Meeting Your Heroes

The way to the bottom of my heart might be windy... prononunced wine-dy (I wish there were a way to disambiguate that as I've mentioned before)... but it's down there somewhere, and from that bottom I heartily recommend making one's friends one's heroes. 

 Look how many turned up to the show on Saturday night (Tickets here!) Some I hadn't seen offline since before the pandemic. Some I'd seen out Ripper Walking in the Summer. Two are getting married. One's just been confirmed as the new voice of Wallace. One's working on the fourth and final series of The Monster Hunters. One's going to be working at Heathrow Airport on Christmas Eve as a mime. One really liked Del Toro's "Pinocchio", and thought I would too – Sorry, Kevin. So I haven't witten more about that copy of the Daily Mail from 1946, Sorry. But of course you don't just stave off the darkness of this season by putting lights up, you also get busy reuniting.

 (I will let you read that story a little closer though, in case yesterday's image was too small. It's stunning to see how little time following the end of the actual Second World War it took some papers to see things from the fascists' point of view again... Also, an odd choice of defense of tactic from Goring on the right there...)

The Persistence of Memory Round

 I noticed, on the walk I took on Sunday evening, that the moon – like myself – had risen a little later than the day before, and I was reassured by this. Previously I had known only theoretically that it couldn't always show up on time for nightfall, as that's not how orbits work, but my regular urban surroundings had never been flat enough to prove it. I missed the city's pavements, though. The roads between these villages are fringed instead with ditches. I assume that's so you'll crash your car if you skid, rather than drive over a vine. You've got to protect the vines. 

 When I got home, my laptop died – or at least coudn't be woken – and I spent the next few days trying to bring it back to life, which is why this post is actually going out on the night of Wednesday the 22nd. Now the factory settings have been restored though, here, by the light of Sunday's moon, is another quiz for you, this one from August. Match the following ten Surrealist titles: 

 

"The Decoy"... 

"Disturbing Presence"... 

"Floor 4706"... 

"Men Shall Know Nothing of This"... 

"The Persistence of Memory"... 

"Hamlet"... 

"The Son of Man"... 

"Stage Fright"... 

"The Uncertainty of the Poet"... 

and finally, "Bicycle Wheel"...  

 

to the following ten Surrealist works. And I'll post the answers in the comments.

 

1. René Magritte, 1964

 

 

 2. Salvador Dali, 1931

 

 3. Remedios Varo, 1959

 

 

4. Marcel Duchamp, 1913 (originally, but pretty easy to throw together, and repeated since)

 

 

5. Gertrude Abercrombie, 1952

 

 

6. Giorgio de Chirico, 1913

 

 

7. Man Ray 1949

 

8. Leonora Carrington,  1958

 

 

9. Edith Rimmington, 1948

 

 

10. Max Ernst, 1923

 

The Natalie Portmanteau Round

 How best to explain this round from September? Maybe I should make having to work out how to play it a feature, rather than a bug.... It's basically a Star-Wars-related "Answer Smash" (two answers elided into one). For example, the answer to the above picture clue is "Judith Hann Solo", as that's a picture of Tomorrow's World presenter Judith Hann on the left, and the actor who played Han Solo on the right (and because I felt that Kathryn Hahn might be even harder to identify than Judith Hann, so went with the standardised pronunciation of "Han", father than the canonical.) The rest I'll let you work out for yourself. It won't always be a person on the left – it might be a show or a thing or a place – but it will always be an actor who played a character in Star Wars on the right, although I haven't actually included Natalie Portman in the end. And I don't care about the spelling. Aswers will be posted in the comments. Chwat!

 

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The "Mitchell Beazley Joy of Knowledge Library's Book Of Man and Society" Round

What are those pixels hiding? A lady nipple? Is it, somewhere, cock o'clock? (Source.)

 

 Anyway, back to the quiz!

 If any of these images are slightly familiar, it's because I've been to the Mitchell Beazley well once before, here. I don't have the book with me now, alas, to show you, but it's made up of heavily illustrated, two-page chapters, so each of the following illustrations comes from a different chapter, and I've jumbled up the titles. That's right. Jumbled. Can you unjumble them? Have you the time and inclination to scroll endlessly up and down this page and do that? Can't you just leave things as they are? I'll post the correct answers in the comments, for all the good it will do you.

 

1. How the brain works

 

 

 

2. Moral development

 

 

3. Adolescence

 

  

4.  "Keeping fit"

 

 

5. Thinking and understanding 

 

6. Adulthood from 20 to 30

 

 

7. Behaviour therapy

 

8. The meaning of ritual

 

 

 

9. Body image and biofeedback

 

 

 

10. Potential of the mind

 

 

11. Prejudice and group intolerance

 

12. Birth control

 

13. Alcoholism and drug abuse

 

14. Work: curse and pleasure

15. Family of man: how peoples differ

16. Origins of human society

 

17. Religion and the plight of modern man

 

18. Development of surgery

 

 

 

19. Diseases of the nervous system

 

20. What is philosophy

The Caspar Salmon's Idea For A Film Quiz Round

  

 I want to play, whoever you are, Caspar! Back in September, therefore, I went through the responses to this and nicked my favourite ones for a round, that's literally all I did (so don't click on the link yet if you want to play too). Contained in each of the following films' titles is another film. As a clue, I've given you the name of that other film's director, as well as one of its actors, but whut's the other fillms? I'll post the correct answers in the comments, unless you can spot any more. And chwat!

1. Heathers

Director: Michael Mann. Actor: Val Kilmer. 

 

2. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

 

Director: M. Night Shyamalan. Actor: Gael García Bernal.

 

3. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

 

 

Director: Kenneth Branagh. Actor: Anthony Hopkins.

 

 

4. Take Shelter

 

Director: Ken Loach. Actor: Brian Glover.

 

5. Geronimo: An American Legend

 

Directors: Ron Clements and John Musker, Don Hall and Chris Williams. Actor: Dwayne Johnson. 

6. Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

 

Director: Fritz Lang. Actor: Peter Lorre.

 

 

7. The Talented Mr. Ripley

 

 Director: Seth MacFarlane. Actor: Mila Kunis.

 

 
8. Barb & Star Go To Vista del Mar

 

 

Director: Ben Affleck. Actor: Ben Affleck.

 

9. It's a Wonderful Life

 

Director: James Wan. Actor: Danny Glover.

10. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

 

Director: Alan Parker. Actor: Gene Anthony Ray.