Episode 227: Other Buopoths Do
February 3rd, 2017 | Robin
Another all-request episode starts in the Gaming Hut, where Patreon backer Gerald Sear wants us to consider the Mythos implications of the Disney corporation.
Then assemble your miniature greenhouses and sail over to the History Hut, where we make up interesting facts about botanist and tea smuggler Robert Fortune at the behest of backer Steve Sick.
Backer Theron Bretz revs up the projector in the Cinema Hut, as we tackle Spy Movies 101.
Then the Consulting Occultist unfurls some alchemical wisdom on a Paul Tevis request for the skinny on the Ripley Scrolls.
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At the risk of being precipitate – this episode doesn’t seem to be up on the Apple Store yet.
No matter – it’s available now.
If anyone is looking for a connection between Walt Disney and Strange Geometries, Disney did visit the Winchester Mystery house for inspiration while designing Haunted Mansion. It might be fun to play Disney and his team of Imagineers visiting haunted locals looking for ideas and getting far more than they reckoned.
I’m planning Disney Imagineering crossed with Cocteu Dreamlands to create a beauty and the beast style Disney Haunting with a third characters portraying a “cute and friendly Ghoul” as horror comedy.
I’m planning Disney Imagineering crossed with Cocteu Dreamlands to create a beauty and the beast style Disney Haunting with a third character portraying a “cute and friendly Ghoul” as horror comedy.
I looked up the Ripley Scroll in Cambridge, out of curiosity… and realised that I saw it a few weeks ago. It’s in the Fitzwilliam Museum, who may not always have it on display, but who did feature it in an exhibition on illuminated manuscripts. It wasn’t the prettiest thing in the exhibition, but it was probably the weirdest.
Exhibition closed last month, unfortunately.
Oh, and I gather that anyone who dips into the history of gardening soon discovers the Wardian Case. One can find pictures of some wonderfully baroque examples online.
Aside from their essential function in transporting plants, they were also useful to anyone simply trying to grow plants in polluted Victorian cities. One imagines a General Sternwood type in a smoky steampunk setting having a fine collection.
Baron Rheede has a groovy funeral procession: http://www.atlasofmutualheritage.nl/nl/De-lijkstatie-Baron-Rheede-Suratte.4354