Reading Up On Old TV Shows; Watching the New "Lost in Space"

 I want to note two British articles on old TV shows for you, dear reader.

The Sandbaggers: the greatest spy show ever? by Dan Lomas (Englesberg Ideas)

The long-forgotten TV series that got Dune right by Ed Power (The Telegraph)

I saw a couple of episodes of The Sandbaggers before my arrest. I do not recall how that happened, but I knew the meaning of the title above. It did make an impression on me. I learned even more reading the article, which impressed me even more. The British do literary spies better than we ever have. That includes spy shows.

I have long maintained that the SciFi Dune miniseries deserves a better reputation, and remembrance, than it gets over here. The article above makes that argument much better than I ever have.

I woke up at 4 AM, coughing and phlegmatic. I felt a little feverish. At 6, I had enough energy to call in sick. Now, I am sneezing. Yesterday, wiped me out. Ridiculous. I cannot afford to be like this. 

The other sticky trap caught a mouse. I think it was a mouse: gray upper body, white under. It is dead. I would rather be at work. The air in this apartment worries me. My eyes are watering.

Anyway, I decided I might as well do something, so I decided to catch up with the email. I read Bond or Blofeld: war, espionage and secrecy in the twenty-first century from Englesberg Ideas (I am really getting into this British outlet.) I booted up Netflix, which presented the latest version of Lost in Space. We watched the first two seasons at Fort Dix FCI. Like Star Trek, I did not see much of the original Lost in Space. Reading the reviews while in Ft. Dix, it seems many people have a great emotional investment in the original. I do not. This reboot has several good things going for it - a great robot design, and Parker Posey. The child actors should have been dropped into a star and the adults left to carry the show. 

Having finished this post, I think I will ingest some more caffeine and read a LitHub article, then probably retreat to bed.

Oh, I think I forgot to mention attending liturgy at St. Photini's, the Orthodox mission church here. Wonderful service. We went to Elm Street Brewery, as usual, and discussed the new Serbian Orthodox church coming to Muncie. St. Photini's may continue in conjunction, or it may retreat. The future is wide open, but there will be an Orthodox Christian presence in Muncie.

No sign of Rasputin.

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