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spatch and I attended a double feature of Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc (1972) and Paper Moon (1973), both starring Ryan O'Neal but more importantly both edited by Verna Fields: they were screened as part of the Brattle's series on female editors. I had seen What's Up, Doc once in high school, after which I went around quoting pieces of it for twenty-odd years ("There's not much to see, actually; we're inside a Chinese dragon"); this time I could appreciate Barbra Streisand, since I was no longer immediately bitter about Hello, Dolly! (1969), and notice that Kenneth Mars was doing his best Hans Conried as a snooty semi-Croatian musicologist, flouncing hair-toss and all. Rob had never seen it. I'd never seen Paper Moon, like a black-and-white forerunner of O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), not a pastiche of the pre-Code movies it resembles. It was a Madeline Kahn double feature, too. After a relatively rotten day, we had a good evening.
Have a bunch of links.
1. Courtesy ofbrigdh: maps of the Roman Empire divided by stereotype. I am particularly fond of the progression from "Drunks" to "Huge, terrifying, really angry drunks" and the one with the Senate.
2. Courtesy ofnewredshoes: the backfire of "vice signaling," or why the New York Times keeps looking so pro-Nazi.
3. I've seen this article's argument made before and perhaps more rigorously, but it is always worth noting the ways in which the conspiracy theory aspects of anti-Semitism slide it under many people's recognition of racism: "Anti-Semitism differs from most forms of racism in that it purports to 'punch up' against a secret society of oppressors, which has the side effect of making it easy to disguise as a politics of emancipation. If Jews have power, then punching up at Jews is a form of speaking truth to power." See also Eric Ward's invaluable and quite rigorous "Skin in the Game: How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism."
4. Maria Dahvana Headley revisits The Crucible in light of Arthur Miller's personal life and comes to some distressing, though fascinating conclusions: "Him Too? How Arthur Miller Smeared Marilyn Monroe and Invented the Myth of the Male Witch Hunt." The title is clickbaity, but the article itself is not.
5. I love this story by Yoon Ha Lee very much: "The Starship and the Temple Cat." It has the best ghost cat.
To see out January,
spatch and I attended a double feature of Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc (1972) and Paper Moon (1973), both starring Ryan O'Neal but more importantly both edited by Verna Fields: they were screened as part of the Brattle's series on female editors. I had seen What's Up, Doc once in high school, after which I went around quoting pieces of it for twenty-odd years ("There's not much to see, actually; we're inside a Chinese dragon"); this time I could appreciate Barbra Streisand, since I was no longer immediately bitter about Hello, Dolly! (1969), and notice that Kenneth Mars was doing his best Hans Conried as a snooty semi-Croatian musicologist, flouncing hair-toss and all. Rob had never seen it. I'd never seen Paper Moon, like a black-and-white forerunner of O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), not a pastiche of the pre-Code movies it resembles. It was a Madeline Kahn double feature, too. After a relatively rotten day, we had a good evening.Have a bunch of links.
1. Courtesy of
brigdh: maps of the Roman Empire divided by stereotype. I am particularly fond of the progression from "Drunks" to "Huge, terrifying, really angry drunks" and the one with the Senate.2. Courtesy of
newredshoes: the backfire of "vice signaling," or why the New York Times keeps looking so pro-Nazi.3. I've seen this article's argument made before and perhaps more rigorously, but it is always worth noting the ways in which the conspiracy theory aspects of anti-Semitism slide it under many people's recognition of racism: "Anti-Semitism differs from most forms of racism in that it purports to 'punch up' against a secret society of oppressors, which has the side effect of making it easy to disguise as a politics of emancipation. If Jews have power, then punching up at Jews is a form of speaking truth to power." See also Eric Ward's invaluable and quite rigorous "Skin in the Game: How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism."
4. Maria Dahvana Headley revisits The Crucible in light of Arthur Miller's personal life and comes to some distressing, though fascinating conclusions: "Him Too? How Arthur Miller Smeared Marilyn Monroe and Invented the Myth of the Male Witch Hunt." The title is clickbaity, but the article itself is not.
5. I love this story by Yoon Ha Lee very much: "The Starship and the Temple Cat." It has the best ghost cat.
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"Crowded urban hell. Boring small towns. Empty wasteland."
And that story by Yoon Ha Lee is on my read-today list
The ending reliably makes my throat catch. Autolycus joined me for the re-read, which I thought was kind of him.
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Re: Yoon Ha Lee's story (now that I've read it): It was a very affecting. I like that the language of the dead is also the language of bells.
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Yes. It makes sense. Echoes and reverberations, a ringing long after the touch is gone.