Links Round-up

[moon_custafer]

The Kids In the Hall reunited for a series a few years back. I've only seen one sketch, but it's a sort of WKRP-scripted-by-Samuel-Beckett thing, so I'd say they've still got it.

I'd had no idea Tiny Tim performed at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival (possibly NSFW-- the footage of the festival includes some grainy low-res nudity)

Also at the Isle of Wight in 1970: Melanie, performing 'Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma.' This is one of those songs I only knew from parody versions, but the original sends chills down my spine. Additional context: this performance was at, like, four in the morning. The Who had just performed all of 'Tommy.' Melanie was the only artist brave enough to follow them (the Doors were supposed to, but they chickened out).

a_t_rain has written a story in which Chaucer's pilgrims pick up another character, whose storytelling abilities are...suspect: 'The Chatbot's Tale'

Yesterday I read Kipling's 'The Janeites' and oh damn it's good. I'm still unpacking it. (contains the usual quantities of gore and character death you'd expect in a story about WWI)

Comments

[larryhammer]

Kipling's work during and immediately after WWI is often very, very good -- both A Diversity of Creatures (published mid-War) and Debits and Credits (first post-War collection, and which has "The Janeites") are worth reading in their entirety.

[sovay]

Yesterday I read Kipling's 'The Janeites' and oh damn it's good. I'm still unpacking it.

Last night during a rough time with spatch, I asked if he wanted to see Kipling's Jane Austen RPF and showed him "Jane's Marriage" and then we sat and read Kipling for a while.

[a_t_rain]

Thanks for reccing!