Juliet Clark @semidetached@myna.social

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.

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

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

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

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/

Micro manager. https://www.gettyimages.ie/detail/news-photo/woman-talking-on-phone-while-cat-is-sitting-on-desk-news-photo/515448480?phrase=white%20cat%20

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.

Penelope Fitzgerald, Innocence. This "party" scene starring a count, a monsignor, and three novelists is the funniest thing I've read in a bit.

Special from the depths of my download folder for you: classic tiny bat footage

"Fish market, Milford Haven docks, 1979" https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/oct/01/cat-snaps-jane-bowns-feline-photographs-cats

Masterful trolling from this Google search preview.

New Web Project Immortalizes the Overlooked Women Who Helped Create Rock and Roll in the 1950s

https://www.openculture.com/2019/05/new-web-project-immortalizes-the-forgotten-women-who-gave-birth-to-rock-n-roll-in-the-1950s.html

I'm endlessly impressed by whoever does merchandising for #A24. The Hereditary Gingerbread Tree House might top the Green Knight #TTRPG.

Dew trap

#photography

My neighbour called round to see if I had any Blu-Tack in the house. He said he had a picture of a magnificent leopard and he wanted to put it up on his cupboard. He asked me whether I’d ever heard a cheetah purr. I said no. He had though, on the radio in Canada.