4 Brumaire CCXVI (October 25, 2007)
All Things Are Ready, If Our Minds Be So
Being a bad (lapsed) Catholic, it took somebody else to remind me that today is St. Crispian's/St. Crispin's Day. (Crispian and Crispin are different saints, but according to an encyclopedia of saints they were canonized on the same date, are patrons of the same causes, and share the same feast day. Certainly cuts down on confusion, at least.) Not that that really means much to me, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to post this clip, probably the best two and a half minutes of Kenneth Branagh's career:
There are people who claim the Lawrence Oliver version is better, but I've never seen it and can't find a copy anywhere on the 'net at the moment.










