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This really does measure something about your brain, because I was up most of the night because my 4-year-old daughter kept coughing herself awake. Yesterday I could always at least get to 12 letters, and sometimes a handful more, but now I can't… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

“A poet should be recognizable not by his style but by the way in which he looks at things.” This is such a brilliant way to think about what poetry is. I tend to think of poetry as, essentially, playing with language, and therefore look to… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Simon Mayo, on the film podcast he does with Mark Kermode, referred to the Covid pandemic as “what with one thing and another” and I’ve often thought that phrase could be expanded to fit everything that was going on right now. [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

One of the many things that bugged me about Timely as a character is that he’s anachronistic in a lot of easy to catch ways. To give an example, in the last episode he used the term “science fiction”, decades before it was coined. I thought at first… [more]
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FanFare comment - 5 months ago

Personally, I’d like to reinforce the “parish notices” aspect of MetaTalk, with meetup announcements, births, cool news and just kinda random community events and happenings. And alphabet threads. A lot of that got shunted away for serious… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 5 months ago

Björk Sings from the Icelandic Songbook
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MeFi post - 6 months ago

There's riding your defeated enemy's horses. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 6 months ago

Loki, at its best, is like a good Doctor Who episode (finding joy in the everyday and weird characters being fun) and at its worst it’s like bad Star Wars (plot contrivances explained as supernatural forces and billions dying with little import)… [more]
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FanFare comment - 6 months ago

"an epistolary novel in the form of twelve folksongs"
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MeFi post - 6 months ago

General Malaise: An album is on way too many lists with an antisemitic verse by someone with a deep history of antisemitism Noname's album was my biggest musical disappointment of the year. I've loved all her work until now, and I was so… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Jacques Pépin's Fast Food
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MeFi post - 6 months ago

That looks like an interesting list, and the albums I've listened to are indeed good. Thanks for posting it, hippybear! One thing I've been struck by in recent days, looking at English-language "best songs/albums" lists online is how… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Oh, and to stop being grumpy and get into the spirit of the post, the album released this year that I've listened to the most is certainly Lana Del Rey's Do You Know There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd? with Blur's The Ballen of Darren being a close… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Amelia Tait wrote an earlier article about potato chip flavors and mentioned Tayto and Murphy, but yeah, it's a bit odd not to mention that in this article too. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

That was significantly better than I expected. That's a really well argued video, and dovetails with things I've been thinking about for years. Way back in 2006, film critic Mark Kermode talked about the "death of the art of narrative… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

The Wikipedia entry on the album has the full writing credits. Also, full disclosure, Brynjólfur Jóhannesson, one of the singers of Brestir og brak, is my great-grandfather. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

"Mysterious but lovable"
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MeFi post - 6 months ago

It’s been mentioned a couple of times, but I just came across the full quote from Gore Vidal’s memoir about running into Kissinger at the Vatican (the Agnellis are a family of Italian industrialists): The Agnellis had taken over the newly restored… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Ben Trismegistus: That shot straight to the mirror was hard to watch. I thought so too. In fact, what I thought in the moment was: "That's the first time I've ever seen Paul Rudd look his age." [more]
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FanFare comment - 6 months ago

If someone saying he was a time traveler had told me in the 1998 that by the year 2023 people wanted John Carmack to shut up more and John Romero to say more, I'd've said: "what is it like to plug your brain into the consensual hallucination of… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

This is incredibly fascinating! I got totally lost in looking at videos of sand drawing online. This one is my favorite. It features Edgar, and the subject of the drawing, which he tells the story of, is the enslavement of Pacific islanders by the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

some of you may regret that we won’t have Kissinger to kick around anymore but friends, we have shovels [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

In my circuit of various websites chronicling the truly sickening amount of death and destruction that Kissinger was responsible for, I stumbled on a speech he gave in 2007, recounting when he was part of a US Army unit that liberated the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Oh jebus I hope this is the end of Jonathan Majors’ Kang. I minded him less in this episode than in the previous ones, possibly because he was so extraneous. Everything that happened was essentially just one character, Loki, figuring shit out, and… [more]
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FanFare comment - 6 months ago

It seems to mostly adhere to a one entry per series rule, but somehow Final Fantasy Tactics is different but Ultima Underworld isn’t. Anyway, speaking of the latter series, if you have to choose just one, Ultima IV is a good choice, but I’d opt for… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

