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P&PC Editor's Note: Check out the sweet poem intertitles at 16:26, 27:18, and 31:08 (quotations from Poe's poems " To One In Paradise " and " Annabel Lee ").

Editor's Note: Usually the P&PC office cats show little interest in our regular postings and office politics. Sure, they appreciated our analysis of the poetry printed on the packaging for Purina's Friskies Crispies Cheese Flavor Puffs , but—not unpredictably—they were more interested in the puffs themselves. Our posting about the poetry printed on the reverse side of an old " Rat On Toast—For Dinner " stereoview card met with relative indifference, and while we thought our " Stray Cat Ethics of Poetry Criticism " was pretty damn charming, they (Athens and Bella, pictured here) felt it was pretty much common sense. Thus, when Athens and Bella came to us with paws outspread suggesting that Francesco Marciuliano's new collection I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems By Cats would be excellent material for a posting, we had no choice but to oblige. So we turned to longtime P&PC friend and correspondent Catherine (Cat) Keyser, hoping that she an...

We here at P&PC haven't yet seen the Showtime series Penny Dreadful —"a psychologically dark adult drama filled with intense mystery and suspense"—but the little "Sound Bite" pictured here and appearing in the June 12 issue of Entertainment Weekly has certainly caught our interest. "All sad people like poetry. Happy people like songs," says Vanessa, an "enigmatic, composed, driven woman" who (according to Wiki) apparently "fears little, until the witches' power begins to pick at her strength." Add it to our queue—right after Grimm , True Blood , Crossing Lines , Broadchurch , Witnesses ( Les témoins ), and Justified ? You bet.