I am having an appalling day, starting with sleep deprivation and centrally featuring a doctor's appointment I hauled myself dizzily and nauseatedly to only to discover that one of us wrote it down on the wrong day of the calendar. (I think it was them.) Have some links.
1. Courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch: "the kaiju is also Jewish." I don't actually know John Baltisberger, but I hope Leo Rosten would have approved of this installment of Midnight Pals.
2. Courtesy ofrushthatspeaks: "Hi my name is Lesbia Clodia Pulchra Metelli," featuring a surprisingly relatable punch line.
3. Courtesy ofasakiyume: "Sci-fi publisher Clarkesworld halts pitches amid deluge of AI-generated stories." I am not feeling good about people these days and this sort of nonsense is definitely not helping.
I am trying to figure out if it is really true that I can have seen Rear Window (1954) for the first time in elementary school, following on Mathnet's "A View from the Rear Terrace" (1988). It's not unimaginable in that I was watching North by Northwest (1959) around the same time—it was my introduction to most of its cast, Cary Grant excepted—and according to my mother it would have been around the house on taped-off-the-television videocassette, like most of the older movies of my childhood. I am not usually wrong by decades about when I encountered books or movies, although sometimes I have no memory of first contact at all. What seems significant to me is the way that Rear Window still has the alien feel of something that registered on me with different colors and priorities from its adult language of cinema; I have not seen it so many times since that it has familiarized. Definitely saw Kate Monday laid up with a knee injury first, though.
1. Courtesy of
spatch: "the kaiju is also Jewish." I don't actually know John Baltisberger, but I hope Leo Rosten would have approved of this installment of Midnight Pals.2. Courtesy of
rushthatspeaks: "Hi my name is Lesbia Clodia Pulchra Metelli," featuring a surprisingly relatable punch line.3. Courtesy of
asakiyume: "Sci-fi publisher Clarkesworld halts pitches amid deluge of AI-generated stories." I am not feeling good about people these days and this sort of nonsense is definitely not helping.I am trying to figure out if it is really true that I can have seen Rear Window (1954) for the first time in elementary school, following on Mathnet's "A View from the Rear Terrace" (1988). It's not unimaginable in that I was watching North by Northwest (1959) around the same time—it was my introduction to most of its cast, Cary Grant excepted—and according to my mother it would have been around the house on taped-off-the-television videocassette, like most of the older movies of my childhood. I am not usually wrong by decades about when I encountered books or movies, although sometimes I have no memory of first contact at all. What seems significant to me is the way that Rear Window still has the alien feel of something that registered on me with different colors and priorities from its adult language of cinema; I have not seen it so many times since that it has familiarized. Definitely saw Kate Monday laid up with a knee injury first, though.
