Barmy Blue's Bland Blog

…lightning.
It was supposed to be called Rain Thunder Lightning and I’d have started by saying in that order but I couldn’t fit lightning into the title .
Bucketing it down over here, lightning flashing and screwing with the TV reception and thunder rumbling almost continually.
Ah, an English summer .
I was supposed to feed the birds today. I’m not going out there now.
I’m in rather a happy mood. While looking through the TV guide last night, out of boredom….
Hailstones again and I just had a tricky encounter with the front door. The doormat got stuck under it and it wouldn’t shut.
Now I think the guttering’s leaking. Hold on….
Okay, I called mum and she said to tell dad so I called dad and told him.

Now, TV guide, boredom. Ah yes. I discovered that BBC 3 are showing the last Christmas episode of Doctor Who, it’s on at the same time as Eastenders but Mum’s never home in time to see it and it’ll be repeated later on BBC 3. Then the first one of series 3 is due to be shown on Friday. Yay! I missed the Doctor Who Confidential for that one, both times.

Ah, now it’s sunny for the first time today since I woke up.
For some reason, I’ve started reading Mum’s Dean Koontz book, Frankenstein, Book one, Prodigal Son. I don’t know why. I tried reading Dean Koontz once or twice before without much success but I’m anxious to know the story of this one. Sometimes, if it’s a good enough book mum would tell me the story of it as she went along. She did that on Saturday. She’s onto chapter 12, I’ve just got up to chapter 6. I don’t understand why I’m reading it. I have my own to read, six of them in fact. I guess it’s because the title interests me and I recently saw a Frankenstein film. It got me wondering though. How is the monster portrayed in the book? (I haven’t read it, though I’m thinking about it, along with Dracula too, possibly). Because I’m curious to know where the modern idea of the Frankenstein monster, with the flat head and the bolts and the green face actually came from because that’s the most common version of him. I first started wondering when I saw Van Helsing, because that wasn’t quite the same as the usual depiction of the monster. I read an article in an old magazine (that Miller had us looking through to help us for our synoptic paper, didn’t help in the slightest I must add). I came across an article about the portrayal of women in the book and various film adaptations and became engrossed in it. Then I recently saw one of the film adaptations to which it referred, It’s because of that article that I was so determined to see the film when it came on. If I didn’t already know the basic story and someone told it to me, that’s the version of the monster that I’d have thought most fitting, different parts all sewn together. The giant green man with the flat head who walked around holding out his arms would seem rather silly. But where did he come from? Was he described in the story? And if he was then why is there another version which reminds me of a rag doll sewn together out of scraps from other rag dolls? I know which one I find more convincing, knowing the basic jist of the story.
I was just wondering. I guess another thing that adds to my interest is that I’ve been giving names to the bounty hunters. Bounty hunters have a first and last name, even though they’re usually made up, it just looks better on their dog tags. They usually take characters from fiction or history that they’ve heard about and find fitting, like Attila the Hun (Or Attila Hun on his tags), Genghis Khan, Vlad the impaler (Or Vlad Impaler on his tags) so called because he loves stabbing and therefore impaling people, plus he thought the name just sounded cool. There’s also Dr Victor Frankenstein, so called because of another bounty hunter who the others call (though not to his face) Frankenstein’s Monster. You guessed it, Dr Frankenstein made him. He’s always on the look out for new parts to make more and often studies people but he’s not allowed to resume his practice, he’s hopeful though, that one day he can make more, once the other bounty hunters lower their guard.
Well, I’ve rambled on long enough again.

Bluebiird out.