Traditionally my brother and his family spend Christmas Day with his in-laws, so they come to us for Boxing Day. The living room floor is strewn with torn paper: Charlotte was allowed to unwrap all of the presents except the fragile ones. She has a tambourine now, so I have earplugs in. She is three years old and she just snatched her new toy propeller plane (made of recycled plastic in three colors, sturdy and suitable for taking in the bath) back from my brother who was flying it for her: "No, Daddy, only girls can!"
2016-12-26
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derspatchel and I decide to leave the kitchen table to watch a movie, Autolycus leaps onto my lap and falls asleep within five seconds. He is out cold, a warm trusting weight, flickering his ears and paws a little in his dreams. Ladies and gentlemen, the cat.
Rob: "M'SIEU LE BUTT! THE BUTT ABIDES! IN HIS LAP IN SOMERVILLE, SWEET AUTOLYCUS LIES DREAMING. SNUFFLE SNUFFLE SNORT!"
(We get punchy when the cat gets cute.)
1. Courtesy ofgaudior: I do not know the origins of the "dick: out" meme, but I approve mightily of this ancient Roman variation.
2. I've been seeing this photo going around on social media: a menorah against the swastika, 1931. I have also been seeing this article: "A People's History of the Third Reich." I don't think it misses the point to consider the ways in which Trump and his supporters behave like the kind of authoritarians we have seen before, but I agree that the important question is then: so what are you going to do about it?
3. Since it is still the time of year at which people have conversations about "Baby, It's Cold Outside": I felt a lot less weird about the song knowing that Frank Loesser wrote it to be performed by himself and his wife Lynn Garland as a party-closer, signaling to their guests that it was time to gather their coats and go home. Then I felt weird again learning that Garland was furious with Loesser for selling the song to MGM, because it was their duet and their in-joke and the context was everything. Indeed.
4. The Brattle Theatre has just announced an upcoming series on the occult in cinema. Yes, please, awesome. Of the movies I have never seen/in a theater, I am definitely planning on Night of the Demon (1957), The Devil Rides Out (1968), and The Holy Mountain (1973), but I would love to see The Witch: A New-England Folktale (2015) again and I think it would be really instructive to rewatch The Devils (1971) and A Field in England (2013) in close proximity.handful_ofdust, you want to visit Boston for a weekend?
5. I think Tablet just built a golem: "We Built a Bot That Trolls Twitter's Worst Anti-Semitic Trolls."
Last night YouTube recommended me a video entitled "Intelligent People Have Fewer Friends, Here's Why . . ." I didn't watch it. I assume the answer is "comma splices."
derspatchel and I decide to leave the kitchen table to watch a movie, Autolycus leaps onto my lap and falls asleep within five seconds. He is out cold, a warm trusting weight, flickering his ears and paws a little in his dreams. Ladies and gentlemen, the cat.Rob: "M'SIEU LE BUTT! THE BUTT ABIDES! IN HIS LAP IN SOMERVILLE, SWEET AUTOLYCUS LIES DREAMING. SNUFFLE SNUFFLE SNORT!"
(We get punchy when the cat gets cute.)
1. Courtesy of
gaudior: I do not know the origins of the "dick: out" meme, but I approve mightily of this ancient Roman variation.2. I've been seeing this photo going around on social media: a menorah against the swastika, 1931. I have also been seeing this article: "A People's History of the Third Reich." I don't think it misses the point to consider the ways in which Trump and his supporters behave like the kind of authoritarians we have seen before, but I agree that the important question is then: so what are you going to do about it?
3. Since it is still the time of year at which people have conversations about "Baby, It's Cold Outside": I felt a lot less weird about the song knowing that Frank Loesser wrote it to be performed by himself and his wife Lynn Garland as a party-closer, signaling to their guests that it was time to gather their coats and go home. Then I felt weird again learning that Garland was furious with Loesser for selling the song to MGM, because it was their duet and their in-joke and the context was everything. Indeed.
4. The Brattle Theatre has just announced an upcoming series on the occult in cinema. Yes, please, awesome. Of the movies I have never seen/in a theater, I am definitely planning on Night of the Demon (1957), The Devil Rides Out (1968), and The Holy Mountain (1973), but I would love to see The Witch: A New-England Folktale (2015) again and I think it would be really instructive to rewatch The Devils (1971) and A Field in England (2013) in close proximity.
handful_ofdust, you want to visit Boston for a weekend?5. I think Tablet just built a golem: "We Built a Bot That Trolls Twitter's Worst Anti-Semitic Trolls."
Last night YouTube recommended me a video entitled "Intelligent People Have Fewer Friends, Here's Why . . ." I didn't watch it. I assume the answer is "comma splices."
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