#Samuel Hume

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Lee (2023) Review

The story and life of American photographer Lee Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Lee (2023) Review

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Struggling with this literary analysis. If anyone has tips or is willing to help me sort out my ideas, I’d appreciate it! Or just send me some good vibes lol

[herpsandbirds]

do you have any cool guys with names from other animals? Like cowbirds?

Animal Names:

Henlo, yess, I can think of a few animals off the top of my head...

Bullsnake (Pituophus catenifer sayi), defensive display, family Colubridae, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, OK, USA

Though this snake was once considered (by some herpetologists) to be a distinct species, P. sayi, it is now considered to be a Gopher Snake subspecies.

photograph by Randy Jones/USFWS

Capuchinbird aka Calfbird (Perissocephalus tricolor), family Cotingidae, found in NE South America

The common name “calfbird” come from the call of the male, which sounds somewhat like a mooing calf. Males call in leks.

photograph by Greg Hume 

Turtle Frog (Myobatrachus gouldii), family Myobtrachidae, Hill River, found in southwestern Australia

photograph by Akash Samuel

Amazon Sheep Frog (Hamptophryne boliviana), family Microhylidae, Peru

photograph by Cristian Torica

Giant Monkey Frog (Phyllomedusa bicolor), family Hylidae, South America

Photograph by Reptiles4All

[oblivious-melodies]

Based on the Jane Austen ask, which of the major characters (Artemisia, Ambrose, Felix, Hyder, Harry, Mariah, Amity, Jacob, etc.) are readers? And who would be their favourite authors and/or books?

Ooh lovely question! I had to have a proper think about this, and of course it's all hypothetical ahah. Artemisia and Ambrose are difficult because they'll be different people based on the choices you make in-game, but as mentioned, Arty totally fits the brief for an Austen reader of her period. Along those lines, I think she'd also be very interested by the novels of Frances Burney, and perhaps on her more adventurous days, something a little more out-there like Ann Radcliffe or Walter Scott (simply as their appeal was so wide - The Phantom of Castle Glenochrie was meant to parody this sort of literature!). Ambrose I can see very much enjoying Mackenzie's Man of Feeling, and sentimental/Romantic forerunners in the form of Laurence Sterne and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Keats wasn't particularly well-read in his own time, but I think Ambrose would be a fan :)

Speaking of poetry, Mariah is singled out as not being a novel reader. I think first-generation Romantics along the lines of Charlotte Turner Smith, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge would really appeal to her. I can see Felix, the firebrand that he is, having perhaps the most radical tastes of all - Byron and Shelley (again, the latter wasn't really a big hit in his time) for sure, but perhaps also more nakedly political writers such as John Thelwall and Thomas Paine. Hyder is far more establishment-leaning and would tend towards eighteenth-century Augustan works - Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, and perhaps Pope, but on his less vulgar days - I'm thinking Iliad rather than Dunciad. On the whole I think he'd be much more interested in some non-fiction such as Edward Gibbon or David Hume.

Harry strikes me as a very well-read individual - as mentioned, I think he wouldn't be opposed to Austen in the least, but certainly would get involved with metropolitan journalism and criticism. William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, and The Spectator would also be very up his street. He also favours the abolition of slavery and so the likes of William Cowper and Thomas Clarkson might appeal to him. Amity, we know, is a big reader, and I think she would love almost any form of travel literature, especially of the more salacious sort. The Chickwell book she reads is based on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's travels in the Ottoman Empire, and likewise other books regarding female travel and mobility (Germaine de Stael, Aphra Behn, or Eliza Haywood perhaps) would also entertain her. Jacob however is more practical than intellectual. Poetry with a rural/natural theme - perhaps Thompson's Seasons, or the works of labouring-class writers like Robbie Burns, John Clare, or Stephen Duck, might appeal to his sensibilities.

I almost wish you'd waited a little longer to send this, as in my opinion, some of the characters with the most interesting tastes are yet to come :)

[scotianostra]

18th August 1773 saw Samuel Johnson and James Boswell set out on their three month tour of the Highlands and the Inner Hebrides.

Boswell enticed his famous English friend Samuel Johnson to accompany him on a tour through the highlands and western islands of Scotland.

