I have been fighting with user interfaces all afternoon. Before that I was having nightmares about trying to wake up. Have some links.
1. How awful has this entire administration (not just the pandemic it failed to head off and fanned and disclaims all responsibility for, please, may it burn and consume them) been for the individual sense of time? Two years ago I saw it announced that the more than twenty-five hundred field-recordings of Yiddish folksong collected by Ruth Rubin after WWII had been digitized by YIVO and made available online and then I forgot until I ran across the Ruth Rubin Legacy Archive of Yiddish Folksongs last night. Anyway, please enjoy this amazing time sink.
2. I really love this poem and the way it weaves among its archival images: Oli Rodriguez, "Papi, Papi, Papi."
3. I recommend to anyone who like cats, but especially anyone who likes black cats, this extract from the diary of the young Emperor Uda: "Taking a moment of my free time, I wish to express my joy of the cat." I read it aloud to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch and he responded with Christopher Smart.
4. Everything about the bear-ridden failure of the libertarian Free Town Project reminds me of those conversations which observe that if you really want to thrive in the post-apocalypse, you don't need an arsenal, you need people who can do textiles and plumbing.
5. The finale of Lovecraft Country (2020) seems to have foreclosed my interest in what had until then sounded like a painful but brilliant show: "On Lovecraft Country and the way the narrative presents queerness." tl;dr the pernicious shadow of the Motion Picture Production Code is something of a Lovecraftian horror itself and I would totally have watched a spinoff about a blueswoman criss-crossing 1950's America "singing very sad blues songs about falling in love with a white devil once."
1. How awful has this entire administration (not just the pandemic it failed to head off and fanned and disclaims all responsibility for, please, may it burn and consume them) been for the individual sense of time? Two years ago I saw it announced that the more than twenty-five hundred field-recordings of Yiddish folksong collected by Ruth Rubin after WWII had been digitized by YIVO and made available online and then I forgot until I ran across the Ruth Rubin Legacy Archive of Yiddish Folksongs last night. Anyway, please enjoy this amazing time sink.
2. I really love this poem and the way it weaves among its archival images: Oli Rodriguez, "Papi, Papi, Papi."
3. I recommend to anyone who like cats, but especially anyone who likes black cats, this extract from the diary of the young Emperor Uda: "Taking a moment of my free time, I wish to express my joy of the cat." I read it aloud to
spatch and he responded with Christopher Smart.4. Everything about the bear-ridden failure of the libertarian Free Town Project reminds me of those conversations which observe that if you really want to thrive in the post-apocalypse, you don't need an arsenal, you need people who can do textiles and plumbing.
5. The finale of Lovecraft Country (2020) seems to have foreclosed my interest in what had until then sounded like a painful but brilliant show: "On Lovecraft Country and the way the narrative presents queerness." tl;dr the pernicious shadow of the Motion Picture Production Code is something of a Lovecraftian horror itself and I would totally have watched a spinoff about a blueswoman criss-crossing 1950's America "singing very sad blues songs about falling in love with a white devil once."
