sovay: (Sydney Carton)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2023-01-24 02:59 pm

You don't know what you're in until you're out

Good news: watching and reading things I enjoy, cats affectionate, snow still on the ground. Bad news: dead exhausted. Have some links.

1. Courtesy of [personal profile] selkie: "The real-life refugees of 'Casablanca' make it so much more than a love story." I appreciate the shout-out to Mr. Skeffington (1944), even if I don't exactly recommend the experience.

2. Move over, Marcus Agrippa: "Negative Equivalent: Iain Sinclair on the Super Sewer."

3. For people in the northern hemisphere with telescopes, binoculars, or lower levels of light pollution: "Exotic green comet not seen since stone age returns to skies above Earth."

4. On cultural Christianity and the shapes of cultures: "culture isn't modular."

5. Matthew Cheney, starting from ChatGPT and plagiarism: "Academic Integrity?"
gwynnega: (Leslie Howard mswyrr)

[personal profile] gwynnega 2023-01-25 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
I really liked the article on Casablanca. "He would walk in the room and the ladies would straighten the seams in their stockings" is a great line.