It's the glare from the reflection making patterns in your eye

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Apologies for the list format. There will be a post with actual content when I get back from running errands.

1. I have been forgetting to post a link to this for days: Profane Love: Derek Jarman and Caravaggio, a video essay by Matt Cheney.

2. I don't believe these people are angling for an Ig Nobel, but I suspect it will be some kind of miscarriage of science if they don't eventually get one: they are fundraising to study the explosive erections of ducks.

3. I am hoping to watch Obsession (1949) tonight on TCM. It's a crime film/thriller made in England by Edward Dmytryk during his Hollywood blacklist period; I've read about it, but never even seen a copy in a library. I don't believe it exists on DVD. For people who have televisions and like Robert Newton, you might want to check your local schedule.

schreibergasse, my nephew called this morning to thank me for Dragonbreath. Success.

Comments

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

tonight on TCM

they do show some interesting movies, I love it when they show the Silents.

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they do show some interesting movies, I love it when they show the Silents.

I like that they show films I can't find anywhere else—they're not infallible, but they are very often great.

Re: Duck Erections

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. Good. God.

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Oh. My. Good. God.

I thought it appropriately filed under "Jaw-Dropping Weird."

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Why did I click? That needs a photo warning!

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

I didn't watch the video. I'll never look at a mallard in the same way again!

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Why did I click? That needs a photo warning!

So sorry! I didn't think of it as NSFW unless you were a duck!

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've just found out Martin's acquired Caravaggio! I'll check out this essay after we've watched the film. Thanks for the link (and also for adding me).

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Thanks for the link (and also for adding me).

My pleasure. Caravaggio was the first Jarman I ever saw, last November with rushthatspeaks. We fell in love.

WARNING GROSS COMMENT WARNING

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

oh god duck penis why why why

*breath*

One of our mutual friends who works on the Ig Nobels told me years ago that there had been either a nominee or award recipient who had gained fame, or something, for a study on homosexual necrophilia in ducks. Apparently male ducks willingly have sex with male duck corpses--or at least, it's happened once, in front of scientists.

(Of course I came out with my favorite Tom Swiftie, " 'I'm a necrophiliac,' said Tom in dead earnest," but Our Mutual Friend was not amused.)

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One of our mutual friends who works on the Ig Nobels told me years ago that there had been either a nominee or award recipient who had gained fame, or something, for a study on homosexual necrophilia in ducks.

Biology in 2003, I believe. Sadly, not the year I attended the ceremony.

(Of course I came out with my favorite Tom Swiftie, " 'I'm a necrophiliac,' said Tom in dead earnest," but Our Mutual Friend was not amused.)

*snerk*

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

2. I don't believe these people are angling for an Ig Nobel, but I suspect it will be some kind of miscarriage of science if they don't eventually get one:

I agree completely.

3.

I hope you've indeed got to see it, or will if it's not yet that time. I hope it's everything you'd wish it to be.

I'm delighted that your nephew liked Dragonbreath!

I wish my cousins-once-removed who are the children of cousins I like (as opposed to the third grade football star of YuppieSuburb, AL and his sisters, who probably wouldn't appreciate Ursula Vernon, or at least my cousin their mother wouldn't) were old enough for Dragonbreath and Nurk, so I'd have an excuse to order the books for them and be able to read them myself before wrapping them up and sending them onwards.

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wish my cousins-once-removed who are the children of cousins I like (as opposed to the third grade football star of YuppieSuburb, AL and his sisters, who probably wouldn't appreciate Ursula Vernon, or at least my cousin their mother wouldn't) were old enough for Dragonbreath and Nurk, so I'd have an excuse to order the books for them and be able to read them myself before wrapping them up and sending them onwards.

You could buy them as a future investment.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

You could buy them as a future investment.

Good point!

I might have to think on this. Of course, the problem is that if books are about for very long I get attached to them. Still, they might be worth adding to my mother's collection of children's books.