James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh, like many young men he longed to visit the bright lights of London and in 1760 he deserted the family home to live in the English capital for a few months. It was during his second stay in 1762-63 that he met his literary hero and model, the poet, essayist and dictionary maker Dr. Samuel Johnson. In August 1763 Boswell embarked upon a 2½ year Grand Tour of Europe, during which he met many notable men and women, including Voltaire and Rousseau. On returning to Scotland he practised law as an advocate. During this time he made occasional visits London to spend time with Dr Johnson and others of his circle, including Oliver Goldsmith, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Edmund Burke. He was also on familiar terms with David Hume, Adam Smith and other leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment.

Johnston and Boswell set off less than 30 years after the '45 Uprising, when whisky was still distilled illegally, roads were scarce and travel was by foot, bone-jangling carriage, horseback or over very turbulent seas in a rickety boat.

Their extraordinary journey to the Highlands and the Hebrides during an autumnal season of relentless rain and storms, took Johnson - plump, partially deaf and blind and who had rarely travelled outside of London - on a grand Scottish tour which led to two of the earliest travel books and paved the way for centuries of tourists who would also explore the nation’s wild islands and highland

While for the then 32-year-old Boswell there was a chance to witness Johnson up close for nearly three months, providing a wealth of material for his admired biography, Life of Samuel Johnson. The travel journal was a massive hit and a humorous account of their journey.

Boswell was Scots to his roots and is very defensive about the Scots and Scottishness, while Johnson has this very English take on it all. These two things fuel the humour, Johnson is like this English bulldog and Boswell is like a Scottish terrier. Together they are a hoot! Add to that the facts that as you would expect from a Scotsman, Boswell was a heavy drinker and Johnson was teetotal, which leads to all kinds of escapades. It’s like 18th century Laurel and Hardy.

Boswell, quoted their first conversation in the biography, Life of Samuel Johnson, saying: “Mr Johnson, I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it”. To which Johnson replied: “That, Sir, I find, is what a great many of your countrymen cannot help.”

It set the scene for a friendship driven by verbal sparring, with Johnson’s deprecating remarks about Scots robustly foiled by Boswell’s defence of homeland.

Their travels began in mid-August at Boyd’s Inn in Edinburgh, where the cleanliness dismayed Johnson. Boswell wrote: “He asked to have his lemonade made sweeter; upon which the waiter, with his greasy fingers, lifted a lump of sugar, and put it into it. The Doctor, in indignation, threw it out of the window”.

The pair then travelled up the east coast, stopping at St Andrews to indulge their interest in John Knox and Mary, Queen of Scots, Following the coast towards Aberdeenshire, a bit like today’s NC500 tourists plotting their route, they took an anti-clockwise course along the Moray Coast to Inverness and then to the Western Isles.

At times their journey resembled a lengthy pub crawl as they noted the quality of the inns and the food.

In Montrose, Johnson noted: “At our inn we did not find a reception such as we thought proportionate to the commercial importance of the place; but Mr Boswell desired me to observe the innkeeper was an Englishman, and I then defended him as well as I could.” Dundee, it was noted, was “dirty, despicable”. They even recorded their first taste of Arbroath smokies.

Having travelled through Glen Shiel, the pair arrived at the inn at Glenelg. Often praised today, Boswell and Johnson gave it the equivalent of a one-star TripAdvisor review. Having arrived “wearing and peevish”, they discovered “no meat, no milk, no bread, no eggs, no wine. We did not express much satisfaction.”

The Highland terrain posed even greater stress. Dangerous and often impassable except on foot, they were often in remote spots, miles from inns or shelter or ankle deep in a peat bog. Nevertheless, they trudged on through stormy weather and with Johnson often suffering from colds, increasing deafness and seasickness on the journeys between the islands.

The trip from Coll to Skye was undertaken during a vicious storm, with Boswell fretting over whether the boat might sink or explode, and troubled that he couldn’t understand the sailors’ Gaelic! Johnson was no great fan of the language, describing it as “the rude speech of a barbarous people, who had few thoughts to express, and were content, as they conceived grossly, to be grossly understood”.

But in Skye, they were delighted to meet Flora MacDonald, and slept in the same room that Bonnie Prince Charlie had slept in. “Both were over the moon because they were besotted with the story,” he wrote.

