The Explorers Club
No. CCXVIII - Sir David Attenborough (b. 1926).







The Queue
Reading Winter: A Novel of a Berlin Family before embarking upon the "Hook, Line, & Sinker" trilogy was the right move, as already within the first third of Spy Hook I've encountered characters & events from Winter that were found nowhere in the "Game, Set, Match" trilogy. Spy Hook would be absolutely intelligible without having read Winter, but having done so adds a depth & richness to Bernard Samson's world. Score!

Autobahn
To understand the joke of the following license plate, spied when last I was in Ann Arbor, it is necessary to know the make & model of the motorcar thus licensed: an Audi TT. The license plate, which I thought rather clever, read: CELTTIC.

The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
The Blue Van, "Independence" via iTunes (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary: In honor of tonight's return/half-season premiere of Royal Pains (styled as ℞oyal Pains), one of the precious few shows on television to have an opening credits sequence. There is much to recommend the show beyond that, of course.