"Clarissa" gave me nightmares. The slow build-up to Lovelace's act of violence was unendurable.

This comedian is brilliant, the videos uncanny.

He will blather on, and CBS (or whoever) will edit it down, excising his most insane meanderings. Good luck to that editor! These days it's pretty much all insane rambling. He's unbelievable, unbelievable. I mean, really, literally, unbelievable.

What a superb list. I second your nomination of Wilkie Collins's "No Name"!

I think every Morse fan cherished her guest stint as the perfectly suited Adele.

He gave such a subtle, nuanced performance in an outstanding Morse episode. And he played Christ in Monty Python's "Life of Brian"!

Sharing this post from Truscott because he succinctly demonstrates how blindly and how often the US has gone to this kind of war. It never ends well.

I can't wait! I remember you discussing a few of these stories.

Bryn Athen Cathedral and Glencairn Museum.

Connery, McGoohan, and McCallum--all our fave 1960s spies before they achieved international fame.