Don’t judge Johnson on his dislike of the Gaelic language though, the pair told of finding the Highlands still occupied by military garrisons, cleared by immigration and spoke of the suppression of Highland culture and oppression of the clans.

The isle of Raasay turned out to be a favourite spot, where the pair enjoyed the clan chief’s hospitality and a raucous ceilidh, with Boswell dancing a jig on the flat summit of Dun Caan. Both felt that in Raasay they had come close to authentic old Gaelic culture and way of life.

By October 1773 they were in the Saracen Head Inn in Glasgow’s Gallowgate, revelling in a roaring coal fire and conversation with professors from Glasgow University.

The trip would come to a sorry end, however, at Boswell’s family’s Ayrshire home at Johnson and Boswell’s father had an enormous row; they were total opposites in religious and political beliefs,

Johnson was a kind of father figure to Boswell. He knew Boswell could be a bit out of hand, but he also knew he was a real literary talent.”

Johnson’s A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, was published in 1775, followed a exactly decade later by Boswell’s The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson. Both wrote their own versions of their tour differently. They go to the same places but see things differently.

[breelandwalker]

Hi! Im a beginner witch and I'm starting to research things. I would like to include a section on my notebook about the history of witchcraft but every book I read gives me pretty bad migraines trying to figure out what to write down would you happen to know of any other places where I can find something a little easier to digest reading wise?

Podcasts! Sometimes it's easier to digest the information when it comes in an audio format. Trae Dorn has done some very good episodes on the history of the modern witchcraft movement on BS-Free Witchcraft and I've done a few on my own show, Hex Positive.

There's also The History of Witchcraft Podcast hosted by Samuel Hume, which has more of a focus on witch trials but also covers changing beliefs about magic in Western Europe. Historical Blindness has also done a few episodes about the history of witchcraft beliefs and superstitions, and the first season of Unobscured with Aaron Mahnke was a deep dive into the Salem witch trials.

In a more general sense, try to focus on one event, period, or geographic area at a time. There is a LOT of information and it's easy to get overwhelmed. I would suggest looking at the history of the modern witchcraft movement first, beginning with the occultism and Spiritualism movements in the late 19th century. That might help to narrow things down.

Also, if you want to try and tackle some weighty tomes or just want backup references, I would suggest picking up Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler and The Triumph of the Moon by Ronald Hutton. Both are well-researched and highly informative histories of modern witchcraft and paganism, with plenty of dates, photos, citations, and sources for further reading.

Hope this helps!

[chrisengel]

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Plato: To get to the essence of good

Marx: It was historically inevitable

Machiavelli: To instill fear in other chickens

Nietzsche: On the assertion of its will to power

Sartre: The chicken was ordered to cross the road

De Beauvoir: One is not born chicken, one becomes

Samuel Beckett: Because he was tired of waiting

Aristotle: To stop being in power, but in act

Camus: To challenge the absurdity of the world

Darwin: Because the chicken in the evolution of species, has become an animal crossing

Epicurus: To have fun

Kant: for respect the moral law

Pyrrho: What road ?

Zeno of Elea: To prove that he could never reach the other side

Kierkegaard: In despair of his chicken condition

Shakespeare: That is the question

Stuart Mill: To maximize his pleasure

Galilee: And yet, he crossed

Heidegger: Because the chicken is the shepherd of Being

Descartes: I cross, therefore I am

Hegel: To realize the reason in history

Spinoza: The chicken thinks he has freely crossed the road, but it ignores the causes he did so through

Rousseau: Because the chicken is good by nature

Pascal: Because the chicken is a thinking reed

Heraclitus: The chicken crossed because we never cross the same road twice

Hume: For me the chicken is a fictional idea

Husserl: It is the constitution of the ego that epoche, a mutation ego-ego notwithstanding the noetic-noematic component which is the origin of the object “road” for the subject “chicken”.

Mitterrand: The Road, it’s war

Confucius: Act against chicken as you would have them do unto you

Freud: The road is very clearly a phallic symbol, the fact of the cross reveals a profound liberation of the instincts (or that) chicken.

Leibniz: To maintain the universal harmony of the world.

Voltaire: To reduce intolerance

Aristotle: Because the chicken is a political animal

[cantikdaae]

I am always very invested in the new Phantom ensemble and who is going to play which ensemble part, and who they’ll be covering. As they never announce it beforehand.

