Richard Armitage Community Pinterest Board

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Since the Community Board created by Celebrity Expose has been deleted and all of the lovely pins along with it, we needed another one! Thanks to all of you who have asked to be part of this. I’m still processing the names. Please know that it does not require an invitation to look at the board. It’s only if you want to pin there. And about pinning I want to say a few words.

First, your pin should be something to do with Richard Armitage. It does not have to be a picture of him, but if it’s not, the chance of the picture being clicked on is less likely. LOL! Second, it’s best to pin something you find on the web that has a graphic. When you add, it will prompt to find images, and if there is more than one image, you can scroll until you find the one you want pinned to the board. Third, if you pin to the wrong place, no biggie. Erase it and start over. No one is going to whop you on the head if you get it wrong, and Pinterest doesn’t immediately send a notice to followers. So if you erase quickly, no one will know! Don’t ask me how I know this. :D Fourth, you can invite others to the board once you’re authorized to pin. I leave that up to your judgment, and as long as people pin RA or RA related items and no one starts pinning NSFW* items, it’s cool.

That’s all I can think of at the moment. So I’m off to pin something on the board. Namely all of the Richard III stuff I think others might want to read.

Here’s just a sample of what you can see:

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A beautiful graphic of Thorin by Angie K. Long

Top graphic by TeeTotally

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*NSFW means ‘not safe for work’ and usually includes nude photos, but I think we all need to keep in mind that kids look at these boards. So if you want to pin something that leads back to what you wouldn’t want your kids to see or your nieces and nephews or any other kids you may know, then don’t pin it please.

February 4, 2013
Categories: Fandom . Tags: , , , . Author: RAFrenzy . Comments: 5 Comments

Richard Armitage Community Pinterest Deleted

The board that many of us were using at Celebrity Expose is now gone and the pins along with it. I’ve started another one here. Please let me know if you want to participate. Even if I leave the fandom, which I don’t plan on doing, but if I did, I would make sure this stays. So won’t you join me? And maybe it’s better the board is not associated with something as massive as the other board. Me thinks they probably got in legal trouble and that’s why they went away. It’s doubtful this will happen to us.

February 4, 2013
Categories: Fandom . Tags: , . Author: RAFrenzy . Comments: 10 Comments

Finding Richard III

The news is in that yes, the bones found under the public housing parking lot in Leicester are indeed those of Richard III. Any of you following along should have expected this. When the news of a televised special about the King was announced, it seemed obvious the finding would go only one way; otherwise, the parties involved could have been setting themselves up for a Geraldo Rivera moment.

Where does all of this find us? If you have an affinity for history, this has to whet your appetite for more. I know it does mine. But as a Richard Armitage fan, I find myself wondering about Philippa Langley. I’m intensely curious about her. According to reports I’ve read, she has written a play about Richard III and now would like to mount a drama about him that may involve Richard Armitage. I would love to know much more about her as a writer and in particular a screenwriter.

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Philippa Langley at the Richard III dig in Leicester

After the Richard III Special is done today, I’m going to tune in to a live Q&A with her and Professor Lin Foxhall, Head of the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester. I’m not sure how much I will learn about Ms. Langley’s writing, but my curiosity will ensure I’m listening to every word she says and hoping the format is conducive to asking some questions about the possible drama. I hope you will be listening as well, and if you have any questions about how to do that, please let me know.

February 4, 2013
Categories: Interviews, Movies, Richard III . Tags: , , , , , . Author: RAFrenzy . Comments: 6 Comments

Richard, I’m Available for Technical Assistance ;-)

Yes, I really said that. LOL!

I was just listening to Dave Andrews’ show on BBC Leicester, and he read Richard Armitage’s email informing Dave that he couldn’t make it on the show. He had wifi but couldn’t make a call.

Richard, Richard, Richard,

It’s called Skype or Google phone or any number of other VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) phone services. ;-)

Man, if you need help with this, I’m your girl. We can get around those pesky federal regulations. ;-) ;-)

Signed,
One of your crazy fans who loves to give technical support.

Fat chance I’ll ever get to do that, but hey, what the heck? I never thought I would be blogging successfully for almost three years, and here I am.

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I need to clear something up! VOIP is not allowed on a plane. That was why I put the wink at the end of the line. I’m sorry if that caused some confusion. I was teasing! Please don’t try to do that with an airline that provides wifi! LOL! Ahem.

The good news is this may be a reality in the future. But it’s not today — at least not in the U.S. However, look what I found. I knew about the CEO being escorted off a plane for using VOIP, but I didn’t know that Virgin Airlines is now allowing these calls. Interesting. I guess Richard Armitage wasn’t flying on Virgin. :D

edit: an update on the FAA relaxing the rules but still can’t make calls. Bummer

February 3, 2013
Categories: Geek, Interviews, Richard III, Tangents . Tags: , , , . Author: RAFrenzy . Comments: 9 Comments

The Richard III Special

The Richard III Special broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK will be on Monday, February 4th at 9pm there, which means 4pm EST, 3pm CST, 2pm MST, and 1pm PST.

