Who will play Jenny Wren?

With Blogue Partenaire off to the wilds of Alabama (am I allowed to say that?) for the aforementioned wedding, I have nothing better to do than sit, glassy-eyed, and muse on the human condition.

Out of sheer laziness, I invite anyone who wants to guestwrite or ghostwrite an entry to send it in, and if it’s really idiotic or brilliant, I will “publish” it. Email’s somewhere on this page.

In the meantime, what have we here?

Oh, my golly, it’s Dickens World!!!

Dickens World is a brand new, innovative [!!!] and exciting [!!!!] indoor visitor complex [huh?] themed around the life, books and times of one of Britain’s best loved authors, Charles Dickens. It will take visitors on a fascinating [!] journey through Dickens’ lifetime as they step back into Dickensian England and are immersed [!!] in the urban streets, sounds and SMELLS [emphasis added] of the 19th century.

First of all, those adjectives are like, Wow! They really pop! And for second: the SMELLS? That is hardcore!

Here’s a glimpse of Dickens World:

I know this is obvious, but isn’t it weird to build fake slums to honor the memory of a dude who was “against slums,” so to speak?

How about this:

A series of ‘burlesque’ evening dinner shows are being especially created to provide a nightly menu of ‘naughty delights’ in the ‘Free and Easy’ Victorian Music Hall.

I guess they had to appeal to the general public, after all. I’ve read a lot of Dickens, and I don’t remember any scenes of naughty burlesque.

Still, I would go. About those smells, though–are they serious? Bloated river bodies and outhouses and debtor’s prisons and all the rotten food on Miss Havisham’s dining table?

by Left Hook | 31 May 2007 | popular culture, reading, retarded | Comments