At last she got acquainted with a rambling mad playactor

[sovay]

Apparently if permitted to sleep, my body thinks it should be allowed to do it again. I napped this afternoon and am contemplating further adventures in napping this evening. It's inconvenient in terms of a day, but on the other hand my sleep debt was old enough to vote in the last election. Have some links.

1. Courtesy of moon_custafer: Keith Moon fills in for John Peel in 1973. The musical choices are clever and more surf-inflected than I would have guessed and the interstitial sketches are deranged. Eleven out of ten, no notes. "Here it is once again, for those of you listening, in color."

2. Courtesy of selkie: clips from this weekend's semi-concert performance of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl starring Cynthia Erivo as Jesus. The effect is not unlike Nina Simone's "Pirate Jenny" (1964). Also queer af.

3. With incredible timing, the Harvard Film Archive has just announced this winter's series of Columbia 101: The Rarities, meaning that anyone in the Boston area who actually wants to hit themselves with None Shall Escape (1944) will have two chances on 35 mm including the first night of Hanukkah. I plan to be there. Several other titles of interest I have never seen, or never seen in a theater. Especially since this spring took my plans for Noir City Boston out at the knees, wish me luck.

4. Of the minimal amount of television I watched as a child, nearly all of it was brought to me by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and viewers like you. My mother has begun to refer to the incumbent of the White House with epithets as out of Homeric epic, of which "starver of children" is currently the strongest: bodies, minds, future. The earthquake swarm around Akrotiri subsided earlier this year, but everyone I know feels like Thera and counting.

5. A whole lot of people sent me the newly published Sumerian myth and it does make me very happy.

Comments

[chanter1944]

I'd like to use 'starver of children' and all its connotations/denotations as an epithet for the current officeholder, he who I tend to call the giant orange toot the better to keep things age-appropriate and, really, to avoid getting truly profane at speed. All credit to your mother. I'm also a PBS kid, all grown up (in body if not entirely in mind), and I will forever owe a significant debt to the CPB "and viewers like you" for the formative and still-visible, if one knows what to look for, effects. It's about time I put my loyalty where my mouth is and donate to my own much-beloved Wisconsin Public Television, to match my contribution to the radio side of things.

[sovay]

I'd like to use 'starver of children' and all its connotations/denotations as an epithet for the current officeholder, he who I tend to call the giant orange toot the better to keep things age-appropriate and, really, to avoid getting truly profane at speed. All credit to your mother.

I will tell her and I don't think she'll mind at all.

I'm also a PBS kid, all grown up (in body if not entirely in mind), and I will forever owe a significant debt to the CPB "and viewers like you" for the formative and still-visible, if one knows what to look for, effects.

The vast exposure to the Children's Television Workshop!

It's about time I put my loyalty where my mouth is and donate to my own much-beloved Wisconsin Public Television, to match my contribution to the radio side of things.

*hugs*

I am glad you have much-beloved public television to donate to. It does matter.