling, the lallycooler inkslinger decided to stay in and have resurrection pie for his nooning.
Let’s dissect:
Mizzling – drizzling rain (1891 American Slang Dictionary by James Maitland)
Lallycooler – one who is pre-eminently successful in his line (daisy, dandy, darling, lullu) (1891 American Slang Dictionary by James Maitland)
Inkslinger – a writer or editor (1891 American Slang Dictionary by James Maitland)
Resurrection pie – a pie made of scraps or leavings (1891 American Slang Dictionary by James Maitland)
Nooning – an interval for rest and refreshment at midday, as in the harvest field (1891 American Slang Dictionary by James Maitland)
So, in other words: Since it was lightly raining, the preeminent writer decided to stay in and have remixed left-overs for his afternoon refreshment.
Justine Lai and the presidents
I was just wondering what happened to artist Justine Lai’s series on her paintings of the presidents. She has moved on, as evidenced by her online gallery, but the i09 post on her work is a great sampling of of her previous concentration.
How would our world today be different if one adventurous woman had traveled back in time and had glorious sex with every single US president? Time-traveling artist Justine Lai is about to find out.
Source: An Alternate Sexual History of the United States [NSFW]
No Evil: the Zombie
Hello Everyone! I have another comic announcement: Richard of doomedmoviethon.com, has written the second chapter of No Evil: The Zombie. It will be posting on Tuesdays from now on until it’s done. Check it out!
A love song
If you are a connoisseur of the LeEMS Bean RSS feed, then you already know that Kayt Ahnberg and myself have penned a song with the full intention of playing and recording it ourselves. In the mean time the Buffalo Chucks sing it you in an eight page color comic on the Drawing Board!
Posting Fridays.
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Alliester and MacCallister
National Jukebox LOC.gov
I was fishing around in the 78RPMs and Cylinder Recordings at the Internet Archive, finding wonderful things, when I found some really poorly preserved recordings of really wonderful songs. Searching for a better copy lead me to the Library of Congress National Jukebox:
National Jukebox historical recordings from the Library of Congress project. You can now play this collection of old music from the early 20th century online. | Library of Congress LOC.gov
Source: National Jukebox LOC.gov
And, if you, like me, end up spending all day listening to old tunes and still can’t get enough, the University of California, Santa Barbara Special Collections Department has a fabulous Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project.
Richard on the sofa telling a story
He was on the sofa, and then I put him in a chair…the drawing anyway not the Richard. Obviously, Richard also doesn’t sport such gnarly claws.