#jack bannell

[drowningparty]

Jack Bannell in the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 2017.

[blysse-and-blunder]

in lieu of a commonplace book gets vaccinated

sunday, may 16, 2021, 8:30pm

guess who got the first round of danger juice this weekend!! at a museum!!

(black sails and mdzs donghua spoilers below the cut)

reading after discussing it a little while ago with @switchoffthestars in the bannel, i got dianna wynne jones’ magicians of caprona on libby this week. it is so refreshing to read a really elegantly, thoughtfully written kid’s book! dwj is so smart! even though the details of this ~italian~ city and its warring factions of magicians does feel, a lot, like the way someone would depict italy if your main points of reference were, say, romeo and juliet. but the song-based magic system and the cats are just so fun. the third-person-limited perspective carefully tailored to the different Montana brothers and varying according to their ages! the chrestomanci of it all! ETA: forgot to mention, that it’s specifically refreshing to read a book like this after some of the novels i’ve been slogging through this spring. because it’s for a younger audience, it’s got different limits to work within, but it achieves an equal or higher level of sophistication in greater economy of language and image. god. the hands of a master.

watching i had season two black sails playing to keep me company yesterday as i finished filing my taxes argh and now that the backstory is really popping off, i can see why people get wound-up about this show. SPOILERS since i was tuning in and out, it just made it even more apparent how much more into the past-storyline, with the hamiltons and the ~scandal~, than i am with the current-storyline!! aside from billy showing back up (SAW THAT COMING) and whatever anne and jack (and max, if only they spent a little more time on her personality!) have going on. if i never see or hear charles fucking vane’s face/voice again, i will be most content.

today after a lovely excursion downtown on my bike to sit in a backyard with some vaccinated pals and bask in the sunshine, i flopped down and watched the mdzs donghua episodes 8-10 or so. SPOILERS i will hand it to this version, the xuanwu combat works so much better as animated here-- the fact that wei wuxian sees the sword in a wound in the xuanwu’s side and reaches for it like that, and then gets swallowed, makes so much more sense than whatever wandering? inside the monster’s shell? that cql makes him do??? (did he crawl up its butt please don’t answer that) seeing lan zhan cry in the cave was...unsettling. but his expression was excellently awful. also it was only during these eps that it occurred to me, is the ‘sun shot’ campaign called that because of wang lingjiao’s ridiculous claim that the poor little jiang boy was trying to ‘shoot down the sun’??? not that anyone believed that, and not that any of the witnesses to her claim survive hahaha oh no but it’s nice to think that whoever picked that name was like ‘actually, you know what?? YEAH WE WILL’

listening it has taken me mumblemumble tries to finish Critical Roll campaign 1 episode 100. not just because it’s a long one-- just, something would come up or i’d lose my place or another ep would start playing (i listened to its talks machina recap before i listened to it, just by lazily letting my phone play ‘the next ep’ and then not...realizing). but i finished it today, and also 101 and its tm. they kept me company on my bike-rides. i like when they laugh. i like when they tease each other, or make absurd jokes and references i get. whatever’s happening in the plot, it’s getting dark, and...that’s really all i absorbed.

playing d&d this week, we made it out of literal hell after exiting the Dantesque inferno we’ve been in for the past couple of weeks. we’re headed into the next underworld tomorrow (Egyptian, i think?) and i think we’re all braced for what could possibly come next. it was a little anticlimactic, we didn’t leave as a result of any combat, but the grinding, punishing details of just progressing through the different circles’ landscapes (the last one had a river of boiling blood and a sky that rained fire, we all had to make con saves) has definitely had their own impact.

making baked biscuits friday morning, the first time i’ve roused ursula the little bear sourdough starter in weeks. they turned out well! decent layers, good flake on the bottoms. a solid bake. nothing else. the repaired soap dispenser has not fallen apart and is happily dispensing soap. feels good.

working on this time next week, i’ll have gone through my field exam. it’s on thursday. i’m meeting with a friend on tuesday afternoon for her to ask me practice questions, and i’m going to spend tomorrow trying to make as many additional notes and annotations to my existing stuff as possible, hopefully organized enough that i’ll be able to quickly find things during the conversation. god willing and the creek don’t rise, this is nearly over!!!

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Chums Come To Rescue In Water,” Toronto Globe. June 20, 1932. Page 9. ---- Two drownings, one in Toronto Bay and other at Scarboro’ Beach, were narrowly averted by prompt action on the part of the chums of the near-victims over the week-end. Left to right are: Ernest Gilbert and his friend, Charles (Bob) Bannell, who rescued him when they were attempting to swim across the Bay; Remato Bassener and his friend, Jack Perrin, whom he saved at peril of his own life when young Perrin was knocked over by a wave at Scarboro’ Beach. Life Guard Birdsall brought both the boys to shore.

[drjekyiiandmrhyde]

Last night I went to see The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

[firstnightdesign]

The play that changed the way I think about Shakespeare – Telegraph I hope you can stop yourself from gritting your teeth when you see how the original article spells Shakespeare!

[cat-i-the-adage]

Macbeth - Blood Will Have Blood - http://bloodwillhaveblood.net/

- Educational reimagining of the Scottish Play by China Plate and Contender Charlie

[cat-i-the-adage]

Macbeth - Blood Will Have Blood - http://bloodwillhaveblood.net/

- Educational reimagining of the Scottish Play by China Plate and Contender Charlie

[cat-i-the-adage]

Macbeth - Blood Will Have Blood - http://bloodwillhaveblood.net/

- Educational reimagining of the Scottish Play by China Plate and Contender Charlie

[cat-i-the-adage]

Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?

Macbeth - Blood Will Have Blood - http://bloodwillhaveblood.net/

- Educational reimagining of the Scottish Play by China Plate and Contender Charlie

[cat-i-the-adage]

Macbeth - Blood Will Have Blood - http://bloodwillhaveblood.net/

- Educational reimagining of the Scottish Play by China Plate and Contender Charlie

[cat-i-the-adage]

Macbeth - Blood Will Have Blood - http://bloodwillhaveblood.net/

- Educational reimagining of the Scottish Play by China Plate and Contender Charlie

[cat-i-the-adage]

Macbeth - Blood Will Have Blood - http://bloodwillhaveblood.net/

- Educational reimagining of the Scottish Play by China Plate and Contender Charlie

[cat-i-the-adage]

Macbeth - Blood Will Have Blood - http://bloodwillhaveblood.net/

- Educational reimagining of the Scottish Play by China Plate and Contender Charlie

[cat-i-the-adage]

Macbeth - Blood Will Have Blood - http://bloodwillhaveblood.net/

- Educational reimagining of the Scottish Play by China Plate and Contender Charlie

[cat-i-the-adage]

Macbeth - Blood Will Have Blood - http://bloodwillhaveblood.net/

- Educational reimagining of the Scottish Play by China Plate and Contender Charlie

[cat-i-the-adage]

Macbeth - Blood Will Have Blood - http://bloodwillhaveblood.net/

- Educational reimagining of the Scottish Play by China Plate and Contender Charlie