Tag Archives: Wit-of-the-Staircase
Nor shall my sword sleep at my side (just a day late)
It didn’t occur to me until today, the morning after William Blake’s 250th anniversary, to post, by way of celebration, Mark Stewart’s version of Jerusalem* with the Maffia, now 25-years-old itself, and sounding, if anything, more contemporary than it did … more…
Theresa Duncan R.I.P.
Theresa Duncan 1966-2007 Shocking news: Theresa Duncan, games designer, film maker, blogger, apparently took her own life on 10th July. A week later, her long-term partner Jeremy Blake was seen swimming out to sea off Rockaway Beach, and is “missing”. … more…
To Wit: this is getting scary now
As you might have gathered, I’m still more than a bit slumped. Too slumped to have noticed for myself that my mate Niall Griffiths (in fine form recently when we walked and drank and what not) is featured in the … more…
Kwaidan (1964)
A VHS copy of Kwaidan (1964) came my way a couple of weeks ago, but I didn’t get to look at it until this weekend. It’s a portmanteau of four ghost stories, rather uneven as regards the quality of the … more…
Modern Alchemy: Tincture of Winchester
I am partial to smoky flavours — smoked cheese, smoked fish, smoked tea, all that good stuff — so the Tincture of Winchester candle, apparently named after the rifle and giving forth, according to this here online brochure, an aroma … more…