So, it is party time again, folks!

[wiseheart]

Each year this time, we launch my virtual birthday party, which starts on October 1 and ends on October 9 at midnight, sharp. The goals of the party are to post as many comments and collapse as many threads as possible, on as many new pages as we can. It is always great fun, as you can see if you check out the similar entries of the last few years.

This year, I'll also throw the real party at mid-time - and post the recipes of all the food that will be there for you, so that you can all participate if you want to. Virtual food has no calories.

Fandom-related discussions are as welcome as the ones about coffee or chocolate (just to name a few favourites from previous years), and, of course, pictures and recipes of birthday cakes. ;)

So, drop by, tell your story, post your pics or silly poems, ask questions you always wanted to ask and have a good time!

Soledad, in excited expectation




Oh, and by the way, to provide birthday gifts hobbit-style, I've got a revived story and a Kansas 2 update for you.

Enjoy!

Comments

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

It has been quite some time since I read it, but the main plot is that there is this American family that moves into the Canterville stately home which is being haunted by an old Canterville. Most of the family either ignore or make fun of the ghost, which the ghost finds very upsetting, but the daughter tries to understand him. One of the things I remember very clearly from my first reading is about a blood stain that always reappears on the floor of (I thing) the dining room; the parents make the house keeper scrub it away each morning, but the ghost puts it back every night. Eventually it appears all sorts of weird colours, because the ghost has run out of blood (or things like it) and uses one of the children's colouring boxes instead...

[sammydragoncat]

I had no idea Oscar Wilde wrote The Caterville Ghost - I have never read it, have only ever seen the movie

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I do believe I have seen the film, but I found it a bit too different to the book to properly like; I find that when I have read the book first, I can be quite judgemental about films deviating from the 'true' story...

[sammydragoncat]

My Mom likes the movies, so I first saw it when I was really young. Generally speaking - the book is better than any movie version of it.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I only see the version with Patrick Stewart and I quite liked it. But it was because Patrick Stewart, mostly.

There used to be a hilarious theatre version in Hungary, with a female ghost. Poor thing was biting her long fingernails in frustration and kept repeating: "They are insane! They are all insane!" There was also a nanny who kept fainting whenever the ghost appeared. It was a great performance, with the best comical actors of the capitol playing in it, so even if it wasn't always true to the original, it was amazing.

[sammydragoncat]

I have seen that one too - but I like the 1944 version best (mostly because it's the first one I ever saw).

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

There is a version of The Canterville Ghost with Patrick Stewart in it? I will have to go searching for it; I love that man! He isn't just a great actor, he seems to be a genuinely good man, too. His work to with Amnesty protect women from violence, for example, saying if society listens to old white men he will use the fact that he is one to speak up for those it doesn't listen to.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I've seen Stewart on stage twice now, and he's got a powerful stage presence.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I have had the great fortune of seeing Stewart in Stratford-upon-Avon twice: First in The Tempest and then in Hamlet. As you say, he has a very powerful stage presence!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Was that the Hamlet production with David Tennant? I saw that in Stratford and thought he upstaged Tennant by miles. The other play was Ibsen's The Master Builder, in which he was brilliant.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

ooohhh... I had totally forgotten that film - I remember it as being fun. I'll have to try and see if it on dvd or anything here.

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I may give this a try someday.