More G&S silliness, or, "You're nothing but a pack of cards!"

I notice that I've been getting some extra hits lately on my Five-Minute Sorcerer, a copy of which I brought along to the negass marathon and loaned to cycon. I find that it holds up pretty well on the re-reading, at least for my personal enjoyment, so that's always nice. :-)

Also, I spent several hours this weekend brushing up my design portfolio website (I'll be sure to post the link when the updated site is live). In the course of sifting through my old documents, I turned up the PDF of the G&S Playing Cards that I was commissioned to make as a director gift for _opus_ during our Grand Duke (Spring 2001, yikes). The thirteen shows in chronological order are the ranks 2 through Ace; ace being high (even though, of course, for the full Grand Duke effect it ought to be lowest) sets up some lovely correspondences between the shows and the face cards. The four suits are the four cardinal roles: soprano (ingenue), contralto (battleax) or mezzo (soubrette), tenor, and patter baritone. A few liberties were taken in the mapping (partly to accommodate using Gilbert's own drawings for all the illustrations), but on the whole, they're great fun. ( To wit... )

... Gosh, it occurs to me belatedly that I should build a page about this on my actual site. Well, later. :-)

Lastly, one more thing I turned up among the documents was my Fall 2001 Pinafore filk, "Nautical Man". But I'll leave that for a separate entry!