#Eli Goldstone

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Cunk on Earth

TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2023

Cunk on Earth (2022, UK)

Director: Christian Watt

Writers: Charlie Brooker, Jason Hazeley, Tom Baker, Ben Caudell, Eli Goldstone, Diane Morgan, Joel Morris, Michael Odewale & Sam Ward

Mini-review:

Cunk on Earth is exactly what I needed this week. Lately I've been feeling overwhelmed by work and I needed something to get my mind off things and help me relax and laugh, and that's exactly what this show did. It's just completely hilarious. The jokes come one after another and they hit way more often than they miss. It manages to throw some biting social commentary here and there in a way that felt perfect, too. And that recurring gag made laugh out loud every single time, it's genius. I spent the episodes waiting for it to come up Also, Diane Morgan is an absolute master at deadpan humor, her delivery is pitch perfect throughout the five episodes. Her Philomena Cunk becomes an iconic character from the very first episode. I would honestly to love to see more Cunk takes on other stuff in the future, so I really hope they make sequels.

[worstlovesong]

It sound like you have used up your thoughts allocation for the day

Cause they cute

You can think arms

Arm <3

[lboogie1906]

Elma Lewis (September 15, 1921 – January 1, 2004) was an influential educator and advocate for the arts. Born in Boston, she was the daughter of immigrant parents from the West Indies. She was a product of the Boston public school system and earned a BA from Emerson College while working as an actress. She earned an MA in Education from Boston University.

She opened the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts in 1950 in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. Originally housed out of an apartment, the school quickly grew and expanded. She formed a friendship with Eli Goldston and was able to have the old Hebrew Academy and Synagogue building in Roxbury appraised at 1.4 million and then donated to become the site of the Elma Lewis School.

She taught ballet to impoverished kids in Roxbury partly to show them the possibilities of their bodies and minds and thus remind them that they could overcome their circumstances. Her students went on to careers in entertainment, and the arts, and some have opened their specialized schools as well. Students like Ipyana Wasret, a renowned art curator, and writer Sayif M. Sanyika, credit their success to the foundations they obtained from her school. To expand the arts in her community and get drug dealers out of the area, she created a summer theater program, Playhouse in the Park, and brought in musicians ranging from Duke Ellington to the Boston Pops Orchestra.

She founded the National Center of Afro-American Artists as an umbrella organization for her school and similar programs throughout the nation. Although the Lewis school closed in 1986, the NCAAA continues to carry out the mission she envisioned.

She was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for her work in cultural development in Boston’s Roxbury. She received the Presidential Medal for the Arts from President Ronald Reagan. She has served as a trustee for the Massachusetts College of Art and as a member of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphakappaalpha

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Five steps of Wikipedia for Saturday, 25th November 2023

Welcome, שלום, こんにちは, Bienvenue 🤗 Five steps of Wikipedia from "George Triantis" to "Benjamin Cutter". 🪜👣

Start page 👣🏁: George Triantis "George Triantis is an American lawyer focusing in bankruptcy, business and corporate law, commercial, contract and risk management, currently the Charles J. Meyers Professor at Stanford Law School and formerly the James and Patricia Kowal Professor of Law there and then also Eli Goldston Professor..."

Step 1️⃣ 👣: Harvard Law School "Harvard Law School (HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, Harvard Law School is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States. Harvard Law School's history of innovation in legal education and its..."

Step 2️⃣ 👣: A Civil Action (film) "A Civil Action is a 1998 American legal drama film directed and written by Steven Zaillian and starring John Travolta with Robert Duvall, James Gandolfini, Dan Hedaya, John Lithgow, William H. Macy, Kathleen Quinlan, and Tony Shalhoub. Based on the 1995 book of the same name by Jonathan Harr, it..."

Step 3️⃣ 👣: 1790 House "The 1790 House, also called the Joseph Bartlett House or the Bartlett–Wheeler House, is a historic house located at 827 Main Street, Woburn, Massachusetts, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is close to the Baldwin House, with the Middlesex Canal running between them. The..."

Image licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0? by Daderot at en.wikipedia

Step 4️⃣ 👣: A Civil Action "A Civil Action is a 1995 non-fiction book by Jonathan Harr about a water contamination case in Woburn, Massachusetts, in the 1980s. The book became a best-seller. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction.The case is Anderson v. Cryovac. The first reported decision in the case is..."

