#christie carmichael

[lovepollution]

What, WHAT?! 😲

(No mention of Barry Atsma/Christie returning 😒 - and "In this chapter, Abi explores the often terrifying prospect of facing new romance after divorce" seems to be referring to Hannah - but I will remain optimistic...)

[meluisart]

I'm not letting go of The Split yet! And made it a bit more queer? I've always had a soft spot for genderbending, mostly for amusement. But this one's dear to me, more than just a gimmick.

Then, while drawing this I thought 'okay but this makes the Hannah could've had Christie's kid plot point null and void'. And I sat there with that thought, and I mulled it over and you know what. Trans woman Christie. Why not. Christie is a neutral/feminine name anyway. I'm game for the thought. Might write some of it idk, we'll see. Have a lot of work to do until I can get around to it anyway hahaha

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[shortstorytournament]

Short Story Tournament

THE STRANGE CASE OF SIR ARTHUR CARMICHAEL by Agatha Christie (1933) (link) - tw: racism, death

I dreamed of cats - I continually fancied I heard him. Now and then in the distance I caught a glimpse of that beautiful animal.

YELLOW AND THE PERCEPTION OF REALITY by Maureen F. McHugh (2020) (link) - tw: brain injuries, animal distress

I will never know reality. Wanda is proof. If she can’t handle it, no one can, But I have traveled through the gathering dark and come to her. It doesn’t matter that I will never know the vibration of quantum energies, never see them or touch them.

[blackramhall]

You. You. What you've done? The blood's on your hands! Your hands! Your hands! Your hands!

Agatha Christie's The Witness for the Prosecution Julian Jarrold - 2016

Blackram Hall: The guy practically lives in a Clue board

[quotesfromall]

I had never felt more helpless. The power that defeated us was still at large, undefeated, and though quiescent for the minute we could hardly regard as doing otherwise than biding its time.

Agatha Christie, The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

[cantsayidont]

Video Killed the Radio Star

If you don't already feel sufficiently alienated from the culture of your generation, consider getting into old time radio. It's pretty easy to do: Radio was mainstream media from the 1930s well into the 1950s, and it hung on for quite a while after it started losing ground to television. There's a huge amount of programming in various genres, and a surprising amount of it survives; there was a cottage industry in OTR cassettes and CDs for many years, a lot of shows can be found in MP3 format without much effort, and some of it pops up regularly on streaming platforms.

The easiest way to get into it is if you're already got a fondness for some older Hollywood star: If they were a movie star between 1930 and 1960, there's a good chance they guest-starred in various radio shows, and they might even have had their own show for a while. For instance, do you like Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall? Around 1950, they had their own syndicated radio adventure series, BOLD VENTURE, which was essentially an extended riff on their characters in the 1944 film version of TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT. Orson Welles, of course, was a big radio star, playing the lead on THE SHADOW in 1937–38 and then bringing his Mercury Theatre company to a number of different one-hour and half-hour radio series. Vincent Price starred for several seasons as Leslie Charteris's Simon Templar on THE SAINT. And almost everyone who was anyone showed up now and again on SUSPENSE or LUX RADIO THEATRE (which produced all-star one-hour adaptations of popular movies). If you're a Superman or Sherlock Holmes fan, the radio versions of those characters are a must — Holmes was a perennial presence on English-language radio for decades.

If you want something more modern, the British kept producing generally high-quality radio dramas in surprising volume until relatively recently, including a range of both adaptations and originals. Unlike American radio, the survival rate for older British programs from the '40s and '50s is poor, but the BBC has continued periodically airing its better material from the '70s through the '00s, a lot of which has been offered on cassette and CD. For instance, there were excellent BBC radio series dramatizing the Wodehouse Jeeves and Wooster stories (with Michael Hordern and Richard Briers); Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey series (with Ian Carmichael); and Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mysteries (with John Moffat), along with standalone plays on programs like SATURDAY-NIGHT THEATRE. The big limitation with British radio dramas is that the number of British radio actors who can do convincing American accents is not high (and is definitely lower than the number who mistakenly think they can), and the availability of American actors who know how to act for radio is clearly even more limited, which can become a grating problem when dramatizing American material.

One of the reasons that listening to older (and/or British) radio shows will contribute to your cultural alienation is that it will make a lot of modern dramatic podcast series and audio dramatizations excruciating, because it will reveal to you how bad a lot of modern audio dramatists and performers are at this once commonplace art. (If you are or are contemplating doing a dramatic podcast or audio drama, please, for the love of dog, make a close study of radio shows created before you were born, and diversify enough to recognize the mediocrity of hacks like Dirk Maggs, who's been stinking up audio drama on two continents for four decades now.)