Below I have a list of all the roles that are confirmed by the actors themselves or based on which part they play at the moment.

Hairdresser: Michael Colbourne (1st cover Raoul/2nd cover Phantom)

Wardrobe Mistress: Melanie Gowie (2nd cover Madame Giry)

Don Attillio: Hywel Dowsell (2nd cover Piangi/Andre)

Wild Woman: Frederica Basile (2nd cover Carlotta)

Auctioneer: James Gant (1st cover Phantom)

Madame Firmin: Victoria Ward (1st cover Madame Giry)

Monsieur Reyer: Samuel Haughton (1st cover Andre)

Monsieur Lefevre: Tim Morgan (1st cover Firmin)

Buquet: Leonard Cook (2nd cover Firmin)

Princess: Eve Shanu-Wilson (1st cover Christine)

Confidante: Zoë Soleil Vallée

Page: Colleen Rose Curran (2nd cover Christine)

Marksman: Ralph Watts (2nd cover Raoul)

Porter: Simon Whitaker (1st cover Piangi)

ballet: Serina Faull (2nd cover Meg Giry)

ballet: Florence Fowler

ballet: Eilish Harmon-Beglan

ballet: Yukina Hasebe

ballet: Grace Hume (1st cover Meg Giry)

ballet: Jasmine Wallis

ballet swing: Corina Clark

dancer: Thomas Holdsworth

dancer: Jacob Hughes

swing: Hollie Aires

swing: Lily De-La-Haye (1st cover Carlotta)

swing: Connor Ewing (3rd cover Phantom)

swing: Tim Southgate

swing: Andrew York

[dreams-of-mutiny]

MORTIMER ADLER’S READING LIST (PART 2)

Reading list from “How To Read a Book” by Mortimer Adler (1972 edition).

Alexander Pope: Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Man

Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu: Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws

Voltaire: Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary

Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones

Samuel Johnson: The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; The Lives of the Poets

David Hume: Treatise on Human Nature; Essays Moral and Political; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: On the Origin of Inequality; On the Political Economy; Emile, The Social Contract

Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy

Adam Smith: The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations

Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals; Critique of Practical Reason; The Science of Right; Critique of Judgment; Perpetual Peace

Edward Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Autobiography

James Boswell: Journal; Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier: Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry)

Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison: Federalist Papers

Jeremy Bentham: Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation; Theory of Fictions

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust; Poetry and Truth

Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier: Analytical Theory of Heat

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit; Philosophy of Right; Lectures on the Philosophy of History

William Wordsworth: Poems

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poems; Biographia Literaria

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice; Emma

Carl von Clausewitz: On War

Stendhal: The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma; On Love

Lord Byron: Don Juan

Arthur Schopenhauer: Studies in Pessimism

Michael Faraday: Chemical History of a Candle; Experimental Researches in Electricity

Charles Lyell: Principles of Geology

Auguste Comte: The Positive Philosophy

Honore de Balzac: Père Goriot; Eugenie Grandet

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative Men; Essays; Journal

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America

John Stuart Mill: A System of Logic; On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism; The Subjection of Women; Autobiography

Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; Autobiography

Charles Dickens: Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; Hard Times

Claude Bernard: Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience; Walden

Karl Marx: Capital; Communist Manifesto

George Eliot: Adam Bede; Middlemarch

Herman Melville: Moby-Dick; Billy Budd

Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brothers Karamazov

Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary; Three Stories

Henrik Ibsen: Plays

Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace; Anna Karenina; What is Art?; Twenty-Three Tales

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Mysterious Stranger

William James: The Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism; Essays in Radical Empiricism

Henry James: The American; ‘The Ambassadors

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; The Genealogy of Morals; The Will to Power

Jules Henri Poincare: Science and Hypothesis; Science and Method

Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams; Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis; Civilization and Its Discontents; New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

George Bernard Shaw: Plays and Prefaces

Max Planck: Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory; Where Is Science Going?; Scientific Autobiography

Henri Bergson: Time and Free Will; Matter and Memory; Creative Evolution; The Two Sources of Morality and Religion

John Dewey: How We Think; Democracy and Education; Experience and Nature; Logic; the Theory of Inquiry

