a belated birthday present for kradical

Classic BBC comedy Blackadder is set to return to television screens for the fifth time next year, years after the last series ended with the deaths of its lead characters.

Actor Rowan Atkinson will return as the acerbic Captain Edmund Blackadder in the eagerly-awaited episodes, which are due to be screened in early 2006.

Scriptwriter Richard Curtis plans to get around the inconvenience of having killed off his characters by revealing they'd actually survived the enemy fire which ended the First World War-set Blackadder Goes Forth, which first screened in 1989.

Tony Robinson, who played Blackadder's servant Baldrick, will also return.

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=140271610&p=y4xz7z3y6



in other news... have been mightily sick with the sore throat plague that seems to be going around. There is no other news.

when the muse bites you on the ass...

you jump.


Driving home tonight, my mind wandered from the potential epigraph of the in-progress work, to a conversational-with-myself riff on something within the epigraph, to a random sentence derived from the riff on the epigraph, to an evolution from the random sentence, to some questions about the mythology of the subject of the evolution, to a modern counterpart of the mythology, to tying it in to what I really want to say...

and in the space of three red lights (about ten minutes) I had a title, a main character, a theme with a vague structure, and a closing line that may become the opening line.


and it really is all my muse's fault. As usual.


Mind you, I have even less time than usual to write this thing, since I lost a number of badly needed days to the ick, and it's not sure if it wants to be a short story or a novella, anyway (oh damn, if it is a novella, it not only fits in well with the romantic fantasy novella seris I've been playing with, but in fact gives it a starting and finishing point, oh DAMN you lizard backbrain!).

Going to go away and have a nervous breakdown now.



And that, dear friends, is how my mind works. Scary, no?




(note 1: "epigraph" is one of those words that gets silly when you use it too often)
(note 2: the sore throat has now developed into pressure in the ears and coughing. My boss has a similar cough, about a day further along than mine. He has been informed he must die. He's cool with that.)

warning: easily amused when tired

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