all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

featuring a blink-and-you'll-miss-it very minor role for a young Audrey Hepburn!

If I ever had a DNA editing robot I’d probably name it Gene Hackman as a little joke.

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fair enough. my metric is if i've heard of them without seeking them out then they must have come from some sort of font of common knowledge.

real question from a non-specialist: why is he so famous if he is so terrible?

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

On further research, it seems like of all the animated or live action versions out there, there has only ever been one attempt at filming the piper at the gates of dawn - an episode of the 1984 stop-motion tv series:

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yeah, it was leaning so hard into the "twee animals in suits capering through the forest" angle that it sort of forgot to do anything else. fantastic vocal cast, however: alan bennett, michael palin, michael gambon, rick mayall, vanessa redgrave (!).

i watched the 1995 animated version yesterday, and had a Nice Time without having my mind blown by the animation. it also totally omitted the piper at the gates of dawn, which you'd think would have been an opportunity for a showpiece, but apparently not.

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Alvin Lucier didn't conceive and perform "I am sitting in a Room" for me to hear that echo chambers are creatively uninteresting en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Si...

The Queen's Throat - Wikipedia

"The Queen's Throat" by Wayne Kostenbaum is a top-notch historical/academic/personal history of queerdom in opera, especially among the audience: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Que...

hi. i don't do this much. apologies if in poor taste.

Bjork - Like someone in love YouTube video by Cruise Control

Does listening to Björk help? youtu.be/lGWBx51eda8?...

In the 1948 Hamlet film Laurence Olivier was 11 years older than Eileen Herlie who played his mother.

I went to the museum all about his work in Prague last year. Had never heard of him beforehand and had my mind kind of blown.

What is the territory labelled "P.O.B." in the box to the right of the box with Sicily? Port of Something?

Really don't understand how there are people who don't like Irish trad or folk. It's the only kind of music that alternates between making me want to dance, cry, and chase a redcoat over the bog with a pike

Ice on the water, not yet on the pavement

Hitchcock like the idea of "the 39 steps" enough to make a film about it.

The White Stripes vs Anton Bruckner YouTube video by Jos Thys

Also maybe Vienna, since the riff was lifted from Bruckner's fifth symphony youtu.be/VT3h2X64gwM?...

Would you recommend pursuing a career as a writer considering the risks involved and the opportunity costs of not pursing other paths in life?

And is etymologically related to "fascist"?

Canada also just beat Ireland, which is another big upset, but not quite as big as USA beating Pakistan.

Canadian cricket team in the United States in 1844 - Wikipedia

The USA played Canada at cricket in 1844, marking not only the first ever international cricket match, but also the first ever international match of any sport. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadia...

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