Alfred North Whitehead: An Introduction to Mathematics; Science and the Modern World; The Aims of Education and Other Essays; Adventures of Ideas

George Santayana: The Life of Reason; Skepticism and Animal Faith; Persons and Places

Lenin: The State and Revolution

Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Things Past

Bertrand Russell: The Problems of Philosophy; The Analysis of Mind; An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth; Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits

Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain; Joseph and His Brothers

Albert Einstein: The Meaning of Relativity; On the Method of Theoretical Physics; The Evolution of Physics

James Joyce: ‘The Dead’ in Dubliners; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses

Jacques Maritain: Art and Scholasticism; The Degrees of Knowledge; The Rights of Man and Natural Law; True Humanism

Franz Kafka: The Trial; The Castle

Arnold J. Toynbee: A Study of History; Civilization on Trial

Jean Paul Sartre: Nausea; No Exit; Being and Nothingness

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The First Circle; The Cancer Ward

Source: mortimer-adlers-reading-list

[fumblingmusings]

I love the idea of Arthur being a member of the Royal Society after his Civil War. He doesn't contribute much in terms of actual discovery, but he loves to sit and make googly eyes at Isaac Newton or Christopher Wren and peer at Samuel Pepys or John Evelyn’s diary entries, chugging whatever hot drink he can get his hands on that decade and thinking about how these mathematicians and physicists' work applies to sailing.

Alasdair does a very similar thing with his Enlightenment circle, being a very avid member of the Poker Club one century later. He's just fascinated by those conversations on empiricism and empathy. He is much more sociological and philosophical than Arthur and his 'hard' sciences. Not too soft, though. I am almost sure Scotland probably punched David Hume in the face once. Or twice. He deserved it.

[jules-has-notes]

Aca Top 10: Summer Hits 2015 — VoicePlay music video

VoicePlay had kicked off their "Aca Top 10" series with the hits of summer 2014, and the next year gave them just as much good fodder to draw from. Their continued busy schedule provided the same impetus for another medley they could record in a way that didn't require much editing, but that doesn't mean they cut corners on their musicality or the party vibes.

Details:

title: Aca Top 10 — Summer Hits 2015

original songs / performers: "Time of Our Lives" by Pitbull & Ne-Yo; [0:23] "Want To Want Me" by Jason Derulo; [0:40] "Honey, I'm Good" by Andy Grammer; [0:56] "Sugar" by Maroon 5; [1:09] "Fight Song" by Rachel Platten; [1:20] "Bad Blood" by Taylor Swift, featuring Kendrick Lamar; [1:30] "See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth; [1:40] "Watch Me" by Silentó; [1:52] "Can't Feel My Face" by The Weeknd; [2:07] "Shut Up and Dance" by Walk the Moon

written by: "Time of Our Lives" by Armando "Pitbull" Pérez, Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald, Henry "Cirkut" Walter, Shaffer "Ne-Yo" Smith, Vinay Rao, Stephan Taft, & Michael "Freakin" Everett; "Want To Want Me" by Jason Derulo, Ian Kirkpatrick, Samuel Denison Martin, Lindy Robbins, & Mitch Allan; "Honey, I'm Good" by Andy Grammer & Nolan Sipe; "Sugar" by Mike Posner, Adam Levine, Joshua "Ammo" Coleman, Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald, Jacob Kasher Hindlin, & Henry "Cirkut" Walter; "Fight Song" by Rachel Platten & Dave Bassett; "Bad Blood" by Taylor Swift, Max Martin, Karl "Shellback" Schuster, & Kendrick Lamar; "See You Again" by Cameron "Wiz Khalifa" Thomaz, Charlie Puth, Justin "DJ Frank E" Franks, Andrew Cedar, Dann Hume, Josh Hardy, & Phoebe Cockburn; "Watch Me" by Ricky "Silentó" Hawk & Timothy Mingo; "Can't Feel My Face" by Ali Payami, Savan Kotecha, Max Martin, Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye, & Peter Svensson; "Shut Up and Dance" by Ben Berger, Eli Maiman, Ryan McMahon, Nicholas Petricca, Kevin Ray, & Sean Waugaman

arranged by: Geoff Castellucci

release date: 3 September 2015

My favorite bits:

the cool percussion riff Layne puts in as a radio edit during "Time of Our Lives"

the breakdown moment in "Honey, I'm Good"

