Always thought you would miss me too much to rush
For various reasons, today is mostly a disparate collection of links. I have perhaps a hallucination of watching and writing about a movie tonight. Maybe just work.
1. David Walsh situates the man in the White House in a context of classic American anti-Semitism à la Henry Ford. David Schraub observes that once again right-wing anti-Semitism is greeted by non-Jews with a shrug, not a media blitz, and would like that to change. I have nothing personally eloquent to say on the subject at this time; it stresses and scares me. It's not new behavior on anyone's part. That does not lessen its damage. Kind of the other way round, really.
2. Both of these poems stick with me: Vincent Toro's "All the Mexicos" and Susan Rich's "The Photograph Suggests a Hidden Life." The sidebar of the latter suggested Lory Bedikian's "The Mechanic," which I am also still thinking about.
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rydra_wong: "They eradicated smallpox, Nigel."
4. I would like to see this exhibit of Edvard Munch, except as usual I don't have a teleporter. I was surprised by how much I love the woodcut of Toward the Forest I (1897) featured in this article. It doesn't look like one of the romantic variants to me.
5. I really appreciate that BPAL has finally gone the neural network route in designing new perfumes, but the illustration for Scent Boom made me laugh out loud.
I am off to a doctor's appointment.
1. David Walsh situates the man in the White House in a context of classic American anti-Semitism à la Henry Ford. David Schraub observes that once again right-wing anti-Semitism is greeted by non-Jews with a shrug, not a media blitz, and would like that to change. I have nothing personally eloquent to say on the subject at this time; it stresses and scares me. It's not new behavior on anyone's part. That does not lessen its damage. Kind of the other way round, really.
2. Both of these poems stick with me: Vincent Toro's "All the Mexicos" and Susan Rich's "The Photograph Suggests a Hidden Life." The sidebar of the latter suggested Lory Bedikian's "The Mechanic," which I am also still thinking about.
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rydra_wong: "They eradicated smallpox, Nigel."4. I would like to see this exhibit of Edvard Munch, except as usual I don't have a teleporter. I was surprised by how much I love the woodcut of Toward the Forest I (1897) featured in this article. It doesn't look like one of the romantic variants to me.
5. I really appreciate that BPAL has finally gone the neural network route in designing new perfumes, but the illustration for Scent Boom made me laugh out loud.
I am off to a doctor's appointment.
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3. Farage needs and deserves to have that thrown in his face everywhere. Because he doesn't want to admit the truth of it.
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This one scares me not just because it's close to home, but because it's such an old and well-rooted hatred that even people who wouldn't otherwise trust him with the time of day will nod their heads when he speaks about Jews because it's an obvious truth to them, too, like sunrise or gravity: whether you locate the reason in the modern state of Israel or just subscribe to the free-floating conspiracy theories of the last two thousand years, you just can't trust the Jews.
3. Farage needs and deserves to have that thrown in his face everywhere. Because he doesn't want to admit the truth of it.
I liked the linked suggestion of making the phrase, as it were, viral.
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It seems that my one time political party is now out to get me for both bloodlines as well as being full of transphobic elements..... :o(
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That is awful. And on International Romani Day, too. I am sorry.
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I'd guess this guy.
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I love the conceit and it's just beautifully done.
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Magnificent!
Nine
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I would cheerfully watch that become the new "They're lesbians, Harold."
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The anxiety--I know it. Along with exhaustion and terror. I need my magic powers to be sure I can keep you safe. You, and also everyone.
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You're welcome. I read them both a couple of days ago and keep coming back to thinking about them.
The anxiety--I know it. Along with exhaustion and terror. I need my magic powers to be sure I can keep you safe. You, and also everyone.
I worry all the time about keeping people safe. I worry I won't be able to. It is probably the thing I am most afraid of right now.