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. Had a bit of a stressful week due to events ocurring with a committee I'm on. Did some things, didn't do some other things, spent a bunch of time worrying about whether I was doing enough or should be pushing myself to do more.


. One thing that helped counteract the stress was that this was also the week of the Howl's Moving Castle buddy read on StoryGraph, which lasted most of the week and offered something fun to keep my mind off things. At one point during the week, I found myself pondering a hypothetical cast for a TV adaptation, supposing there'd been one a few years after the book was published. The difficulty of such a hypothetical, of course, is that it wouldn't have had the budget for anyone really famous (the TV version of Archer's Goon didn't have anybody more famous than "played a villain in a middling Doctor Who story", though it had at least three of those). Or, at least, not anybody really famous now: if you timed it just right, you might be able to snag Catherine Zeta-Jones to play Miss Angorian before she got too famous and lit out for Hollywood. I didn't come to any conclusions about who might be good casting for Howell, largely because most of the Welsh actors I could think of would have been either too old or too young - I did notice that Peter Wingfield was in the right place at about the right age, and he's got a good face for it, but I still haven't actually got around to watching him in anything yet so I don't have an opinion on how well he'd do.


. At board game club, we played Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: Duel at Mt. Skullzfyre. My opinion remains what it was last time I played it, which is that I find the game mechanically interesting, but I dislike the artwork and the attempts at humour. We also played Flip 7, an abstract push-your-luck game; I did pretty well, but there were too many rounds where I pushed my luck one step too far and lost everything. I'd play it again.


. A few weeks ago, I was in the audience for the recording of an episode of a podcast game show called Inestimable, in which contestants are forced to guess at the answers to questions like "How many basketballs fit in an Olympic swimming pool" and "How many people were stabbed in the entire run of Columbo", and the audience members also put in guesses which are averaged or aggregated to get a collective guess which is put up against the contestants'. That episode has now been released.

Date: 2025-05-27 05:19 pm (UTC)
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It occurred to me, after I wrote that, that there must surely have been at least 1 radio adaptation of DWJ, but Genome wasn't playing yesterday. However, today, it was, so it looks like there have been 2, if both only 1 hr each, but nevertheless:

Howl's Moving Castle (2021), currently available to listen to here with a fairly impressive cast:

Narrator: Robert Bathurst
Old Sophie: Julia McKenzie
Howl: Iwan Rheon
Michael: Angus Imrie
Calcifer: Dan Starkey
Miss Angorian: Gwyneth Keyworth
The Witch of the Waste: Pippa Bennett-Warner
Young Sophie: Dakota Blue-Richards
Neil: Gerran Howell

& (not currently up) Witch Week (2012). For some reason, the Genome doesn't have a cast list, which is weird, but the Chrestomanci wiki does & obv with most of the cast being children, I've not heard of them, but Paul Rhys plays Chrestomanci.
Edited Date: 2025-05-27 05:20 pm (UTC)

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