I went to a party as a Tall Blond Man In Black With One Brown Shoe but apparently nobody there had seen the movie.

Wasn’t there a movie in the Eighties whose tagline on the posters was “The most erotic thing in their world was money”?

2006: The Ananova story, if memory serves, was about a Russian newspaper being penalized(?) for a cartoon of two currency symbols (dollar and euro?) going at it doggie-style.

I see that IMDB has accepted my correction that John Holbrook Vance is the same as one of the three Jacks previously listed; though it has not added his year of birth which I also provided.

I wonder: Minbar, name of a planet in Babylon 5, could be Elvish for ‘first home’.

Can you speak Buffy?

Now the witty diction of Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been accorded the academic respect that it deserves in Professor Michael Adams’s Slayer Slang (Oxford University Press). Under headings such as ‘The Attraction of Prefixes’ and ‘Folk Etymologies’, Adams, a historian of lexicography, admiringly picks apart the language of the show. He also provides a densely annotated glossary of its peculiar words and phrases.

(Grauniad; passed along on Anarchysf by Mal Function)

Is it too good to be true? Is it too true to be good? Watch out for Blake’s 7: The Next Generation — well okay it’s really called A Rebellion Reborn.)

After the Thin Man was on telly last night. There was one scene that I recognized, with some surprise: I thought the ‘sea bass’ bit was Marx Bros.