Mud of some sort or another

Someone mentioned mud, and I immediately sang in my mind “mud, mud, glorious mud” – from ‘Hippopotamus’ by Flanders & Swann.

Mud is something they'd love to find on Mars — see HiRISE images of the Phoenix landing site at www.planetary.org/ blog/ article/ 00001472

Mud also plays a small, but vital role in the film The Ballad of Cable Hogue

And for a picture that evokes quite different emotions, GW Bush officiating at an Air Force Academy graduation ceremony

Analysing Raising Arizona

The House Next Door (mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com)

H.I. Pulls the Pin (10th October, 2007)
Raising Arizona's universe exists somewhere between a Sam Shepard play and Chuck Jones' 'Dripalong Daffy.' H.I (Nicolas Cage) and his barren, ex-cop wife, Ed (Holly Hunter), participate in wild car and foot chases, throw roundhouse punches that would have knocked John Wayne's eyeballs out, and speak in courtly sentences that mix pop psychology, cornpone aphorisms and odd, poetic rhythms. ('Biology and the prejudices of others conspired to keep us childless.')

Zeppelin versus Pterodactyls, and writings

Some fun stuff put together on Utoob — Zeppelin versus Pterodactyls
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2PkY3zSuw4

Inspired by this, apparently
ratmmjess.livejournal.com/170419.html
(Some casting ideas are: "Christopher Walken as the Zeppelin Luftkapitan, Alan Ford as the pissed-off British pilot sent to stop him, Nathan Fillon as the American mechanic for the British ... Tilda Swinton as Walken's frightening Lieutenant, Angelina Jolie as the, hmm, Russian spy/assassin sent to take care of Walken. And Dakota Fanning as the first victim Walken throws out of the zeppelin's windows so that the pterodactyls can feed.
The sequel, of course, would be Raptors on a Zeppelin, starring Sam Jackson as the brilliant native of the Lost Continent who seizes the zep' from the Nazis by infesting it with his trained raptors ...")

Which is also discussed here: s8.invisionfree.com/ MHVF/ index.php?showtopic=1073

I found Orwell's works here. Turns out there's considerably more, up & down the scale
Edgar Rice Burroughs: whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/ words/ authors/ B/ BurroughsEdgarRice/ index.html
Miguel de Cervantes: whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/ words/ authors/ C/ CervantesMiguelde/ index.html
William Shakespeare: whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/ words/ authors/ S/ ShakespeareWilliam/ index.html

Defending Bulwer-Lytton nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com/ 2007/ 07/ defense-of-bulwer-lytton.html