I see "claret" mostly in English fiction and thought they were weak-ass watered down red wines. It took #VincentPrice to explain that those California reds I used to enjoy, like #Zinfandels and #Barberas, are indeed clarets, but the North American custom is to refer to the grape and not the classification.

I'm sorry, #EvelynWaugh, #NancyMitford, #AnthonyTrollope, and #PGWodehouse, for believing for scores of years your characters could not handle real alcohol.

I've had a lovely time this evening working on what's turning out to be a novelette or novella. (Projected length: 15k words.)

The plot involves Bertie Wooster and Jeeves accidentally traveling in time and meeting the Buddha. It's fun to write, although creating something that can pass for Wodehouse's style is challenging. The man was a fiendishly clever stylist.

The best part is the research: reading tons of Wodehouse.

#WritingCommunity
#PGWodehouse
#JeevesAndWooster

Mischief & Misadventures

A review of Flabbergasted! A Comedy Roleplaying Game published by The Wanderer’s Tome.

https://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2025/02/mischief-misadventures.html

#reviewsfromrlyeh #rpgreview #rpgreviews #rpg #PGWodehouse #JeevesAndWooster
#ttrpgs #ttrpg

Almost all of the Fry & Laurie “Jeeves & Wooster” is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHxC5fTU2oVbTLQ7WayDiYlnlHPjuOk6Z

The “Tuppy and the Terrier” episode nearly killed me by asphyxiation when it aired on PBS in the ‘90s because I was laughing so hard.

#PGWodehouse #JeevesAndWooster #PBS #BBC #StephenFry #HughLaurie

I finished The Algebraist. Really liked it. I think some might have felt the ending was anticlimactic, but I enjoyed it. Need to pick up more books from him.

As a quick palette cleanser I’m reading Quick Service by Wodehouse. It could definitely make an interesting little play. Hijinks in a manor house and all that.

#Reading #SciFi #Algebraist #IainMBanks #PGWodehouse

After reading "Minima Moralia" and '"The Age of Diagnosis", I feel the urge to read something lighter.

Paging P.G. Wodehouse...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blandings_Castle_and_Elsewhere

#Books #MinimaMoralia #TheAgeOfDiagnosis #BlandingsCastle #PGWodehouse