There are ways for people who are not in the UK to watch. This is mostly done via something called a VPN (Virtual Private Network). You can read more about them here. I’ve been using these for a couple of years for business and especially when I travel. Occasionally I’ve had to actually access local wifi (McDonald’s unfortunately sometimes), but I try to avoid that.

For the uninitiated, this is also how people can easily fake an ip. I wasn’t going to talk about this, but some of you enjoying the details of Statcounter need to know that an IP log is not entirely reliable.

I would put up a picture, but how many times can I post Richard III or a manipulation of Richard Armitage? Okay, never mind I asked that. :D

How about this below? So it’s not Richard III related. Use your imagination. I see Richard Armitage on his way to somewhere great.

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Photo courtesy of RichardArmitageNet.com, and it’s the Picture of the Day for February 3rd.

February 3, 2013
Categories: Geek, Movies, Richard III . Tags: , , , , . Author: RAFrenzy . Comments: 5 Comments

This is Going to Be Interesting

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Check out the details of Richard Armitage on the radio talking Richard III:

Hopefully, he will shed some light on what’s going on, but somehow I doubt it. Maybe my pessimist needs some caffeine to lighten up. :D

If BBC Leicester is having him on sometime after 5pm, that means sometime after 9am Los Angeles time.

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https://twitter.com/BBCLeicester/status/298094119702650880

So stay tuned. :D

Candid photo of Richard Armitage after another radio interview in September, 2010.

February 3, 2013
Categories: Interviews, Movies, Richard III . Tags: , . Author: RAFrenzy . Comments: 16 Comments

Will Richard III be Identified on Monday?

It’s been a Richard III kind of day. A kind of week really, and now could Monday be the day we find out if it was really the King’s body under the public housing parking lot?

Philippa Langley was all over the place. Now she’s in The Sunday Times, and the teaser posed by the Times has me paying close attention (emphasis mine):

I had a hunch: The true story of the hunt for Richard III

An eerie feeling convinced Philippa Langley she had found the lost king. Tomorrow we will see if she was right

by Sian Griffiths Published: 3 February 2013

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The story of the search for the long-lost bones of one of England’s most reviled kings starts on a sweltering summer day when Philippa Langley felt a sudden chill. Langley, a screenwriter, was researching a play about Richard III — Shakespeare’s dastardly hunchback — a figure who had fascinated her since childhood. To stimulate her creative juices she paid a visit to Leicester “to walk the area where he was supposed to have been buried”.

Read more here, but not much unless you have a subscription to the Times.

I’ll cut to the case if you don’t want to bother with a Times subscription, you can watch the special on Channel 4 on Monday, 9pm GMT. I know I’m going to watch it albeit at 2pm in the afternoon.

More unvarnished thoughts about all of this. I could be so wrong, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say Ms. Langley is one ballsy lady. She is going for it. This is going to be fun to watch. No, I’m not sadistic. I honestly want to see if her chutzpah pulls off getting this movie made. I guess you always have to have chutzpah to get a movie made, but again, what the hell do I know? Nothing. LOL!

And I can’t help but continue to wonder where is Richard Armitage and why the hesitance from his agent? That just won’t leave my mind when I would like nothing better than to start gushing about this. C’mon, Richard.

Damn. I hate it when my sane self tries to ruin my fun.

How ’bout a fun picture instead?

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In honor of all of this Richard III news, I’ve finally given the King his own category. :D

Photo manipulation courtesy of @maraiad

February 2, 2013
Categories: Interviews, Movies, Richard III . Tags: , , , , , , , . Author: RAFrenzy . Comments: 12 Comments

Dear Richard

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Dear Richard:

I just read an article about your being cast as Richard III, and the look on my face is a lot like that of the King’s above — thoughtful with a little thread of perplexity. Earlier I had read CNN’s piece with quotes from Ms. Langley, and her statements about your involvement gave me some pause. I so want to jump on the bandwagon but admit to being the suspicious kind. I just feel funny about this, and especially when I consider the ‘Charlie’ debacle. Of course that didn’t involve CNN or a Scottish newspaper, but I can’t get ’round the very non-committal tone of your agent. Maybe I’m hesitant for no good reason.

Signed,
One of your crazy fans who hates being cynical, but I can’t seem to help myself.

P.S. I look forward to whatever you may be doing in future.

This is just me sharing my unvarnished thoughts about this. It will be wonderful if this is true, but I hope someone hasn’t jumped the gun by mentioning it now. Then again what do I know about promoting a possible film? Yes, you guessed it, nothing. LOL!

February 2, 2013
Categories: Interviews, Movies . Tags: , , , , , . Author: RAFrenzy . Comments: 19 Comments

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