Fandom: "The thing about a melting pot is that not everyone melts at the same speed ..."

Like many other SF geeks, I perked up on hearing that a Discworld City Watch television series is being developed (CSI: Ankh-Morpork, as everyone has it). So here's a delightful related video of a pitch meeting between Sir Terry and various television creative people:

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[Also: Capitalism may be to blame for the lack of life on the planet Mars, Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday. One trusts he is being rhetorical, as is his wont.]

[Also also: Diane Duane's advice for ridding oneself of a creeper who declares, "I like you!" and proceeds to follow you on your shopping expedition: "Just stop and draw him a picture of the big-fanged man-eating ghost eggplant you see plastered to his back."]

[Also cubed: "I'm sorry, but we can't send a search-and-rescue team into Plato's cave."]

Curiosa: Tragical-historical-comical-pastoral ...

From a nineteenth-century playbill advertising a "Comic, Heroic, Operatic, Tragic, Pantomimic, Burlesque, Burletta Spectacular Parody, under the Title of DON GIOVANNI" at the Royal Circus and Surrey Theatre on 1 February 1819 (during the ill-fated tenure of Dibdin as manager):

THE SCENERY (having most of it appeared before) has been (of course) already received with unbounded acclamations of Applause, and will be repeated as often as the Manager can write Pieces to introduce it. The views are intended to represent several Places in and near the city of Seville (in Spain); with (by way of Pictorial Episode) a fine Scene of Blackfriars Bridge, taken in the Circus. There will also be a New Moon, which is expected to be full about the time of Half Price.

The DRESSES are as good as the Proprietor can possibly afford; and The PROPERTIES are of very little use to any but the Owner.

Also, at the end of the cast list it is indicated that THE MARBLE HORSE will be portrayed "BY A REAL PONEY; (except in the 2d Scene of Act II.) when, being made of Wood, it can only be said to live in the Reputation of the Painter." I can't think why Dibdin wasn't more successful; his jokes aren't any worse than those of his contemporaries and he seems to have a proper sense of economy.

Must have at my "the Ember Island Players in the postwar era" story at some point.

Personal Note: Jaw-droppingly heroic!

Sniggled from cleolinda: Man swims through tsunami to rescue wife and AGAIN to rescue mother. And is still acting as a one-man SAR team now. Even the slightly less hyperbolic reports are awesome.