Comments for Hooting Yard

Comment on On Mary Anning by Outa_Spaceman Being:53

Outa_Spaceman Being:53 — Tue, 22 May 2012 19:53:37 +0000

I am not unfamiliar with the syncro-woohoo that surrounds Hooting Yard and when I find myself in it’s mind-swimming clutches I force myself to listen to 3 hours of Little Atoms podcasts.
That usually does the trick.

BTW I have a completely different understanding of “Mary Anning” which I’d suggest was a verb.

Comment on On Mary Anning by R

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:01:11 +0000

A grim nanny!

Comment on The Song Of The Borts Of Pray by Frank Key

Frank Key — Mon, 21 May 2012 11:12:36 +0000

Mr Vertue : Many thanks!

Comment on The Song Of The Borts Of Pray by George Vertue

George Vertue — Mon, 21 May 2012 10:57:25 +0000

Sorry, me again!
I just checked the DNB and Beverland isn’t there. Strange, I have definitely seem him written up somewhere.

Comment on The Song Of The Borts Of Pray by George Vertue

George Vertue — Mon, 21 May 2012 10:52:55 +0000

‘Little Gibson’ is a reference to the art dealer and miniature painter Richard Gibson, who was a dwarf. ‘Long Browne’ is the art dealer and painter Alexander Browne. ‘Little Davits’ is Edward Davis, an engraver and art dealer – all three were active in London in the 1690s when Beverland was there (as was Pierce Tempest, the print seller).

Beverland is written up in the Dictionary of National Biography, there will be a bibliography of sources for him at the bottom of the entry. Quite a few of his papers ended up in the British Library.

Comment on On Get Wheatear by Frank Key

Frank Key — Sun, 20 May 2012 05:15:46 +0000

R : Alas, though I am grateful to you for bringing my – and readers’ – attention to ‘Get Wheatear’, it is not the film from which the still was taken. Nor was it from the blood-drenched sequel ‘Bring Me The Head Of A Wheatear’, in case you were wondering.

Comment on On Get Wheatear by R

Sat, 19 May 2012 23:47:13 +0000

So do I win the prize? Or was the still – http://hootingyard.org/archives/9197 (showing the glamorous Glenda sprawling in a wheatfield) – actually from a ‘Get Wheatear’ remake, prequel, sequel etc.?

Comment on (Birds Chirping) by R

Sat, 19 May 2012 07:54:49 +0000

Get Wheatear

Comment on On Aphinar by R

Thu, 17 May 2012 00:02:11 +0000

>One cannot even be sure that ‘Aphinar’ is what Rimbaud said …

Perhaps it was actually ‘Piranha’, and Isabelle heard it anagrammatically?

Comment on On Ilg by R

Tue, 15 May 2012 17:09:15 +0000

Alfred Ilg / glad rifle / rag-filled … his Ethiopian achievements in a nutshell …