Tony's fantastic side-eye as he sips his coffee during Earl's solo on the first two lines of "Bad Blood"

Eli leaning on Earl's shoulder, and Geoff and Layne gazing fondly at each other during "See You Again"

once again giving the most attention-seeking lyrics to Tony, who's actually quite shy (but performs it well, nevertheless)

Geoff's concerned expression as he makes sure that he can, in fact, feel his face

everyone else cutting out the first time Tony sings ♫ "shut up and dance with me" ♫

Layne gleefully tossing the final sign at the end of a successful take

Trivia:

A full arrangement of "Shut Up and Dance" was part of the Disney Sessions collaborations VoicePlay did with the cast of Newsies as part of the 20th anniversary celebration for Disney On Broadway earlier in the year.

They also included a snippet of "Bad Blood" in their Patreon launch video.

It seems as though the arrangement process happened about a month before they released the video, possibly during their downtime on a cruise ship.

[arwainian]

Reading this Week 2023 #47-52

hello hello! finals kinda kicked my ass in terms of reading as in there was a lot of it and it was kinda hard to keep track off around all the writing outside of where i made sure to have complete bibliographies. then after the momentum of keeping up with my reading logs had kinda fallen away... i'll continue this in the new year, but to make up for the log's absense, here is an extra long one that, while technically incomplete, will include a lot more of my thoughts on my reading than i ended up writing with a lot of my other entries

Finished:

Mr. Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo

read for my black queer literatures course, i really loved this book! it follows an elderly married couple from Antigua living in England, as Barry works himself to being able to come out as gay and divorce his Very religious Very homophobic wife Carmel. I love Carmel so much, and you really should read the book to figure out why I can say that about her because she really never stops being exactly as religious and exactly as homophobic as she started

Started and Finished:

Dark Reflections by Samuel R. Delany

also read for the black queer literatures course, and a solid reminder that I should read more Delany! the structure of it is pretty strange, we get a solid grasp of the main character, a poet and professor, as he reaches retirement age and then goes back to contextualize significant influential events in his life that got him to the point he ends at

“Representation of Rape in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and Robin Hobb’s Liveship Traders." by Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun

 “Desire in Narrative” from Alice Doesn’t: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema by Teresa de Lauretis

sections of Public Rape: Representing Violation in Fiction and Film by Tanya Horeck, Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature by Kathryn Hume, Rhetorics of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn, Reading Rape: The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in American Literature and Culture by Sabine Sielke, The Gender of Racial Politics and Violence in America: Lynching, Prison Rape, & the Crisis of Masculinity by William F. Pinar, Prison Rape: An American Institution? by Michael Singer, and Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination by Darieck Scott

all of the above were read in a mad dash for writing my final projects for the semester, and this isn't even everything, it's just everything I care to record for this reading log (do not worry, everything else IS in the bibliographies for their respective projects). the first article up there by Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun made me so mad?? bc in an effort to prop up Hobb's depictions of sexual violence as a feminist alternative to Martin's the scholar actually really underanalyzes Hobb's work, glosses over extremely important narrative context, and generally gives her work less attention to detail than was given to Martin! ugh. it does motivate me to write my own analysis tho.

I'd like to give a special highlight to Extravagant Abjection by Darieck Scott. my black queer lit prof recommended it to me early in the semester once he got a sense of where my academic interests lie and he was fucking RIGHT. it blew my mind and it's doing some excellent and challenging work with regards to black sexuality in literature in historical context. this is a book I'm definitely going to set some time aside to read the other chapters that weren't immediately relevant to my paper bc I'm sure I would still get something excellent out of them

and here's a line of extra text to give breathing room before I get into the much sillier reading I did for fun once finals were over

the rest of the f@tt fics for the project!

as i'm sure you have seen if you've been following me at all this past year, I have been doing a very silly project where i read every work of fanfiction published in the friends at the table ao3 tag. i finished that before the end of the year, and i am very proud of myself

Saga #66 written by Brian K. Vaughan and illustrated by Fiona Staples

yknow, with my love of snail mail I really should write in to the fanmail section of this comic I've really been enjoying. someone remind me to do that

