I am taking a brief break from book-related announcements on this glaringly sunny afternoon, although with the e-book in progress I will be back to shouting soon enough. I meant to post some of these links last week. Others are new. There are kind of a lot of them.
1. Courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
brigdh: queequeg and ishmael! sauntering! in the streets of nantucket!
2. The casting of Ruby Rose as Kate Kane has brought the recurring question of casting Jewish characters with non-Jewish actors back into the spotlight. Increasingly, except in cases where the person has actually converted to Christianity or some other mutually exclusive religion, I don't know what to do with the phrase "of Jewish descent." Also I guess I should read DC Comics Bombshells.
3. Just about everyone is linking "All Star" in Aramaic, which is fair, beause it's a thing of beauty. Plus it provides me with an excuse to linkisis' glorious Slings & Arrows vid, "The Most Lamentable Comedy of Richard Smith-Jones."
4. Courtesy ofdavidgillon: new work from ten poets with disabilities.
5. Courtesy ofrydra_wong: ghosts of the heat wave, with photos.
6. Courtesy ofmoon_custafer: Peter and Harriet observing the ghosts at Bredon Hall.
7. As I catch up on months of magazines I haven't been reading, these two poems chime really well: Laura Read's "Phallogocentric" and Britanny Hause's "A Cocky Poem."
8. Courtesy ofhandful_ofdust: fantastic photocollage Hexslingers. With Liev Schreiber and everything.
9. Courtesy ofselkie: raising the clameur in St Peter Port.
10. Last week I feel I reached some kind of developmental milestone: I read four and a half poems out of A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Young (1924) to my niece who is just a little more than four and a half herself. She was charmed by "Market Square," "Disobedience," "The Four Friends," "The King's Breakfast," and then halfway through "Lines and Squares" decided she would rather watch an internet program about thylacines than hear about imaginary bears, but I was glad to read any of them to her; they are poems my mother and grandmother read to me. The book was her unbirthday present. She especially seemed to enjoy the use of props—a pair of pennies and a little stuffed animal rabbit—during "Market Square." I will be taking her to the MFA's "Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic" in September.
I watched two disappointing movies last night and I'm trying to decide if I should put the braintime into writing about them or just try to watch something tonight that doesn't disappoint me. [edit] I just watched Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) instead. I feel this was a fine life decision.
1. Courtesy of
brigdh: queequeg and ishmael! sauntering! in the streets of nantucket!2. The casting of Ruby Rose as Kate Kane has brought the recurring question of casting Jewish characters with non-Jewish actors back into the spotlight. Increasingly, except in cases where the person has actually converted to Christianity or some other mutually exclusive religion, I don't know what to do with the phrase "of Jewish descent." Also I guess I should read DC Comics Bombshells.
3. Just about everyone is linking "All Star" in Aramaic, which is fair, beause it's a thing of beauty. Plus it provides me with an excuse to link
isis' glorious Slings & Arrows vid, "The Most Lamentable Comedy of Richard Smith-Jones."4. Courtesy of
davidgillon: new work from ten poets with disabilities.5. Courtesy of
rydra_wong: ghosts of the heat wave, with photos.6. Courtesy of
moon_custafer: Peter and Harriet observing the ghosts at Bredon Hall.7. As I catch up on months of magazines I haven't been reading, these two poems chime really well: Laura Read's "Phallogocentric" and Britanny Hause's "A Cocky Poem."
8. Courtesy of
handful_ofdust: fantastic photocollage Hexslingers. With Liev Schreiber and everything.9. Courtesy of
selkie: raising the clameur in St Peter Port. 10. Last week I feel I reached some kind of developmental milestone: I read four and a half poems out of A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Young (1924) to my niece who is just a little more than four and a half herself. She was charmed by "Market Square," "Disobedience," "The Four Friends," "The King's Breakfast," and then halfway through "Lines and Squares" decided she would rather watch an internet program about thylacines than hear about imaginary bears, but I was glad to read any of them to her; they are poems my mother and grandmother read to me. The book was her unbirthday present. She especially seemed to enjoy the use of props—a pair of pennies and a little stuffed animal rabbit—during "Market Square." I will be taking her to the MFA's "Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic" in September.
I watched two disappointing movies last night and I'm trying to decide if I should put the braintime into writing about them or just try to watch something tonight that doesn't disappoint me. [edit] I just watched Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) instead. I feel this was a fine life decision.
