Blake’s 1

I can’t claim to have known actor Michael Keating, who died this week, but I did interview him once and we did have at least one phone chat. And I want to tell you about that chat. Not because of what was said, I imagine now that it was just about arranging the time for the in-person interview, but because of precisely when it happened. Please picture me taking notes as I watched an episode of Blake’s 7. Specifically, I’m sitting at the end of our couch, my MacBook is on the arm to my side, my iPhone is on the seat next to me. Maybe I should explain that I thought I wasn’t paying a lot of attention, because this was for work and the episode was not exactly one of the good ones. I was watching it for completeness, possibly to check some fact, I can’t remember, but this was a job and I would have sworn that my mind kept wandering. Except there came this moment when Vila, played by Keating, has to exit the scene. From my perspective on my couch, he walks out of shot to the right of my…