To further my earlier post about the top hat, I discovered this 1899 Huddersfield Chronicle reprint of a 1797 report of the incident:
Image © The British Library Board. Courtesy of The British Newspaper Blog.
Victoria’s Cover
PBS’s Masterpiece is airing Victoria in the US. I haven’t started watching it yet but Julie has recorded the first of the eight parts and we are going to watch it together.
I was on Amazon today and I couldn’t help but notice what is certainly one of the most beautiful cover photos I’ve seen in a very long time.
See what I mean?
I was delighted to read that season two is already in pre-production.
The cover image is likely ©ITV.
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Inauguration, or …
The writers at the Scottish Sunday Herald wrote up their television listings with a gigantic dollop of awesome sauce. This is their description of Trump’s inauguration:
After George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) wrote on twitter, “The Sunday Herald TV Section wins today,” LisaD (@BlackDogsRule) insightfully replied, “With all due respect to The Twilight Zone, this is basically an episode of Black Mirror.” So true, Lisa, so true.
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The top hat!
Lord Liverpool climbed out of his carriage at Kensington Palace on June 15, 1837, under blue summer skies. He was wearing a grey suit and a top hat — the top hat was now considered the mark of a gentleman, even though the first man to sport one in public, forty years earlier, was arrested on the grounds that it had “a shiny lustre calculated to alarm timid people.” (Four women had fainted upon seeing it, and pedestrians had booed.)
Julia Baird, Victoria: The Queen, 2016
Can you imagine? Woman fainting and the wearer being arrested!
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Schiit’s Wyrd
I got myself an early Christmas present! Schiit Audio’s Wyrd USB decrapifier.
I’ll report back when I’ve spent some time with it.
Image from schiit.com, copyright © Schiit Audio
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