THREE MISCELLANEOUS RECOMMENDATIONS
1. An essay about two minor Bob songs by Ray Padgett, here ...though the views expressed are not those of the blog management
2. A political-background piece by Matthew Engel about, er, whether Minnesotans consider Barack Obama human, here
3. The new BBC-TV Andrew Davies adaptation of a Dickens novel, this time Little Dorrit. Judging from the first episode (last Sunday night) it's showing touches of hamminess that their great, great Bleak House never did, but it's still a thousand times more interesting than most TV and may deepen as it goes along. I think it's an affectation to find these historical dramas tiresome per se. They certainly can be, but the BBC can still pull these things off. And it's part of what it ought to be there for. Part 2 of Little Dorrit is this Thursday (30th).
2. A political-background piece by Matthew Engel about, er, whether Minnesotans consider Barack Obama human, here
3. The new BBC-TV Andrew Davies adaptation of a Dickens novel, this time Little Dorrit. Judging from the first episode (last Sunday night) it's showing touches of hamminess that their great, great Bleak House never did, but it's still a thousand times more interesting than most TV and may deepen as it goes along. I think it's an affectation to find these historical dramas tiresome per se. They certainly can be, but the BBC can still pull these things off. And it's part of what it ought to be there for. Part 2 of Little Dorrit is this Thursday (30th).
posted by Michael Gray | 11:13 am
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