Ry:
Monokai is a nice, vibrant colorscheme for Textmate that has graciously been ported to Vim by Damien Gombault.
Ry:
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But will she come in time? Oh yes just in time; whenever she comes is just in time; when we have despaired for the thousandth midnight of any such a one ever coming from anywhere, she will arrive, in a tearing hurry, breaking into or out of the last spheres of air, fire, water, earth as though throwing open the successive doors of a long corridor, down which she rushes, her hair streaming and her brow knit, her hand already beside her mouth to call into the ear of our souls Wake up.
—John Crowley, Love & Sleep
Ry:
Had to post Coralie Bickford-Smith’s eye-catching cover for the Penguin’s current “Boys Own Books” edition of G. K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday, featuring illustrations by Mick Brownfield. You can see more of Bickford-Smith’s covers for the Boys Own series at Penguin’s Flickr page.
Bickford-Smith is also responsible, along with partner/illustrator Mike Topping, for the new round of Sherlock Holmes covers Penguin, inspired by vintage movie posters. There’s a nice walkthrough of their collaborative process by Mike and Coralie accompanied by pictures of the covers over at Scamp.
As a side note, the recent Penguin Classics collections all look quite fantastic and it’s a struggle not to pick up these new editions whenever I am lingering in a bookstore.
Finn:
Did Valerie Vaughn, crime reporter, better known to her readers as Lady Danger, actually meet the ghost of a swashbuckling skipper slain a year ago by Red Sea pirates? Or did she imagine it? Private Detective Grath, hammer-fisted sleuth, wants to know the answers too—and together they find them amid the fantastic perils that haunt—“The Dead Man’s Chest!”
(↝via john k)
Ry:
Trailer for Guy Richie’s RocknRolla. It better feature a track from Priest’s Rocka Rolla on the soundtrack.
(↝via Coudal)
Ry:
Looks to be nerdiest shirt I’ve seen this year… Inspired by Ellen Raskin’s The Westing Game. Of course, I would have chosen some of Raskin’s own cover artwork. I’m happy to see the current Modern Classics edition has (mostly) restored the lovely original artwork and retired the banal covers from the 80’s and 90’s.
(↝via would you believe an Ellen Raskin image search?)
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Summer of Krull
The House Next Door relives the Summer of ‘83 in movies, featuring Krull:
Some topics for inquiry:
That Dainty Fey Hero: Who Was That Guy? Whatever Happened to Him?
Lysette Anthony, The Cleavage, The Inexplicable Enduring Love For said Dainty Fey Hero. That thing she was running around in—what was that?
Is Tim Curry In This Movie, or That Other Fantasy Movie With the Same Plot?
Ry:
Stumbled upon some great fodder for our rival to Just A Little Guy today over at Shoot!. The photos come from a book entitled The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss, which probably contains material for a couple months. Or wait, is killeranimalssayhi.blogspot.com setup already?
(↝via Shoot! The Blog)
Ry:
The French do it again. In case you are confused by the singer’s late 60’s Detroit looks and the guitarist’s spikes & studs, this is from 1980.