Saturday Star Articles From The A&E Section
Now I quite liked ‘The Da Vinci Code‘ (you can’t spell it without ‘David‘) . It was a nice little Christmas present from Anneli. I thought it was a fast read, fun and easy, reminding me somewhat of young adult mystery novels I’ve read: slick, earnest and not too deep (even considering the revelations, ahem), so today in the Star, I was interested seeing this article by Judy Stoffman about “The Secret Supper” by Spanish author Javier Sierra, translated into English by Alberto Manguel.
It’s a novel, “set in late 15th- century Milan,” about Leonardo Da Vinci, his painting “The Last Supper“, and suspicions that Da Vinci was a Cathar. Neat.
Besides the fact that it just sounds better than TDVC, Stoffman quotes Australian critic Alan Gold as saying “any comparison between Sierra and Brown is “similar to pitting a Renaissance painter against a graffiti artist.” LOL.
This article, inspired by the TV Turn-off Week campaign, has over a full page of quotes from TV shows, like
“You have reached Ritual Sacrifice. For goats, please press `1′ or say `goats.’ To sacrifice a loved one or pet, press the pound key.”
- Answering service, Angel
and
“C-3PO (sic) wasn’t gay, he was British.”
Will, Will & Grace
and
“Far as I see it, you people been given the shortest end of the stick ever been offered a human soul in this crap-heel ‘verse. But you took that end, and you…. Well, you took it. And that’s — well, I guess that’s somethin’.”
Jayne, Firefly
“Fibs fad is no lie” talks about poems constructed based on the Fibonacci sequence.
A sort of haiku for geeks, I guess. Geeku? Hyperku? Huh. That’s all I can come up with.
Invented as a lark by blogger Gregory Pincus, they look like this, the first one:
Blogs
spread
gossip
and rumor
But how about a
Rare, geeky form of poetry?
Note the syllable count for each line.
The Star’s having a fib contest.
I might enter.