A couple of follow-ups on stories seen on the blog this week:

Richard III Update

The discovery of Richard III’s body just doesn’t seem to be dropping from the headlines.  Here’s a link to a story about the woman, Philippa Langley, whose quest it was to find the true burial-place of Richard III.  Langley is described as a screenwriter, which is perhaps why her years-long search to get funding to dig up the parking lot where the body was found reads like plot of a film. There’s also the appeal — for Langley, not for me — of Richard III as “a brooding hero from a romantic novel.” Jane Eyre meets Richard III, I guess. Look for it  coming soon to a theatre near you – well, I’m joking, but the woman is a screenwriter.

Unlike what most articles reported the other day, the debate for where to re-bury Richard’s body is apparently still raging. There are petitions being circulated for the final resting place to be either in Leicester (current plan) or York (desired plan by the York folks). You can read about it in this article.  Here’s my favorite quote:

Scarborough council’s leader, Tom Fox, said Leicester could not be trusted with the remains after having “misplaced” the monarch for 500 years.

FWIW, the York petition currently has 2.5 times as many signatures as the Leiceter petition.

My Photography Talk

A local antiquarian bookseller here in Tübingen posted a nice write-up about my photography lecture on his blog – if you can read German, you can read it here. Quick high-level summary for those who don’t read German: the blogger really liked the talk; his one criticism was that he was surprised I hadn’t mentioned Diane Arbus, or a photography movement in the 1970s called the New Topographics. But, as he says in his write-up, I only had an hour, and I didn’t just name-drop a bunch of photographers, I  talked about aspects of the works of the photographers I did include. He actually came up to me after the talk, and we chatted for a few minutes about the constraints on trying to cover all of 20th Century American Photography in 60 minutes.

Anyway, fun to read a “review” of the talk. 🙂 He included on his blog one of my photos from Venice that I used in the talk. He also  asked me for the portrait I’d used of myself on the final slide (so he could use it on the blog). And it occurs to me that I’ve probably never put it on the blog, since it’s one of Chris’ photos of me in Barcelona last year, and I rarely have a chance to post his photos. But, since it’s now on a German-language blog, I figured I’d better post it for you all here, too. 😉

Anyway, see you on Monday!

LLM – photo by Chris, Barcelona, 2012

P.S. To all those readers in the Northeastern U.S. – stay warm and safe during the blizzard this weekend, hope it’s not as bad as they are predicting!