[ginandoldlace]

PreWar at the pictures: the vintage star of The Crowded Day

The vintage car hobby was so popular in Britain in the 1950s and '60s that it cropped up regularly in British cinema, and enthusiasts for the films will remember that a vintage Bentley was usually the car of choice. There were the various Three-, 4½- and 6½-Litres driven ever so stylishly by John Steed in The Avengers, and then there was The Fast Lady, the 3/4½-Litre so much coveted by Julie Christie in the film of the same name. Those who enjoy the brilliant comedic trinity of Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim and Ian Carmichael might also have clocked that it was a heavily disguised 4½-Litre which appeared as the clownish 'Swiftmobile' in School for Scoundrels. We suspect it is but few people who remember The Crowded Day. That's fair enough because it doesn't rank among the most memorable of pictures, but it has a real charm and was in some ways quite ground-breaking for the 1950s in the topics it discussed.

[thesarahshay]

A Dorothy Sayers Primer

I initially wrote this for any Shipwrecked fans who loved Honeymoon Homicide and are now curious about Dorothy L. Sayers (the author Sinead named Tracey's fictional detective after) or Busman's Honeymoon (the Sayers novel that the script was inspired by), but it works for anyone who's curious about the Lord Peter Wimsey series! Here's some info to get you started.

For Shipwrecked fans: Busman's Honeymoon is the final book Sayers wrote in the Lord Peter Wimsey series, so unfortunately you can't start there (trust me, it'd be like watching the musical episode of Buffy first). Lucky for you, the whole series is delightful!

The elevator pitch: Lord Peter Wimsey, a wealthy and amusing English aristocrat, solves murders in 1920s and '30s London with his friend Chief Inspector Parker of Scotland Yard and his faithful valet Bunter. Why you should read it: Highlights of the series include Lord Peter's nonstop literary references (guy was basically an old-timey meme factory) and the fact that, more often than not, the books are about some bigger concept in addition to having a nice tricky mystery to solve. Topics Sayers tackled include everything from the place of women in society to the way countries fail their veterans.

There are three possible ways to read them, depending on your preference.

Read the series in chronological order. The best way, IMO! The first book is Whose Body and it's delightful, but I have heard some people say they found the earlier books harder to get into until after they had read the Harriet books, hence method #2. Admittedly, she develops Peter's character a lot over the course of the series, so the Peter we initially meet has a lot of growing to do.

Read the Harriet Vane books first. About a third of the way through the series, Lord Peter meets a mystery novelist named Harriet Vane, and their relationship is covered over four of the seven books that follow: Strong Poison (book 5), Have His Carcase (book 7), Gaudy Night (book 10), and Busman's Honeymoon (book 11). It is entirely possible to read just these four and feel you've gotten a complete arc.

Read the first book, and if you're not entirely sold, skip ahead to Strong Poison. I was talked into method #2 so I can't knock it, but I usually recommend #3 for people who aren't totally sold on the premise. At least give Whose Body a try, but if you're not feeling it and/or just want to get to the relationship stuff, read the Harriet books and then go back and fill in the gaps as you like.

There you go, more information than you possibly could have wanted! Now you can choose your method and get over to your local library to get started (btw, If you plan to go the audiobook route, I recommend seeking out the versions read by Ian Carmichael). EXTRA INFORMATION (aka I'm sorry I'm like this)

Content warning: It's the 1920s, so there's gonna be some racism, classism, fatphobia, and sexism. But if you've read Agatha Christie, this is mild by comparison. There are a few slurs and references to stereotypes, but when Sayers writes an actual minority character they're complex, sympathetic human beings. For my fellow Jews, be warned that the victim in Whose Body is Jewish, but it's not a hate crime and the Jewish characters are all cool.

Other works by Sayers: This primer is focused on the Wimsey books because they were her main writing output, and everything else she did kind of requires a caveat or is in a very different vein: she wrote some plays and nonfiction, primarily about Christianity, and a translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy which I understand is very well regarded. Her only other novels were all co-written with other authors, and in my opinion don't feel particularly Sayersesque. If you read all the Wimsey books and collections and want more, The Documents in the Case is decent. I haven't read most of the rest: I am a fan, not an expert!

