I read another story on the internet
I am taking a brief break from book-related announcements on this glaringly sunny afternoon, although with the e-book in progress I will be back to shouting soon enough. I meant to post some of these links last week. Others are new. There are kind of a lot of them.
1. Courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
brigdh: queequeg and ishmael! sauntering! in the streets of nantucket!
2. The casting of Ruby Rose as Kate Kane has brought the recurring question of casting Jewish characters with non-Jewish actors back into the spotlight. Increasingly, except in cases where the person has actually converted to Christianity or some other mutually exclusive religion, I don't know what to do with the phrase "of Jewish descent." Also I guess I should read DC Comics Bombshells.
3. Just about everyone is linking "All Star" in Aramaic, which is fair, beause it's a thing of beauty. Plus it provides me with an excuse to linkisis' glorious Slings & Arrows vid, "The Most Lamentable Comedy of Richard Smith-Jones."
4. Courtesy ofdavidgillon: new work from ten poets with disabilities.
5. Courtesy ofrydra_wong: ghosts of the heat wave, with photos.
6. Courtesy ofmoon_custafer: Peter and Harriet observing the ghosts at Bredon Hall.
7. As I catch up on months of magazines I haven't been reading, these two poems chime really well: Laura Read's "Phallogocentric" and Britanny Hause's "A Cocky Poem."
8. Courtesy ofhandful_ofdust: fantastic photocollage Hexslingers. With Liev Schreiber and everything.
9. Courtesy ofselkie: raising the clameur in St Peter Port.
10. Last week I feel I reached some kind of developmental milestone: I read four and a half poems out of A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Young (1924) to my niece who is just a little more than four and a half herself. She was charmed by "Market Square," "Disobedience," "The Four Friends," "The King's Breakfast," and then halfway through "Lines and Squares" decided she would rather watch an internet program about thylacines than hear about imaginary bears, but I was glad to read any of them to her; they are poems my mother and grandmother read to me. The book was her unbirthday present. She especially seemed to enjoy the use of props—a pair of pennies and a little stuffed animal rabbit—during "Market Square." I will be taking her to the MFA's "Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic" in September.
I watched two disappointing movies last night and I'm trying to decide if I should put the braintime into writing about them or just try to watch something tonight that doesn't disappoint me. [edit] I just watched Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) instead. I feel this was a fine life decision.
1. Courtesy of
brigdh: queequeg and ishmael! sauntering! in the streets of nantucket!2. The casting of Ruby Rose as Kate Kane has brought the recurring question of casting Jewish characters with non-Jewish actors back into the spotlight. Increasingly, except in cases where the person has actually converted to Christianity or some other mutually exclusive religion, I don't know what to do with the phrase "of Jewish descent." Also I guess I should read DC Comics Bombshells.
3. Just about everyone is linking "All Star" in Aramaic, which is fair, beause it's a thing of beauty. Plus it provides me with an excuse to link
isis' glorious Slings & Arrows vid, "The Most Lamentable Comedy of Richard Smith-Jones."4. Courtesy of
davidgillon: new work from ten poets with disabilities.5. Courtesy of
rydra_wong: ghosts of the heat wave, with photos.6. Courtesy of
moon_custafer: Peter and Harriet observing the ghosts at Bredon Hall.7. As I catch up on months of magazines I haven't been reading, these two poems chime really well: Laura Read's "Phallogocentric" and Britanny Hause's "A Cocky Poem."
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handful_ofdust: fantastic photocollage Hexslingers. With Liev Schreiber and everything.9. Courtesy of
selkie: raising the clameur in St Peter Port. 10. Last week I feel I reached some kind of developmental milestone: I read four and a half poems out of A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Young (1924) to my niece who is just a little more than four and a half herself. She was charmed by "Market Square," "Disobedience," "The Four Friends," "The King's Breakfast," and then halfway through "Lines and Squares" decided she would rather watch an internet program about thylacines than hear about imaginary bears, but I was glad to read any of them to her; they are poems my mother and grandmother read to me. The book was her unbirthday present. She especially seemed to enjoy the use of props—a pair of pennies and a little stuffed animal rabbit—during "Market Square." I will be taking her to the MFA's "Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic" in September.
I watched two disappointing movies last night and I'm trying to decide if I should put the braintime into writing about them or just try to watch something tonight that doesn't disappoint me. [edit] I just watched Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) instead. I feel this was a fine life decision.
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Queeqeg and Ishmael are great.
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That makes a lot of sense to me. There are some things I wish were being handed down to my niece that are not (she is not my child, her parents have different ideas of important things, this is how families work), but I do think of it as a responsibility. It makes me happy to pass on the things that I can, whether that's apples and honey for the new year or poetry.
Queeqeg and Ishmael are great.
They look so debonair! And I love the colors. The style looks like a woodblock.
Between answering these comments of yours, I ran into an article about judging favorably and thought of you, because like the author I have if anything an anti-stake in religion having an opinion on modesty of dress, but that doesn't mean the advice column he links to isn't modeling openness and kindness instead of condemnation and that's a nice thing to see.
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And re: the article on judging, *yes*, agree with you *very much*. This:
consider that the other person (a) has thought about the issue and has a different view; (b) has thought about the issue but doesn't view it as compelling in their life; (c) has thought about the issue and agrees with your view in theory but finds living up to it to be a greater struggle than you do; or (d) just never really thought about the issue at all --all much, much better than assuming malice, hypocrisy, willful ignorance, brutish insensitivity, or what-have-you.
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It's canon by me.
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Thank you! I think I may have read it when it was first published (I don't remember the movie posters, but I'm pretty sure about the dinosaurs), but I am honored to be thought of!
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Aww, that's lovely!
or just try to watch something tonight that doesn't disappoint me. [edit] I just watched Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) instead.
Sensible!
Thanks for all the links. I especially liked the Wimsey ghost art and the thing about St Peterport.
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I like my niece a lot.
Sensible!
My mother just re-read all the books and is now rewatching all the movies. I may join her for the rest from here on.
Thanks for all the links. I especially liked the Wimsey ghost art and the thing about St Peterport.
You're welcome!
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I'm sorry; have "Hallelujah" in Yiddish?
And thanks for the rec!
That video delights me!
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Daniel Kahn is a national treasure of several countries.
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It’s such a lovely stage to reach. My two are just a few months younger and we do three books at bedtime, one each their pick and one mine. My pick for the last while has been their first chapter book, which is the hardbound version of the first two Paddington collections that I was given for my fourth birthday. I must try them on AA Milne.
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Oh, wonderful! Now I'm wondering if my niece has yet been given Paddington. If not, I know what I'm getting for her next birthday.