February 2, 2014
Tags: Miss Lemon, Netflix, Poirot, The Lady Vanishes
Previously on this blog, my neighbor Gwen who knows something about just about everything had fixed my wireless connection (without my interference because I was asked to leave the house) and had cabled my computer up to the TV with the cable that she bought (so as to get the correct one on the first Read the Rest…
August 30, 2011
Tags: 'Allo 'Allo, Alfred Hitchcock, Dorothy Sayers, espionage, French resistance, Lord Peter Wimsey, paranoia, The Lady Vanishes, The Sorrow and the Pity, Wish Me Luck
I’ve slipped into one of my spy phases so even though I am compromising security, it’s currently the only thing on my mind. For purposes of this blog, all use of the word “drop” should be considered what Alfred Hitchcock called a MacGuffin: the plot device of using an often ambiguous thing which the characters Read the Rest…
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