It's a belligerent style of play and you're resisting the change
We have new internet! It's not entirely clear that we actually needed new internet, but RCN certainly wasn't going to let us continue to use our previous internet, so the tech came and now we have a new router and all the same names on our networks because seriously. Autolycus bravely stayed on the couch through two rounds of doorbell while Hestia defended the bedroom door against all comers. I may finally have gotten over this nosebleed in time to leave the house.
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spatch has written about Tuesday's Burns Supper birthday; I will add that the version I sang of "John Barleycorn" was George Mackay Brown's and that Rob left out the part where he was illustrated by buttresses in the persons of Lynn Feingold and Lynn Noel. We came home and watched Ken Russell's The Boy Friend (1971), a gloriously meta-theatrical love letter to shabby British theater and glamorous Hollywood musicals, with Twiggy, Max Adrian, Murray Melvin, and Vladek Sheybal.
Yesterday I did very little except work, which was boring but undoubtedly better for me than running around. Today I run around. Have some links.
1. The entire story of what Alan Turing's OBE and other memorabilia were doing in Colorado is nuts, but I'm glad they have been recovered; I hope Sherborne gets them back.
2. I am also in favor of not losing Prospect Cottage. To help crowdfund the preservation of Derek Jarman's garden, because apparently this is the world we live in, go here.
3. Viathanate: Kali Wallace, "your heart is a moving target." "I think a lot about what is being lost in those gulfs. I wonder what people would be writing if they weren't being reminded every single day that books live or die by what elements will have people squealing with joy on social media. I wonder what happens to a body of literature if the only people who can take time to create daring and unusual things are those people who already have the support and privilege to make such a choice possible. I wonder what it does to individuals and communities when writers internalize the idea that what they write might matter for a month or two, or maybe a year or two if it's extraordinarily lucky, but after that they have to find a way to matter all over again. What they aren't saying, because they don’t think anybody will hear it."
4. Viahandful_ofdust: things Sherlock Holmes has canonically done. I only wish it came with the stories identified, since the one about the jellyfish is right there in the title, but I can't at all remember where the diagram of breadcrumbs goes.
5. I am actually very impressed by the science of the Vesuvius-vitrified brain.
spatch has written about Tuesday's Burns Supper birthday; I will add that the version I sang of "John Barleycorn" was George Mackay Brown's and that Rob left out the part where he was illustrated by buttresses in the persons of Lynn Feingold and Lynn Noel. We came home and watched Ken Russell's The Boy Friend (1971), a gloriously meta-theatrical love letter to shabby British theater and glamorous Hollywood musicals, with Twiggy, Max Adrian, Murray Melvin, and Vladek Sheybal.Yesterday I did very little except work, which was boring but undoubtedly better for me than running around. Today I run around. Have some links.
1. The entire story of what Alan Turing's OBE and other memorabilia were doing in Colorado is nuts, but I'm glad they have been recovered; I hope Sherborne gets them back.
2. I am also in favor of not losing Prospect Cottage. To help crowdfund the preservation of Derek Jarman's garden, because apparently this is the world we live in, go here.
3. Via
thanate: Kali Wallace, "your heart is a moving target." "I think a lot about what is being lost in those gulfs. I wonder what people would be writing if they weren't being reminded every single day that books live or die by what elements will have people squealing with joy on social media. I wonder what happens to a body of literature if the only people who can take time to create daring and unusual things are those people who already have the support and privilege to make such a choice possible. I wonder what it does to individuals and communities when writers internalize the idea that what they write might matter for a month or two, or maybe a year or two if it's extraordinarily lucky, but after that they have to find a way to matter all over again. What they aren't saying, because they don’t think anybody will hear it."4. Via
handful_ofdust: things Sherlock Holmes has canonically done. I only wish it came with the stories identified, since the one about the jellyfish is right there in the title, but I can't at all remember where the diagram of breadcrumbs goes.5. I am actually very impressed by the science of the Vesuvius-vitrified brain.
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Thank you! It is very like our old internet, but it is internet and we cannot afford to be without it! (I had not seen until this evening the proposal by Sanders to treat internet access as a public utility, like heat or water; I'd be good with it.)
2. I heard about this last night and thought of you. Fingers crossed...
I mean, I can believe that the nation hasn't stepped in to save it because the nation appears to be suffering from the internationally popular pandemic of ass clowns, but I'm still frustrated it's necessary!
5. Grief. Have you heard about the 3-D printed vocal tract of the 3,000-year-old Egyptian priest?
No! What?
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Nine
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"But then, as Howard pointed out, the sound is more specifically that of Nesyamun lying in his coffin after mummification."
THIS WILL END WELL.
"Schofield added the approach could also be applied to other preserved human remains – such as the iron age bog bodies found in Denmark and beyond."
THIS WILL DEFINITELY END WELL.
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Here you go:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/23/talk-like-an-egyptian-mummys-voice-heard-3000-years-after-death
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*THIS WILL DEFINITELY END WELL*
Story prompt, perhaps?
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-society-fishskin/chinas-mermaid-descendants-weave-final-garments-from-skin-of-fish-idUSKBN1ZK0AM?fbclid=IwAR2iUq-jr0siwXxLpkzn8tTO5TyujCr3PO7mc7fagx-FUyIekM_VRdtAobY
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I just saw that! I didn't know about the Hezhen, and I didn't know about the fish-skin clothing. That culture should not be lost. It's so easy to break links.