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[sovay]

Today I got to have my yearly physical in the middle of this extremely unpleasant cold (I came home immediately afterward to cats and air conditioning), so here are a couple of things off the internet.

1. I am sure this guy cannot be cosplaying Strider if only because the machinery against which he's leaning looks too industrial for Tolkien's Middle-Earth, but that's what my brain told me I was looking at and so that's where we are:



2. Jason Shulman's Photographs of Films catches entire movie in single frames. Some of them work for me as freestanding images, some don't. I like how much Dr. Strangelove (1964) looks like spirit photography—the same with Blue Velvet (1986), only in color. If they return to particular sets and angles, you can see it; you get an idea of shot length. You wind up with these ghosts of the director's eye.

3. This is a very good article about the mythology of Robert E. Lee, occasioned by the removal of his monument from New Orleans.

4. This is a beautiful little short film courtesy of StoryCorps and It Gets Better.

5. Hestia when she does not feel like being petted basically pulls a Mordecai.

6. I am not sure if David Cairns is just going through his favorite character actors at The Chiseler, but after Edna May Oliver and Eric Blore he can keep it up indefinitely as far as I'm concerned. "I’m pretty sure a head like that could encircle the globe, if you laid it end to end a sufficient number of times." [edit] He appreciates Aline MacMahon! Good call. How could you not?

7. I really hope the new world's hottest chili pepper wins its flower show next week.

And because I just checked the news, I guess I'll have to watch an open hearing of the Senate intelligence committee sometime after Memorial Day, because I am certainly curious about what Comey is going to say.

Comments

[moon_custafer]

I read yesterday that King William of the Netherlands recently revealed he's been moonlighting as a pilot on KLM passenger flights for years. This doesn't really surprise me -- I'm pretty sure part of the reason the Dutch still have a monarch is that their royals tend to do their own grocery shopping and such, which makes it much harder to get enthused about deposing them.

[sovay]

I read yesterday that King William of the Netherlands recently revealed he's been moonlighting as a pilot on KLM passenger flights for years.

Well, that's wonderful.

[nineweaving]

1) It's the hood. And the chill.

2) I love the branches in The Mirror; I love that Dumbo and The Wizard of Oz end up as lost Monets.

3) "The night they drove ol' Dixie down..." There indeed goes Robert E. Lee.

4) Oh, thank you! I saw that lovely little film ages ago and lost track of it. What a gift to a child! This time I noticed that his magnificent mensch of a father only lived another two years.

7) I'm not sure what can be done with this culinarily—but it's impressive. And deceptively pretty.

Nine

[sovay]

It's the hood. And the chill.

I think you're right. And maybe the pose, although I would have to re-read the scene in question to be sure.

I love the branches in The Mirror; I love that Dumbo and The Wizard of Oz end up as lost Monets.

The branches in The Mirror might be veins across the back of an eye. Alice in Wonderland looks distressingly like a Technicolor mushroom cloud.

Oh, thank you! I saw that lovely little film ages ago and lost track of it.

You're welcome! I ran across it while clicking through The Atlantic after the previous article.

This time I noticed that his magnificent mensch of a father only lived another two years.

I saw that. I'm glad he said what was important for him to say while he had the time.

I'm not sure what can be done with this culinarily—but it's impressive. And deceptively pretty.

I really, non-ironically hope it wins! I am convinced people will find ways of diluting it to the point where it's edible—or just throw themselves at it anyway, like the vegetable equivalent of fugu.

[nenya_kanadka]

That gentleman is quite clearly playing Strider! I mean, maybe industrial something-punk Strider or there's time travel involved, but. He so is!

[sovay]

I mean, maybe industrial something-punk Strider or there's time travel involved, but. He so is!

Okay! Thank you! I'm glad it's not just me!

(I think he's a really good Strider, too.)

[rydra_wong]

Thirding the "clearly Strider", and there's no way that's not deliberate.

Robert E Lee

[lauradi7dw]

A different (but related) sort of magical thinking seemed to pertain to Lee during the early part of the Civil War, due to some of the unlikely wins at early battles under his command. This came to a horrifying result at Gettysburg, in which he and the men under him (mostly including generals who should have talked him out of it) believed that whatever he planned would work. Well, no. Pickett's charge (a Lee plan, using Pickett's troops) looked for seconds like it would work, I expect due to total confidence in Lee on the part os the CSA troops, and sheer gobsmacked amazement from the Union folks, until the woke up and the slaughter started. After that, Lee should have been booted out of the army, along with the end of the war, but I wasn't there to tell him so.

For a fictional take on Lee's centrality, including his inner motivations, see "Guns of the South," by Harry Turtledove

[asakiyume]

Love the picture--the guy would make a good Strider if the story were transposed to a setting like that.

And cool to think of the chili pepper possibly being able to be used as an anesthetic. It makes me think of my reaction to Sichuan peppers--numb mouth.

[nenya_kanadka]

I really like his Strider too! I'd cast him if I was in charge.