Step 5️⃣ 👣: Benjamin Cutter "Benjamin Cutter (Woburn, Massachusetts September 6, 1857 – Boston May 10, 1910) was an American violinist and composer. He studied at the Stuttgart Conservatory in the German Empire, was later a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, then taught at the New England Conservatory of Music. His..."

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Danielle Babbles About Books - Strange Heart Beating by Eli Goldstone

Rating: 3/5 stars

Adult Content: sex, sexual references, references/suggestions of sexual abuse and rape

Review: Well that was odd. I’m not sure I’ll ever know what to make of this novel. It was well-written and I liked the juxtaposition of Leda’s diaries with Sebastian’s weird journey because he’ll never know the truth, especially with the people he’s talking to and whichever woman it was who said this was right that he should probably let things go and trust Leda’s judgement. When I was listening to the audiobook I was thinking about how there are so many stories about people - especially widowers, mothers, and sisters who try to reconstruct a dead woman. It is after the woman is safely dead that secrets come out and the living are forced to realize that maybe they don’t know everything and then they have a journey and feel nostalgic and confront that the dead woman isn’t what they thought she was but she’s still often idealized. Now don’t get me wrong reconstruction of the dead stories can include any sort of relationship or non-relationship but there’s something about the dead woman... it’s connected the mystery/horror trope of finding a scantily clad or naked and “alluring” dead woman. These two closely related tropes seem to be branches of the “women are a permanent, ultimate mystery” trope that is common in our society’s mythos and has its roots in misogyny. So thinking about that trope and how many books are dedicated to reconstructing a dead woman I found it interesting how this story compares to the tropes. It follows some and breaks down others. Leda had her reasons for keeping secrets, she had her reasons for changing her name, and Seb is really very trusting and waffles between wanting to know all about Leda’s past and also wanting to construct a totally different woman from the one he knew. Like, based on his own narration he’s not looking to “reconstruct” Leda, he’s trying to construct a Leda of the past that he never knew and who never even existed because Seb’s sources of information are untrustworthy.

Favorite Quotes: “Imagine me asking Seb to sit down in the living room and asking him to wait there while upstairs I squeeze my feet into a pair of shoes that I had worn as an eleven-year-old...Imagine me saying ‘Seb, I wanted you to see me in these shoes, and imagine my husband looking at me, and saying ‘Why?’ Well, I said, that’s what I think about telling Seb about Leila... because it’s none of his business.”

“What happened? What happened? I want to be specific with my truth. I want to cast out the demons that play with my hair while I sleep.”

[tigerfush]

So how can I want what actually brings me joy? How can I quiet the Eraserhead baby – which nobody is convinced is actually a baby at all but instead simply various unhappinesses, swaddled – and reach for the things that provide lasting joy and satisfaction? If only I knew. We are taught to want, but not too much. We are rewarded for consuming, but judged for taking more than our fair share. It is a strange thing to navigate a world that encourages and shames us for the same behaviours, and difficult not to assign moral value to our urges – to categorise each desire as either good or bad. Instead I focus on remembering times when I have felt calm and fulfilled – not the sweet little drip, drip, drip of dopamine throughout the day but the deep, quiet satisfaction at the end of a difficult task, or a long journey with something beautiful at the end of it. Of course, it’s not about one or the other. Thankfully for me. I will try to live life mindfully, to create long-term goals, etc – but ultimately I will always serve my lizard-brain king.

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Books Read in May:

1. Innocence (Penelope Fitzgerald)

2. Sleepwalking (Julie Myerson)

3. To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)

4. Strange Heart Beating (Eli Goldstone)

5. The Penderwicks (Jeanne Birdsall)

6. The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (J.B.)

7. The Penderwicks at Point Mouette (J.B.)

8. The Penderwicks in Spring (J.B.)

9. The Penderwicks at Last (J.B.)

10. Housekeeping (Marilynne Robinson)

[naranzarian]

Do you want to be desired? Then you must ask for what you want. Demand more attention from the world. If you are afraid to demand, then ask politely. Ask in a small voice. Suggest that you exist.

