The Dickens you say!

I enjoy the works of Charles Dickens. Many people do. But when you get right down to it, his novels have some pretty dark themes, settings, and characters.

When you look at his collection of thieves and murderers, and spend some time in his depressing, bleak, poverty-stricken neighborhoods, what's the first thing that comes to mind?

A theme park! Of course!

Leave it to those proper, reserved, Brits to create a theme-park based on the works of their number one literary son, Charles Dickens!

You can read about it in The Guardian by clicking here.

I can't wait to have my pockets picked by a "Dodger" look-alike, or watch Little Nell die after being chased through the park!

Paint Lisa.

Because I've been too danged busy to even think about posting stuff here on the ol' blog, I will, instead, share with you yet another video from YouTube. As someone who enjoys the fine arts, I was moderately impressed with this. Moderately. Another part of me thinks it's a massive waste of time.

Watching it will waste about five minutes of your time.
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Using a computer paint program to create a copy of the Mona Lisa: