Juliet Clark @semidetached@myna.social
Obsolete skills specialist
Joined Nov 2022
I love the idea of somebody in 1944 (or now) hearing of a movie called CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly, thinking "That sounds like a heartwarming holiday romp," and being exposed to this: https://youtu.be/sBVWLwwkt3I
#filmnoir #itsnotawonderfullife
Season's greetings from eight-year-old me, who recognized the importance of managing expectations
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My son has been asking a lot of questions this Christmas season, and I'm worried it might be the last year he believes that Bitcoin is real.
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football as a hangover from the days when there was nothing else to do in your village except wait for Bela Tarr to get down off the bus one afternoon & start filming Satantango
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Lynne Murphy has an interesting new post about the similarities and differences between "go west" in British English and "go south" in American English. https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2022/12/go-westsouth.html #etymology
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I hope he gets to lie in state in the LA Zoo parking lot. The line would go to Burbank.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-17/p22-obituary-celebrity-mountain-lion-cougar-puma-griffith-park-california
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People laugh at the idea that 500K a year is middle class, but as you move into higher income brackets, your needs change. It's no longer about food and shelter, it's about staging mock sea battles on your man-made lake for 20,000 guests to win the favor of the Tsar
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New: A 21-year antedating of interjectional "shit", which I wrote up for the Strong Language blog:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2022/12/13/interjectional-shit-in-a-drunken-1844-diary-entry/
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Like pretty much anyone who ever heard his music or met him, we were gutted to learn yesterday that Hamish Kilgour has passed.
Soon after we moved into our building in Jersey City Hamish came and painted the inside of the very echo-friendly parabolic dome on the top floor. Here's a photo of Hamish and his work (courtesy of WFMU DJ Stork), along with some more recent photos of the dome. Sending love to his family, friends, and fans.
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Penelope Fitzgerald, Innocence. This "party" scene starring a count, a monsignor, and three novelists is the funniest thing I've read in a bit.
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Special from the depths of my download folder for you: classic tiny bat footage
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"Fish market, Milford Haven docks, 1979" https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/oct/01/cat-snaps-jane-bowns-feline-photographs-cats
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Every time I cook #Thanksgiving dinner I make notes to myself for next time. This year's list begins with "Don't try to get a head start on the cooking before having any caffeine. This was how you found yourself standing over the pumpkin pie bowl holding an open jar of garlic powder instead of ginger, cursing yourself and the alphabet."
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New Web Project Immortalizes the Overlooked Women Who Helped Create Rock and Roll in the 1950s
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horror movies; christmas; capitalism
Other people's conversations about #hashtags made me nostalgic for the Bad Guide classification system:
1. About Goats
2. Not About Goats
3. Partly About Goats
Belated RIP to AJP Crown. https://abadguide.wordpress.com/ #aboutgoats
Me: I don't remember which one was supposed to be happy and which one was supposed to be sad.
He: After a certain point it's all just anguish. Nuthin' you can do.
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Obsolete skills specialist
Joined Nov 2022
