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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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And just like the golem I wanted in November, it is explicitly designed not just to weed out racist trolls impersonating Jews, but racist trolls pretending to be Black, Latinx, Muslim: good! May it keep it up and be effective.