Bluebeard

You may be interested in the parallels between Bluebeard and Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber", but if you'd rather watch some moving images, there's a short selection here.

A cutesy (or not) animated version of the story:



A slightly darker (and shorter) animation:



And an excuse to embed this song by Band of Horses:

A Bit of Jane and Eyre

From the BBC comedy sketch show A Bit of Fry and Laurie, which ran from 1987 to 1995. For more "bits", visit the BBC Comedy website or the The “A Bit of Fry & Laurie” sketch archive, where you'll find scripts to accompany the video clips.

Nosferatu

Presumably there's a good reason why Nosferatu didn't make it into this fansite's top 27 Dracula movie list. Ah, 27, the magic number...

John Sutherland

John Sutherland regularly writes for the Guardian, and you can access his articles via his Guardian profile.  If you're really curious about the man, you could spend / waste some time listening to his appearance on Desert Island Discs.

Punctuation Links

A couple of links to online punctuation guides: Oxford Dictionaries ought to be pretty reliable, but just the name of the Correct Punctuation website makes me feel a little anxious.  If you have a look and find anything that you think might not necessarily be 'correct', please let me know.

Semicolons

I like this piece of advice from Kurt Vonnegut (pictured left) on a piece of punctuation that I've never been particularly enamoured with:


“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.” 

― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country


I hid this quotation away somewhere in my feedback on Group 5's diagnostic writing, so I'm not sure who's seen it.  Any comments below would be welcome...