– Eli Goldstone, "Unfuckedness"

[khalayak]

There are many pathological causes of laughter: epilepsy (gelastic seizures), cerebral tumours, Angelman syndrome, strokes, multiple sclerosis, amytrophic lateral sclerosis (motor neurone disease). The name for uncontrollable and persistent laughter is, of course, Homeric. The etymology of Homeric laughter can be traced back to the Iliad – asbestos gelos – the unceasing laughter of the gods, who look down upon us to see our suffering and delight in it. The reason their laughter is without end is because our suffering is without end.

Eli Goldstone, Strange Heart Beating

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Out This Week – May 5th

Must read new releases to rush out and buy...

Don’t Be A Dick Pete by Stuart Heritage for a memoir that’s both a touching tribute to brotherhood and an exploration of modern masculinity.

The Nothing by Hanif Kureshi for a witty, acerbic novella about an ageing, bed-bound film director who suspects his much younger wife of cheating.

The 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet for a genius literary thriller about writers, global politics, and the power of language itself.

The Ice by Laline Paul for a thriller set in the melting Arctic tundra, as a body in the ice sparks a murder mystery.

Strange Heart Beating by Eli Goldstone when his wife is killed by a swan, Seb finds letters to a man in her native Latvia, and goes in search of answers.

Support a local bookstore!

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Strange Heart Beating, Eli Goldstone

[worstlovesong]

Here yah go~~ also Sarah

Theee cutest photo to ever exist fr I love them

[eggsaladstain]

I do not carry grief with me any longer. I'm not strong enough. My arms are too full.

Eli Goldstone, Strange Heart Beating

[sztupy]

mi mind gyíkemberek vagyunk!

[jessicafurseth]

Reading List, Dissent edition. 

“The vision ahead may seem a bit bleak but my feeling about life is a curious kind of triumphant feeling about — seeing it bleak — knowing it so and walking into it fearlessly because one has no choice, enjoying one’s consciousness.” [Georgia O’Keeffe]

"Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.' But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today, but for tomorrow.” [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

[Image by Liam Devereux]

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Winter is coming, but maybe it could be ok?

On how to adapt a positive winter mindset (please ignore the twee tendency to treat regular Scandinavian words as revelations) [Jen Rose Smith, National Geographic]

"In Tromsø, the prevailing sentiment is that winter is something to be enjoyed, not something to be endured. … The Polar Night seemed to hold its own unique opportunities for mental and emotional flourishing." [Kari Leibowitz, The Atlantic]

A case for going for really long walks by yourself, listening to audiobooks and expecting nothing from it but a nice walk [Jonn Elledge, The New Statesman]

And get a flu shot! I say this every year, but with the pandemic it���s especially relevant. (No, you can’t get sick from a flu shot if you’re a healthy adult, it’s a myth.) [Katherine Harmon Courage, Vox]

We are sentenced to hope. [Nasri Atallah, GQ]

"I still have all this self-optimizing energy, and, because I can work from home, a fierce desire to do something other than stare at my computer all day. So I go to the backyard. And then I go to the hardware store.” [Anne Helen Petersen, The New York Times]

“[During lockdown], we have been forced to look closer at [the clothes] we already own, rather than what we might. We have become anthropologists in our own closets, finding comfort, security, relief, meaning and, on occasion, answers. Clothes are so often about that odd intersection between our fantasies and our insecurities: who we want to be publicly. When image and pretense are removed, they become about our inner worlds.” [Lou Stoppard, The New York Times]

“Social skills are like muscles that atrophy from lack of use. People separated from society — by circumstance or by choice — report feeling more socially anxious, impulsive, awkward and intolerant when they return to normal life.” We’re all socially awkward now. [Kate Murphy, The New York Times]

“Growing old gracefully really means either disappearing or sticking around but always lying straight to people’s faces about the strength of your feelings and desires.” Are you ageing correctly? [Heather Havrilesky, The Cut]

“The way people reacted when I told them I was a cleaner; as if what I was ­doing was the beginning of an argument that they hadn’t prepared for." [Eli Goldstone, The New Statesman]

‘Before Sunrise’ is 25, and eternal [Simon Bland, Huck Magazine]

“Do you miss music? Not just background music, but music that you really love? Do you miss your CD collection? Do you miss staring at the wall? Do you miss your lovely, weird, deeply familiar and ever expanding taste? Chances are high what you’re really missing is time with yourself — and time away from your identity as a worker or a parent.” [Anne Helen Petersen’s Culture Study]