A full list of the novels and short story collections in order (because I'm a completist, sorry not sorry):

Whose Body (1923) Clouds of Witness (1926) Unnatural Death (1927) * Lord Peter Views the Body (1928) [collection] The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928) Strong Poison (1930) Five Red Herrings (1931) Have His Carcase (1932) Murder Must Advertise (1933) * Hangman's Holiday (1933) [collection] The Nine Tailors (1934) Gaudy Night (1935) Busman's Honeymoon (1937) * In the Teeth of the Evidence (1939) [collection] Posthumous: Lord Peter (1972) [collection of all the Lord Peter short stories] Thrones, Dominations (1998) [novel by Jill Paton-Walsh**, using an incomplete manuscript Sayers started for a twelfth Lord Peter book; questionably canon, but worth reading] The Complete Stories (2002) [collection of all Sayers' short stories]

*The collections are listed in publication order, but the stories therein happen at different periods of Peter's life and can be read any time.

**Paton-Walsh wrote three more Wimsey novels after completing Thrones, Dominations, but they should be viewed purely as fanfic (I personally do not care for them).

[figureskatingcostumes]

Yi Christy Leung's free program costume at the 2019 Cup of China.

(Photos by David W. Carmichael)

[joslincox]

The Cast of Middle School: Biology Immune

Ashanti (Douglas) as Joslin Smith-Simpson

Phil LaMarr as Osmosis Jones and Virgil Hawkins/Static

Jeff Bennett as Drixenol Koldreliff and Johnny Bravo

Kimberly Brooks as Christine Kolchuck and Buena Girl

Richard Steven Horvitz as Zim and Billy

Tara Strong as Bebe and Cece Proud and Timmy Turner

Kyla Pratt as Penny Proud

Christy Carlson Romano as Kim Possible

Kath Soucie as Phil, Lil, and Betty DeVile

Cree Summer as Miranda Killgallen, Susie Carmichael, and Numbuh 5

Cheryl Chase as Angelica Pickles

E. G. Daily as Tommy Pickles

Dionne Quan as Kimi Watanabe

Melissa Disney as Ginger Foutley

Grey DeLisle as Mandy and Vicky

Kenny Blank as Darren

Justin Cowden as Hector Cruz

Lacey Chabert as Eliza Thornberry

Tim Curry as Nigel Thornberry and Nick O'Teen

Danielle Harris as Debbie Thornberry

Flea as Donnie Thornberry

Jodi Carlisle as Marianne Thornberry

Stacie Chan as Jade Chan

James Sie as Jackie Chan

Sab Shimono as Uncle Chan

Aspen Miller as Dodie Bishop

Jackie Harris as Macie Lightfoot

Jeannie Elias as Carl Foutley

Laraine Newman as Lois Foutley

Nancy Cartwright as Bart Simpson and Chuckie Finster

Candi Milo as The Flea, Dexter, Nick Dean, and Snap

Rob Paulsen as Travis Lum and Carl Wheazer

[1973listener-blog]

"Sunshine Sisters" w/ Karen Carmichael: Christie Bruner 4-24-24: https://audioboom.com/posts/8494616-sunshine-sisters-w-karen-carmichael-christie-bruner-4-24-24

[lovepollution]

[vokpodcast]

VOK 788 - Agatha Christie Reread 41 - They Came To Baghdad

In this minipod, Bina007 discusses the Cold War thriller, They Came To Baghdad. A peace summit is to be held, with the US President and Stalin in attendance. Carmichael – a Kim figure – is going to deliver proof that an evil fifth column is working against both sides to cause global anarchy. But he dies in the room of plucky heroine Victoria Jones with three final words – Lucifer, Basrah,…

[chaos-hand]

C stands for CRIME! And also Carmichael, I guess - Agatha Christie: Th...

There will be a proper thumbnail once my main PC stops imploding. Until then, enjoy MYSTERY

[the-book-queen]

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[slidingdoorcandy]

Facing fears through art is so fucking valid.

My paranoia gets really bad at night, and the thing my brain always chooses as it’s number one possibility(besides being nuked) is that I’ll be eaten by the cannibals living under my bed and curtains.

Naturally, I have a strict routine of checking these places that, once complete, usually makes me feel Atleast safe enough to get to sleep. But sometimes, man, the voices, you know?

Só a thing that I’ve started doing is drawing the cannibals my brain conjures up. Now, I am not an artist, in the sense that my ability to draw anything not abstract is close to 0. But that doesn’t matter, cause every time I draw a new cannibal, it sort of makes them less of this intangible, unknown, deadly thing into something more manageable, I suppose?

I just figured I’d put this out there in case anyone needs it. <3

P.s.- if you name your demons, it helps humanize them. For example, my most recent have been Carly the Cannibal, Carmichael the Cannibal, Carter the Cannibal, Christie the Cannibal, etc.,