When famous 1980s film-star, Steve Guttenburg invented the printing press, little did he know the impact that it would have. Put simply: it revolutionised the film industry. Whereas for ‘Three Men and a Baby’ the script was cobbled together on scraps of handwritten notes that were hastily passed between cast members (famously an entire lion-tamingContinue reading “The Legacy of Guttenburg – A Treatise on the Impact of the Printing Press”
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A Treatise on the Shifting Cast of Postman Pat: The Lost of Greendale
If we discount for the moment that Pat’s sorting depot is now better equipped than Tracy Island, and instead focus on the strange shiftings in the populace between the original series and the modern, I feel the most important and pressing issue from a humanitarian perspective is that of those subtly erased from Greendale. ThereContinue reading “A Treatise on the Shifting Cast of Postman Pat: The Lost of Greendale”
‘The Lost Goose of Tippi Hedren – A Treatise on the Futility of Avian Relocation’
It is, of course, a great irony that the lead actress of Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’, famed for her ornithophobia, should have spent the past forty years on this planet searching for a goose. After a failed yeast extracting business with her ex-husband, Peter Griffith, Hedren had set up a petting zoo in her hometownContinue reading “‘The Lost Goose of Tippi Hedren – A Treatise on the Futility of Avian Relocation’”
The Noakes and Noriega Treatise – A Modern Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
John Noakes – 83 years old 6/3/34 – 28/5/17 Manuel Noriega – 83 years old 11/2/34 – 29/5/17 John Noakes and Manuel Noriega were born within a month of each other in 1934 and died within a day of each other in 2017. Or did they? Is this too much of a coincidence? Noriega, theContinue reading “The Noakes and Noriega Treatise – A Modern Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”
A Treatise on Literary Cetaceans – The Importance of Whales in Western Literature
Obviously there’s ‘Moby Dick’. Although ‘Moby Dick’ himself rather than just literally being a whale is instead a leviathan-sized metaphor for the American pants industry – Melville’s father having been an importer of French dry goods. The character of Queequeg represents front-buttoned blue cotton pantaloons and we can certainly tell how Melville felt about them.Continue reading “A Treatise on Literary Cetaceans – The Importance of Whales in Western Literature”
Treatises of Gloria 