If, like me, you’re fascinated by Wikipedia and the production of historical knowledge, his latest video, How One Man Rewrote 1000 Years of History is really fascinating. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

I think St. Oops and rednikki are referring to Hipster – The End of Western Civilization by Douglas Haddow and its ensuing thread. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Huh, I thought I was au fait with the history of blogging, having been a reader of Justin Hall’s links.net in the mid-90s, but I’d never heard of Ranjit Bhatnagar. I added information about him to the Wikipedia entry on blogs. That I learned… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

I was surprised to find that I had seen most of these films, as I don’t really think of myself as a Fincher fan. I wouldn’t dispute putting Zodiac up top, it is a great film, but I feel that the writer doesn’t understand Fight Club. It’s a comedy,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

I think there are two fairly obvious contributing factors, that play into this. The first is that the hipster subculture goes mainstream in the early 00s, with its focus on reusing stuff and handcrafts, and no other subculture has since eclipsed it… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

One thing I wonder about is whether this has something to do with more restrictive gender roles for straight men and women. Frowner and phunniemee’s observations above about the disappearance of short hair on straight women is astute, and I think… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

And here’s the MetaFilter thread about Anderson’s article. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

The other day I saw a photo of John F. Kennedy at a 1963 White House thanksgiving celebration, pardoning a turkey that had a sign around its neck which said “Good Eating, Mr. President!” “That’s clearly not real,” I thought, given that in 1963… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

mumimor: This is so complicated. To the peoples of the perpetrators, genocide is always a complicated story, because they have to answer the question "how did human beings we consider us… how did we… commit such an awful crime?"… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

"I feel that my body was colonised" - Naja Lyberth
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MeFi post - 6 months ago

mumimor is Danish [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

I finally tracked down the origin of the "restoring an ancient Buddhist statue" quote, it comes from the liner notes to the Citta' '93 album, which some kind soul has posted on Reddit. Kubota's description of how he remastered the album is… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

I agree, pyramid termite. Philosopher Isaiah Berlin had a lovely parlor game of an essay where he posited that all artists could be classified as either hedgehogs or foxes, based on an ancient Greek line of poetry that said that foxes know many… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

My wife is Finnish and we currently live in Helsinki. First of all, the childcare system is not perfect, for instance there are only about half the number of fully licensed early education teachers working for the city of Helsinki that there should… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Not much in the way of news so far today, except that magmatic gas has been detected, confirming that the magma is near the surface, and geologists are still expecting an eruption in the next few days. Meanwhile, the Guardian’s Nordic correspondent,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

mumimor: This is factually wrong: the Danish government did not sexually assault or sterilize any women at all. They systematically enforced the use of IUDs on Greenlandic children which was abusive, horrible and wrong, but is neither sexual… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Wezley Buell Frazier, the coworker who got Lee Harvey Oswald his job at the Book Depository, and drove him to work 60 years ago, is still alive, I believe. He'd be about eighty. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

In the top fifty: Five female artists. Four albums by guys named Bob. I'm never entirely surprised, exactly, but I'm still always a little bit shocked. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

My mom researches why people choose certain careers and jobs. In the 90s, she surveyed kids in Iceland, mostly 15 year olds. She had these questions on her survey about what kinds of music they listened to, and they were intended mostly as a way of… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

box: It brings me no joy to observe that you missed the person with the third-best-selling rap album (in the US) of all time, Kid Rock. oh no now I must sign up yet again for a session with Lacuna to erase from my mind all memories of Kid… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Over the last few days, people have been going to their homes, escorted by search-and-rescue volunteers, to collect their most important belongings, and any animals that were left behind. From what I understand, the pluponderance of inhabitants will… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

It’s still not certain that an eruption is imminent. From what I’ve gathered, geologists think it’s more likely than not, but that it wouldn’t surprise them if things would quiet down again. So far, a lot of the discussion in Iceland has centered… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

This is a really good piece, but I wanted to add a footnote to this statement: “This year, the duo’s fifth album, 2003’s Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, was certified platinum for the 13th time, making it the best-selling rap album in history… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

I love Emily of New Moon. It is an absolutely brilliant novel. Emily Bird Starr is such a complex literary creation, and one of the best depictions I can recall of being a child with dreams of being an author. Her writings, which appear in the text,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

A stray mention of a neglected writer in another article on Kathleen Sully, one Phyllis Paul, led me to discover that she didn’t have a Wikipedia page. Inspired by this post and Brad Bigelow of Neglected Books I decided to remedy that. Thankfully,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

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