My muse has gone away for the summer today

[sovay]

Today was mostly, unfortunately, awful, but I spent some of the early afternoon on the back deck and enjoyed the turning leaves of the ivy in the yard and the fences beyond our treeline, plus the cross-hatched angles of a neighbor's third-floor deck against the dissolving blue of the autumn sky.





Have some links.

1. Until a day ago, I had no idea that public education in Massachusetts was first established under the Old Deluder Satan Law of 1647. On the one hand, the general notion of the Devil working through ignorance and misinformation remains distressingly relevant. On the other, I hate to break it to the Massachusetts General Court, but Koine Greek existed for purposes other than confounding English Puritans.

2. Until this morning, I had no idea about the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876, period. I was not expecting the vultures. Or, for that matter, the jelly beans.

3. I enjoyed Christina Lane's "Rebecca at Eighty: The Women Behind the Hitchcock Classic," but I am really pleased to see she has an entire book out about Joan Harrison.

4. Courtesy of a friend who is not on Dreamwidth: Leonard Pierce, "The Working-Class Cinematic Legacy of Film Noir." As I said elsenet, film noir is only the most class-conscious of American cinema if you ignore pre-Code Hollywood, but post-Code? Absolutely. Points deducted for over-emphasizing as usual the frequency of the femme fatale (and WTF awarded for claiming that "noir's terror of these women" reveals "a sublimated fear of the working class" as opposed to, jeepers, could misogyny have played a part?), but I am a sucker for an article that appreciates Act of Violence (1948).

5. Courtesy of moon_custafer: Anubis-masked priest from the Temple of Isis at Pompeii.

Comments

Ky meat shower

[lauradi7dw]

Start at 7:58 (or watch the whole thing, but the meat shower starts then)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5Xb8R0A9hI

[spatch]

I very much like sun through trees, and I am glad you've chronicled the one outside turning red.

[skygiants]

Have you seen the Rebecca Michell & Webb sketch? It delights me every time.

[selkie]

I feel personally culpable for your not knowing about the meat shower! I vote "vulture hwark," myself, but I am always open to "tornado mycoprotein."

You have lots of people who will hold the autumn sky up off the ocean for you if you can't for a while. Hugs.

[gwynnega]

I'm so glad there's a book out about Joan Harrison.

If there isn't a band called the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876, there really should be.

[dramaticirony]

Okay, The Old Deluder Satan Law is now my *favorite* Massachusetts historical detail, surpassing John Adams very unpolitic description of the students he taught in Worcester: "a large number of little runtlings, just capable of lisping A.B.C. and troubling the Master.”

[rachelmanija]

I knew about the Meat Shower and the vulture vomit theory, but not about the jellybeans.

I personally would not eat random chunks of meat that fell out of the sky.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, I'm sorry. May today be less awful. ♥

But the photos are lovely!

and WTF awarded for claiming that "noir's terror of these women" reveals "a sublimated fear of the working class" as opposed to, jeepers, could misogyny have played a part?</I. lol, wow.

[poliphilo]

I thought I knew my Roman frescoes but that Anubis priest was completely new to me.

Re: Ky meat shower

[sovay]

Start at 7:58 (or watch the whole thing, but the meat shower starts then)

I appreciate the additional information.

[sovay]

I very much like sun through trees, and I am glad you've chronicled the one outside turning red.

Thank you. There just hasn't been enough autumn this autumn.

[sovay]

Have you seen the Rebecca Michell & Webb sketch? It delights me every time.

I have not! Link?

[sovay]

I feel personally culpable for your not knowing about the meat shower! I vote "vulture hwark," myself, but I am always open to "tornado mycoprotein."

I know which one I would feel more comfortable about taste-testing in the name of science!

You have lots of people who will hold the autumn sky up off the ocean for you if you can't for a while. Hugs.

*hugs*

[sovay]

I'm so glad there's a book out about Joan Harrison.

I miss libraries! I would be looking for a copy pronto.

If there isn't a band called the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876, there really should be.

I'd listen to them.

[sovay]

Okay, The Old Deluder Satan Law is now my *favorite* Massachusetts historical detail

Hooray!

surpassing John Adams very unpolitic description of the students he taught in Worcester: "a large number of little runtlings, just capable of lisping A.B.C. and troubling the Master.”

One of nature's educators, I see.

[sovay]

I knew about the Meat Shower and the vulture vomit theory, but not about the jellybeans.

If one were going to attempt to reconstruct the flavor of hundred-and-thirty-year-old meat in a contemporary, artificial form, jelly beans would definitely not have been the first thing that occurred to me.

I personally would not eat random chunks of meat that fell out of the sky.

It reminded me of the Tumblr post about vintage MREs. "im watching a dude eat meat from a 1902 british military ration right now. my dude is deadass out here calmly trying to become the last casualty of the fucking second boer war."

[sovay]

Aw, I'm sorry. May today be less awful.

Thank you. Today has been sort of neutral so far, at least.

But the photos are lovely!

Thank you! Contrary to insomnia, I do consider sunlight my friend!

lol, wow.

(Seriously.)

[sovay]

I thought I knew my Roman frescoes but that Anubis priest was completely new to me.

I really love him.

[ashlyme]

*I had no idea about the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876*

Neither had I! This is what happens when you let Charles Fort open a butcher's shop. I am never tasting those jelly beans, because I like the original sweets and want to stay fond of them.

*and WTF awarded for claiming that "noir's terror of these women" reveals "a sublimated fear of the working class" as opposed to, jeepers, could misogyny have played a part?*

Huh? I call BS on their statement.

ETA: That ivy. Oh my God. <3

[sovay]

This is what happens when you let Charles Fort open a butcher's shop.

Hee!

I am never tasting those jelly beans, because I like the original sweets and want to stay fond of them.

As an investigative method, it fascinates me, but culinarily:



ETA: That ivy. Oh my God.

*hugs*

The back yard belongs to the first-floor people, in that they are the only ones with the rights in the lease to garden it or throw parties (which I truly, truly wish they would not do, but they do), but I can enjoy the view and I try to remind myself to.

[ashlyme]

Where do I sign up for the octopus riding course?

*Hugs*

I wouldn't throw parties in that yard. It's too peaceful for that. I'd take a partner or good friend out there with a bottle of wine and talk quietly and fondly into the night.

[skygiants]

Here it is! I love it passionately and probably not just because of the pleasing solipsism of name recognition. If you're gonna make a movie called 'Rebecca,' you gotta have a dame called 'Rebecca' in it!

[brigdh]

the cross-hatched angles of a neighbor's third-floor deck against the dissolving blue of the autumn sky.

Gorgeous.

I happened to learn about the Kentucky Meat Shower myself just a week or two ago, but I'd missed out on the jelly beans. So... thank you?

[sovay]

Gorgeous.

Thank you!

I happened to learn about the Kentucky Meat Shower myself just a week or two ago, but I'd missed out on the jelly beans. So... thank you?

You're welcome? I was intrigued and horrified.