Beastars, Vol. 18-22 by Paru Itagaki, translated by Tomo Kimura

GOD this was wild to read. you should read "what if zootopia was a psychosexual thriller" manga looking back, the messiness of this series makes a lot of sense now that I know it was Itagaki's first weekly serialized manga, but i still hold such a deep affection for it even though sometimes its pacing was a bit off. Legoshi is my babygirl and I do not use that term lightly. I love him very very much and I will forever get emotional about the fact that he has his grandfather's reptilian eyes, even if his official character profile only lists him as a grey wolf. I think what turned me on to this was a video essay a while back calling it excellent (I think it was Jack Saint?), because of the messiness of the allegory/metaphor going on here. because the animal things can be read in multiple different ways, it doesn't map cleanly onto any of them. that video essayist thought this was GREAT. i am slightly more ambivalent, because i think the overlapping metaphors mean sometimes events in the manga are simultaneously really profound from one angle and CRAZY reductive from another. so yeah, very very messy, but I think that's exactly what made reading this so arresting for me. really glad I finally finished it

Snotgirl, Vol. 1: Green Hair Don't Care written by Bryan Lee O'Malley, illustrated by Leslie Huang

frankly I think this would have worked better as a tv show. the art is great, but the pacing is awful, and it feels like with all the different things its trying to do none of them get any time to really breathe

Drip Drip by Paru Itagaki, translated by Tomo Kimura

an absurd manga about a woman with such intense OCD that she gets a nosebleed anytime she touches something she considers "unclean", and the struggles this brings to her attempts at dating. lots and LOTS of blood.

What Did You Eat Yesterday? Vol. 6-8 by Fumi Yoshinaga, translated by Yoshito Hinton

very cute cooking manga about a middle aged gay couple in tokyo. i just find it so wonderful to read their little daily adventures and relationship struggles

Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan D. Culler

lent to me by my friend to help me get a better grasp of literary theory since that's not my background despite being in an english master's now! thank you Hope!

Orange, Vol. 1-2 by Ichigo Takano, translated by Amber Tamosaitis

dug into my "comics horde" tag on libby to get a few more manga volumes in before the end of the year to meet my goodreads goal (i was very generous with myself and included bunch of books i read large sections of but not the entirety of for school). this is MOSTLY a pretty standard manga about a group of friends in high school, but tis made special by the fact that the main character is getting letters from her future self instructing her what to do so that she can correct the things she regrets!

Started and Ongoing:

He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan

I really really love She Who Became the Sun so I'm very excited to dig further in! just in the first few chapters, but its already hilarious how AWFUL Ouyang is at being a leader, and by hilarious i mean... oh no.....

Ongoing:

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

didnt actually read anymore of this, just marking it here so i remember its still ongoing. i'm not very motivated to get through it. partially bc i have other things (like cutest high school manga) to read if i just want fluff

false rings by evilmageclub on ao3

the final chapter of this fic i like got published! i am working my way through it bit by bit, but because i have a headache and desperately need to get to sleep, i actually will not be finishing this this year.... but i will be STARTING my new year with it. hell yeah

alright. goodnight. happy new year!

[brookstonalmanac]

Beer Events 12.27

Events

1st IPA from Burton, by Samuel Allsop, sent to India aboard the Bencoolen (1822)

Water tank burst during installation at the Heim Brewery, collapsing the floor & killing three (1886)

John Cochran patented a Hose Cleaner (1898)

West Virginia Brewers Protection Association founded (1900)

Prohibitionist Carrie Nation smashed up her first bar, destroying private property at the Carey Hotel in Wichita, Kansas (1900)

Gottlieb Klenk and Jacob Fink patented a Beer Box (1904)

John Panagopoulos patented a Beer Drawing and Cooling System (1938)

Butler Sheldon patented a Beer Pouring Device (1949)

Florian Dauenhauer patented a Hop Vine Cutter and Picker (1955)

Ballantine & Sons patented an Apparatus for Withdrawing Beer from Kegs (1966)

Schlitz Brewing patented a Dispensing Unit (1966)

Labatt Brewing patented a Combination Continuous/Batch Fermentation Processes (2002)

Breweries Opened

Pointer Brewery (Iowa; 1933)

Beer Pouring Device patented (1949)

Humes Brewing (California; 1993)

Mia & Pia's Pizzeria & Brewhouse (Oregon; 1996)

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