A Movie About Two Men and a Girl

Forty years ago, when The Third Man, one of the truly great films, was not quite forty years old, British TV had this parody. Robbie Coltrane, best remembered as Harry Potter’s Hagrid, plays Orson Welles. Also featured is the delightful Miranda Richardson, who is hilarious as Queen Elizabeth I in Blackadder II.

There’s a reference to “page 3.” I’ll let you look up “Page 3 Girl” if you don’t know what that is. I saw them everywhere on my business trips to England long ago.

Sleeping Sickness

This is my second cold in six months. Both times came after being indoors, in a crowded public place, with many people. No surprise there. As then, I checked for Covid with a negative result.

Yesterday, I must have slept 16 hours. Today, I’m on track for doing the same. This afternoon I’m finally starting to feel better.

In other personal medical news, there’s that pre-cancerous spot on my ankle. Here’s how it looked shortly after being treated with liquid nitrogen, and how it looks now. Which is pretty much how it looked when I first showed it to the dermatologist.


P.S. Colleen Doran reports that she’s tested positive for Covid after appearing at GalaxyCon in Richmond. It seems these formerly seasonal viruses have become a year-round threat.