strange radiation: the pool of radiance archive
Adventures with an unreliable narrator.
Aug 15 05: change and counterchange
One thing I did not realize back when I saw my first Punch and Judy show last June was that the bleed-through of current events into the script was not a new thing. Apparently, Hitler and Mussolini did time in Mr. P’s rogues’ gallery, too, back in their day; and now Osama bin Laden is just doing the same. Who knew?
However, it seems that I’m not the only one to find the whole thing kind of unsettling: a Professor in a seaside town in England has been asked to take bin Laden back out of his show. Whether this is a blow for or against Punch and Judy tradition, I am not qualified to say. (via Neil Gaiman.)