vacationing in portmeirion

for whatever reason, i've been reading the six of one, Prisoner appreciation society newslist a lot again lately, and am currently listening to this charming little BBC docu on the impact of the show on british society...found here at Britian in a Box.

finished Charles Cross's "Heavier than Heaven" this afternoon - what a frustrating read, especially after the photo section, aka, in comes Courtney, when I just felt like I had lost the character, just as everyone else had, i suppose. the psychological reading into his childhood, constructed through interviews with the Cobains, seems overinflated -- reading the signs in splayed innards -- and reminds me of solomon's bio of mozart (hey, haven't read beethoven bc i wasn't forced to TA it for four months) in its attempt to reconstruct the inner life of the artist through writing (solomon was trained in psychology, and was a better writer - so even working on legends long dead, his words seem more plausible and less cliched). regardless, a great fast summer read in my little foray into seattle.