Ciarán Hinds “Lookalikes”: Political Edition Plus

June 24, 2017

Ciarán Hinds is not often cast as a politician. According to the collective judgment of casting directors, he most resembles …

Linnet’s Top Posts of 2015

January 1, 2016

Happy New Year, everyone! Fittingly for this blog, my most-visited posts of 2015 all feature Beautiful Men. Or Beautiful Males, at …

January 16, 2015

This morning I had trouble waking up. As usually happens when I am lying groggily in bed, I longed for the …

November 25, 2014

Here is my list, collected from blunders on Twitter, where “Ciarán Hinds” is often confused with some other actor (I exclude the benighted Ebay …

May 30, 2014

A fondness for Led Zeppelin is unexceptionable. Even Stephen Fry, my secret arbiter of taste, likes them. When you think of …

January 17, 2014

When it comes to fandom, I am monolatrous. But I admit to having a tiny crush on Mark Rylance after …

October 28, 2013

Last night I dreamed that I went to see Waiting for Godot in New York, but instead of Ian McKellen …

October 23, 2013

According to Hugh Laurie, reading P.G. Wodehouse novels saved his life. Now, that’s my kind of Man. I’ve always thought …