I slept a sleep of rain-washed alleys and golden-lit bars

[sovay]

Yesterday was primarily characterized by grocery shopping while having slept forty-five minutes the previous night. Today I have a glass bottle of goat's milk in my refrigerator and my bootlace that isn't already knotted just broke. Both of these circumstances have perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century explanations and yet. Have some recently accumulated links.

1. Courtesy of umadoshi: I was glad to see this follow-up article of differing perspectives—millennial and otherwise—on burnout.

2. I like how this article on "Why We Need to Keep Searching for Lost Silent Films" answers its own question with its subtitle: "Early motion pictures give us an important window into our collective past." I'd heard of Something Good – Negro Kiss (1898). I'd never heard of Diplomatic Henry (1915).

3. Courtesy of handful_ofdust: I love this appreciation of medieval bog body fashion, but I have to say the reconstruction of Bockstensmannen looks a bit done with the whole thing.

(While we're talking about things under water and earth, I was reminded by a recent exchange with strange_complex that I've never understood why I don't see Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Perilous Gard (1974) included in more discussions of folk horror. It was published in the '70's and revolves around the fire sacrifice of a year-king to the old gods of the land. I thought of it the first time I saw The Wicker Man (1973). Maybe the Child ballad confuses people.)

4. moon_custafer has been making text posts from The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.

5. Over the weekend I was having one of those moments of wondering what I have ever done worthwhile with my life when spatch showed me this tweet. About the only time I want the capacity to interact with Twitter is to say thank you for something like that.

I will be at Arisia this weekend, because some of the people who stepped up to put out the fires are people I trust. I'll post my schedule soon.

Comments

[gwynnega]

That is an excellent tweet.

[asakiyume]

He really does look so done, doesn't he.

All of us: Hey Bockstensmannen, you've got such comfy cozy clothes--why the long face?
Him: I am about. To die. In a bog.

... Okay, fair enough.

He does have great hair.

That's an awesome tweet. Thanks for sharing--I retweeted!

[dhampyresa]

moon_custafer has been making text posts from The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.

WHAT but also that's amazing

[selkie]

wondering what I have ever done worthwhile with my life

DID YOU WANT THAT LIST ALPHABETICALLY OR BY COLOR.

*grouses* I recognize my weekend tendency to disappear into my child's schedule and its unplumbed depths of madness, but ring the bell. I am at home.

*hugs*

Arisia

[dramaticirony]

Glad you're at Arisia!

I also decided to attend, based on the actions taken by the corporate membership (Which is vastly expanded. And easy to join.) and new eboard to support the people who are stepping up.

[dhampyresa]

Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Perilous Gard (1974) included in more discussions of folk horror. It was published in the '70's and revolves around the fire sacrifice of a year-king to the old gods of the land.
Tell me more!

[sporky_rat]

Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Perilous Gard

Now I need to find that!