Or they will reproach you in later life for this uncalled-for lack in their education

[sovay]

It is Alan Turing's yahrzeit. I am glad the New York Times gave him the obituary in this week's Overlooked.

(I suppose it was necessary to include a photo of Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game (2014). I would have gone with Derek Jacobi in Breaking the Code (1986) or Ed Stoppard in Codebreaker (2011), but that's obvious.)

I slept minimally again, so have some more links.

1. Courtesy of kore: the lost rivers of Athens. I didn't realize Athens had lost rivers. I wonder if all cities do.

2. On the plight of small-town radio in America. If the intent of the article is to raise awareness and money for station KHIL in Willcox, Arizona, I hope it works.

3. I liked both of these poems from the recent issue of Poetry: Mary Biddinger's "Book of Disclosures" and Spencer Short's "The Gentle Art of Shabby Dressing." See also their Pride feature on the queer desire of Amy Lowell.

4. Jezebel posts clickbait of "Actors who are bad at acting." Critic Kayleigh Donaldson ripostes at length. "If you genuinely think Kristen Stewart is a bad actor, you're beyond help. Her near kaleidoscopic emotional range is invigorating and she can bring weight to even the flimsiest stories. Don't sleep on her comedic chops either." I love it.

5. Dr. Lauren MacIvor Thompson performs a similar service on the claim that nineteenth-century abortion providers did not advertise in newspapers. I hope it helps someone out with their fic research.

6. The National LGBTQ Task Force on the D.C. Dyke March.

7. Why don't I own this vest?

Comments

[selkie]

I would love to find a vest like that for a cover shoot you will eventually have to do. *frank appraisal face* I think it would look seriously choice.

[sovay]

I would love to find a vest like that for a cover shoot you will eventually have to do.

Well, if your local thrift shops provide, do let me know!

(This cover shoot still matters to me.)

[cmcmck]

One of my almae matres, the University of Kent at Canterbury, is collegiate and when they opened the fifth college a little while back, it was named Turing to go along with Keynes, Rutherford, Eliot (my own college) & Darwin. The sixth has since been named Woolf,so he's in pretty good company. :o)

[sovay]

it was named Turing to go along with Keynes, Rutherford, Eliot (my own college) & Darwin. The sixth has since been named Woolf,so he's in pretty good company.

I hadn't heard about Woolf! Nice.

[kore]

....SOMETHING IN MY EYE.

[choco_frosh]

Why don't *I* own that vest?

[sovay]

Why don't *I* own that vest?

Honestly, I don't know. (Then I could borrow it!)

Lost Rivers?

[dewline]

I seem to recall that Toronto has buried at least one river since being established.

Re: Lost Rivers?

[sovay]

I seem to recall that Toronto has buried at least one river since being established.

This is a fascinating phenomenon.

Re: Lost Rivers?

[yatima]

Sydney's is the Tank Stream. San Francisco has two that I know of: Mission and Islais Creeks.

[swan_tower]

I wonder if all cities do.

I suspect the majority of them do. Small brooks and creeks at least, if not fully navigable to boats of some kind.

[sovay]

I suspect the majority of them do. Small brooks and creeks at least, if not fully navigable to boats of some kind.

I feel you should be able to use them to navigate from one city to the other—only the lost ones, though, the shadow-sides. If you want to use the real rivers, you're bound by geography.

[gwynnega]

You should definitely own that vest. (I love Gentleman Jack!)

[sovay]

You should definitely own that vest. (I love Gentleman Jack!)

You are the second person I know who says good things! I really want to see it.

(Thank you! I . . . need a costumer.)

[dramaticirony]

Hmmm, I had been on the same page with Olivier Assayas in thinking that Kristen Stewart is the best actor of her generation, but one simple hack, reading a listicle online, changed my mind.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to read an undoubtedly life transforming bit of "content" that promises to tell me which Jonas Brother I am based on the way I cut hot dogs...

[sovay]

Hmmm, I had been on the same page with Olivier Assayas in thinking that Kristen Stewart is the best actor of her generation, but one simple hack, reading a listicle online, changed my mind.

I am, in fact, genuinely uncertain why anyone would publish that kind of list. Which was literally a list, not even a set of arguments! It could have been randomly generated. Maybe it was.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to read an undoubtedly life transforming bit of "content" that promises to tell me which Jonas Brother I am based on the way I cut hot dogs...

The new haruspicy.

[kore]

I think there are other lost rivers? (My feelings are based a lot on the Rivers of London series, LOL)

https://www.londonslostrivers.com/

[sovay]

I think there are other lost rivers?

London's were the ones I started out knowing about! (And Millers River in Boston, but that one's sort of a crusade with me.) I had not realized it was a common feature of other cities.

[thistleingrey]

That is a hell of a vest. Were it to fit me, it'd have to be really really short, though I am only average---anyway, I hope it or something like it meets you.

[sovay]

Were it to fit me, it'd have to be really really short, though I am only average---anyway, I hope it or something like it meets you.

Thank you! I hope the same, with correct measurements, for you.

[asakiyume]

That vest that you don't own reminds me of a blouse which with some adjustments could be converted to a vest--hmmmmm... food for thought!

[sovay]

That vest that you don't own reminds me of a blouse which with some adjustments could be converted to a vest--hmmmmm... food for thought!

*tries to look intrigued but not expectant*

[yatima]

Rivers of London https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum-london-docklands/whats-on/exhibitions/secret-rivers

[sovay]

Rivers of London

That looks great!

[sami]

I don't know about all cities - new ones probably not, and then there's cities like mine, which don't have many rivers at all, especially not year-round - but a number of old ones do.

[sovay]

I don't know about all cities - new ones probably not, and then there's cities like mine, which don't have many rivers at all, especially not year-round - but a number of old ones do.

Cities need water in one form or another, so I understand the likelihood of rivers; I was just not expecting so many lost ones, except that I guess it makes sense if I think about urbanization.

What does your city do, not having year-round rivers?