“I could say, ‘Yeah, I gangbanged,’ and people would still be like, ‘I don’t know. She seems twee.’ It doesn’t really matter what I do, so I feel pretty free at this point.” Miranda July! [Alex Jung, Vulture]

"It is family lore that when my grandfather, a life-long accountant, was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he retreated to the home office of his Athens apartment and spent hours at his desk writing sums. When he died, my dad flew to Greece, opened my grandfather’s office door, and found hundreds of loose sheets of paper covering his desk and his chest of drawers and almost all of the floor. Each sheet was filled with simple equations, the kind you do in school, scrawled. When my dad returned home after the funeral, he explained what he’d discovered. Amidst terror, my grandfather had taken comfort in definite answers, in being right. Sums had offered escape from the terrible not-knowing. At least in his office, he had been able to sweep away a dark fog of incomprehension.” [Alex Moshakis, WePresent]

[hatingwithfears]

TOP 75 ALBUMS OF 2021

75- Soshi Takada- Floating Mountains

74- Lionmilk- I Hope You Are Well

73- Elori Saxl- The Blue of Distance

72- Geneva Skeen- Turning of The Day

71- Ryley Walker- Course in Fable

70- Shirley Collins- Crowlink

69- Big Brave- Vital

68- Turnstile- Glow On

67- Yu Su- Yellow River Blue

66- Sarah Mary Chadwick- Me and Ennui are Friends Baby

65- Sons of Kemet- Black to The Future

64- Dr. Lonnie Smith- Breathe

63- Lost Girls- Menneskekollektivet

62- Darkside- Spiral

61- Daniel Aged- You are Protected by Silent Light

60- Little Simz- Sometimes I Might be Introvert

59- Eli Keszler- Icons+

58- Zenjungle & Valiska- Years From Now

57- Marianne Faithful & Warren Ellis- She Walks in Beauty

56- Moin- Moot!

55- Murcof- The Alias Sessions

54- Pino Palladino, Blake Mills- Notes With Attachments

53- Decoherence- System I

52- Gojira- Fortitude

51- Bill Orcutt, Chris Corsano- Made Out of Sound

50- Dry Cleaning- New Long Leg

49- Sloppy Jane- Madison

48- Mogwai- As The Love Continues

47- Madlib- Sound Ancestors

46- Paul McCartney- McCartney III Reimagined

45- Deafheaven- Infinite Granite

44- BadBadNotGood- Talk Memory

43- Koreless- Agor

42- Brian Wilson- At My Piano

41- Nik Bartsch- Entendre

40- John McLaughlin- Liberation Time

39- Geese- Projector

38- Nadja- Luminous Rot

37- Full of Hell- Garden of Burning Apparitions

36- Cassandra Jenkins- An Overview on Phenomenal Nature

35- Shackleton- Departing Like Rivers

34- Parannoul- To See The Next Part of The Dream

33- Yasmin Williams- Urban Driftwood

32- Nala Sinephro- Space 1.8

31- Dylan Carlson, Lori Goldston- Feral Angel

30- Jessica Pavone- Lull

29- Portico Quartet- Monument

28- Foxing- Draw Down The Moon

27- Mira Calix- Absent Origin

26- Arca- Kick ii-iiiii

25- Matt Sweeney, Bonnie Prince Billy- Superwolves

24- Bo Burnham- Inside (The Songs)

23- Sven Wunder- Natura Morta

22- William Parker- Trencadis

21- Tyler The Creator - Call Me if You Get Lost

20- Elbow- Flying Dream I

19- Charolette Greve- Sediments We Move

18- Lingua Ignota- Sinner Get Ready

17- William Doyle- Great Spans of Muddy Time

16- Lambchop- Showtunes

15- Mason Lindal- Kissing Rosy in The Rain

14- Mdou Moctar- Afrique Victime

13- The Body- I’ve Seen All I Need To See

12- Ches Smith and We All Break- Path of Seven Colors

11- Jaubi- Nafs at Peace

10- Real Loud- Real Loud

9- Lucy Dacus- Home Video

8- Julien Baker- Little Oblivions

7- Irreversible Entanglements- Open The Gates

6- The World is a Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid to Die- Illusory Walls

5- Stephen Wilson- The Future Bites

4- The Antlers- Green To Gold

3- Pharaoh Sanders, Floating Points and The London Symphony Orchestra- Promises

2- Low- Hey What

1- Nick Cave & Warren Ellis- Carnage