A Blog of Bosh

Green eggs and subversion
Dr. Seuss. Even his name is a mystery. We all know the characters he created: the Grinch (which he claimed was a self-portrait), Horton the Elephant, the Star-Belly Sneetches, the Whos and, of course, his most famous creation, the Cat in the Hat, who springs to the silver screen across North America [...]

Carroll birthplace put in trust’s care
THE Cheshire birthplace of one of England’s finest authors and academics has been handed over to the protection of the National Trust.Lewis Carroll was born and raised at Daresbury Parsonage, which lies in a corner of a field two miles outside the village.The double-fronted building had a lobby, parlour, study, [...]

Carroll’s photos hint at deeper childhood wonderland
Lewis Carroll is best known as the author of the Alice in Wonderland books, but the shy, stammering Oxford mathematics professor, whose real name was Charles Dodgson, was as much an accomplished photographer as he was a writer. ‘Dreaming in Pictures,’ now on view at the Art Institute, presents [...]

Kitty Litter
At one point in ‘The Cat in the Hat,’ the Cat, played by Mike Myers, is mistaken for a pinata by a group of children at a birthday party. One by one, they line up to smack him, and the scene culminates with a husky lad swinging a baseball bat directly into the unfortunate [...]

The Owl and the Pussy-cat
Peter Martin has created a beautiful set of animated illustrations for the best-known of Lear’s poems. Take a look!

Charles Causley
Charles Causley, who died on Tuesday aged 86, was among the most important British poets of his generation.Causley came to Westminster Abbey – once – for a ceremony, with appropriate music and readings, to unveil a stone to Edward Lear. ‘That was very nice,’ he remarked. ‘If church were always like that, I might [...]

The Medieval Bestiary
Here begins the book of the nature of beasts.Of lions and panthers and tigers,wolves and foxes, dogs and apes.~ Aberdeen Bestiary
I seldom recommend whole sites in this page, but this one deserves a careful exploration. You will find detailed descriptions of several manuscripts, a list of the beasts (many fantastic but all with [...]

Inbal Pinto
Inbal Pinto’s latest show, Boobies, creates a world in which characters from Edward Lear and Mervyn Peake might happily meet. On a beach sown with blue seagrass, a dropsy-bellied patriarch wages war against a sinister emerald-bearded merman. A giant warrior queen drops fledgling soldier chicks from beneath her crinoline skirt. A chorus of blue-feathered [...]

Foreign resident publishes book
Minster Giovanna Debono was the guest of honour at the launching of A Pomskizillious Recipe Book by Susan Lowe, last Sunday.After congratulating the writer, Minister Debono expressed her hope that other foreign residents in Gozo would take up a familiar inspiration to promote the island on different levels. She also thanked the [...]