tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post7030349242847557967..comments2024-03-28T19:17:01.550+13:00Comments on The Imaginary Museum: A Day out with David HowardDr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-17751728820164216382012-10-02T09:51:47.681+13:002012-10-02T09:51:47.681+13:00Hmmm...I did buy this computer from the Kingdom, s...Hmmm...I did buy this computer from the Kingdom, so it's just possible my computer is censoring irreligious comments.<br /><br />Anyhow, in the process of thanking you for the skinny on Game of Thrones (thanks!)I was merely offering an appreciative comment on the 3rd picture down here:<br /><br />http://www.dumpaday.com/random-pictures/game-of-thrones-pictures-including-george-bushs-head-15-pics/<br /><br />David, I beg you to overlook JD's idiosyncratic tastes and JR's ungenerous scepticism.'Howard in Helensville' is an inspiring dream, and one that you really owe it to NZ's viewing public to realize. However, might I suggest that you don a kilt in honour of Robbie Burns? Katherine Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01831799082347506550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-92132055640170516132012-10-01T10:38:59.265+13:002012-10-01T10:38:59.265+13:00Dear Katherine,
Funnily enough, no comments detai...Dear Katherine,<br /><br />Funnily enough, no comments detailing excitement at horse-lords actually came through at this end, so perhaps the machine deleted them spontaneously.<br /><br />As for the comments by 'anonymous', which claim to emanate from that sheltered pastoral scholar David Howard, permit me to express a certain scepticism. In any case, Helensville is John Key country -- not enough kiwi-fruit plantations to interest Don Brash ...Dr Jack Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-12986029469178377612012-10-01T09:19:55.385+13:002012-10-01T09:19:55.385+13:00I'm disappointed that John Dolan is 'not e...I'm disappointed that John Dolan is 'not excited by muscled horse-lords in leather garb' as it can nw be revealed that the trip Jack reported upon was for scouting locations for my new TV show, 'Howard in Helensville': this is a dystopian drama set in the last days of the Clark government rather than the future. It includes a dream sequence where I don leather, mount my stallion, and charge the evil lord Don Brash.<br /><br />David HowardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-49328466078406220982012-09-29T13:34:18.789+12:002012-09-29T13:34:18.789+12:00oops! I think I just posted a comment while the co...oops! I think I just posted a comment while the computer was signed into John's account. Just for the record, John is not, repeat not excited by muscled horse-lords in leather garb.<br /><br /> Katherine Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01831799082347506550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-63134328455316103222012-09-27T11:09:00.382+12:002012-09-27T11:09:00.382+12:00Funny you should ask, actually -- I just spent pre...Funny you should ask, actually -- I just spent pretty much the whole of mid-semester break reading <i>A Song of Ice and Fire</i> when I should have been doing any number of other things ... It was the TV series we watched first, though, and both Bronwyn and I loved it.<br /><br />It's <i>appallingly, egregiously</i> violent - so be warned - but the characters are interesting and sympathetic, and the acting and production absolutely superb.<br /><br />I wrote a little thing about it on my bibliography blog, on the new "Acquisitions" page [http://madbookcollection.blogspot.co.nz/2010/05/recent-acquisitions.html#_ftn1], but there's certainly a lot more to be said.<br /><br />I suspect I may wait till we get a chance to see series 2, which is still screening at present. George Martin is certainly no prose stylist, unlike Jack Vance, but he's a very competent writer who has an epic and uncompromising vision: he also avoids most of the more horrible cliches of the Tolkien imitators - politics interest him far more than vague eschatological uplift. It takes <i>ages</i> for anything to happen, though - in the books, at any rate. The TV series is faster moving.<br /><br />The Queen of the Dothraki is pretty damned cute. In fact I feel you'd have to be more-or-less dead to think otherwise. Her horse-lord husband gave rise to a few "Good Lord!" exclamations from Bronwyn, too, so I think it's fair to say that the series has something for everyone ...<br />Dr Jack Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-54478778558405654942012-09-27T10:44:59.143+12:002012-09-27T10:44:59.143+12:00Oh! That reminds me: petition for blog post...
Ha...Oh! That reminds me: petition for blog post...<br /><br />Have you seen Game of Thrones?<br />Have you read A Song of Ice and Fire?<br /><br />Inquiring minds want to know. <br /><br />(We haven't, incidentally, but our nephew recommended it to John, who thinks it sounds Jack Vance-y)Katherine Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01831799082347506550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-75132907036282403282012-09-27T07:27:39.556+12:002012-09-27T07:27:39.556+12:00Sometimes I wish I were one of those unworldly peo...Sometimes I wish I were one of those unworldly people to whom the term "Harold and Kumar" would mean nothing. And I can't help feeling that I'm going to end up being Kumar in this scenario ... even if there's no White Castle in Warkworth. That second movie was a bit throwaway, though - the one where they ended up in Guantanamo Bay ...<br /><br />I went to a talk on apocalyptic literature and the end times last night (given by one of our graduate students). The conversation got a bit monotonous: "Has anyone seen '2012'?"<br />Jack: Yes<br />"Has anyone read 'The Road'?"<br />Jack: Yes<br />Has anyone seen the movie of 'The Road'?"<br />Jack: Yes, but I didn't like it<br />Has anyone seen 'Melancholia'?"<br />Jack: Yes. It was fantastic.<br />And so on. Everyone else just glared. What do they do with the rest of their time, I ask myself?Dr Jack Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-32069187672873951232012-09-27T06:25:41.060+12:002012-09-27T06:25:41.060+12:00Yes, that look is positively villainous. Canadian....Yes, that look is positively villainous. Canadian...likes surfing... There is your culprit.Katherine Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01831799082347506550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-47109621965596901892012-09-26T13:41:31.692+12:002012-09-26T13:41:31.692+12:00Yes, you're quite right. It's too pat to b...Yes, you're quite right. It's too pat to be accidental ("Once is chance, twice is happenstance, three times is enemy action" as Goldfinger once remarked ...)<br /><br />It's possibly stretching it a little to suspect the hand of the monarch of darkness himself -- I do suspect that Dr Andrew Chrystall might bave been involved, though -- he's always asking my opinion of his latest theory on schlock horror films and suchlike.<br /><br />Check him out at:<br />http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/departments/school-communication-journalism-marketing/staff/staff-profile-andrew-chrystall.cfm<br />Is that a guilty look? I think so ...Dr Jack Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-40176090425573027892012-09-26T10:50:50.649+12:002012-09-26T10:50:50.649+12:00That is an amazing excerpt. You can imagine all th...That is an amazing excerpt. You can imagine all the black bits of junk left on the ground next to the corpse of an indigent drunk after an East-European snow melt. (Also, it has proper amounts of crow appreciation).<br /><br />Next time you and David should do a film: "Harold & Kumar Go to Warkworth: Fast Food. High Literature." <br /><br />As for the poster, I detect the hand of an evil nemesis. The coincidences are too perfect. Does Stephen King know where you work?Katherine Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01831799082347506550noreply@blogger.com