#ben zimmer

[a-state-of-bliss]

Vogue China June 2014 - Alana Zimmer by Ben Hassett

[samasmith23]

I am about to make a painfully obvious reference… I apologize for nothing!

From Ms. Marvel (2015) #26 by G. Willow Wilson & Nico Leon.

[lakecoded]

this is the worst writing i think i've ever seen i'm LOSING it

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

Hah... looks like working close together to freeze and reprogram Tony has led these two to become more than friends... right now it looks like Erica is graverobbing though...

[filmfanaticfables1990]

Pearl Harbor (2001): A Cinematic Journey Through Love And War

If you're a fan of epic war dramas and heart-wrenching love stories, then Pearl Harbor (2001) is a must-watch! Directed by Michael Bay, this film takes you on an emotional rollercoaster set against the backdrop of one of the most tragic events in history.

The story follows two childhood friends, Rafe McCawley (Ben Affleck) and Danny Walker (Josh Hartnett), who become pilots in the Army Air Corps. Their lives take a dramatic turn when they both fall in love with the same woman, nurse Evelyn Johnson (Kate Beckinsale). As their love triangle unfolds, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor changes everything, bringing chaos and heroism to the forefront.

Why You Should Watch

-Stunning Visuals: The depiction of the Pearl Harbor attack is nothing short of spectacular. Michael Bay's direction and the visual effects team have created a breathtaking and intense action sequence that will leave you in awe.

-Emotional Score: Hans Zimmer's musical score adds a layer of emotional depth to the film, perfectly complementing the dramatic moments.

-Historical Significance: While the film takes some creative liberties, it still serves as a reminder of the bravery and sacrifice of those who lived through this pivotal moment in history.

Critics' Take:

While Pearl Harbor has received mixed reviews, with some criticizing its lengthy runtime and formulaic love story, it remains a visually stunning and emotionally charged film. It's a movie that may appeal more to fans of action and spectacle rather than those seeking a historically accurate portrayal.

Final Thoughts

Pearl Harbor is a film that attempts to blend romance with historical tragedy. Despite its flaws, it offers a cinematic experience that is both visually and emotionally engaging.

[gemstarb]

Watch "INTERSTELLAR - Main Theme - Hans Zimmer (Beautiful Orchestral Cover by Ben Berkenbosch)" on YouTube

[thebutcher-5]

Madagascar (film)

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo siamo tornati a parlare di horror e lo abbiamo fatto con un film particolare che univa vari generi tra cui horror, fantascienza e commedia e che con il passare del tempo è diventato un cult amato da molti, compreso me. Il film in questione è Tremors. Val ed Earl sono due tuttofare che vivono nella minuscola cittadina di Perfection e…

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

obsessed with the infamous "blorbo from my shows" shitpost being quoted in the opening of the new york fucking time's word of the year article without ever once mentioning that it originated in the unsung bedrock of internet culture: tumblr dot gov dot edu dot net slash careers

[irisbleufic]

I found a playlist on Spotify called "Caldera (Devil's Minion)" and I'm assuming that's yours but wanted to make sure- it's great!

Yep! That's mine. It's what I've been listening to while I work on the stories in my series and a work in progress, although I haven't removed anything from it. I might as well post the link to the playlist and the track listings for those that don't have Spotify.

Daniel - Bat for Lashes

Vesuvius - Sufjan Stevens

I Forget Where We Were - Ben Howard

Make You Better - The Decemberists

Hal - Yasmine Hamdan

St. Jude - Florence + The Machine

I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher

Strange Kind of Love - Peter Murphy

Video Cor Meum - Patrick Cassidy, Hannibal OST

Funnel of Love - SQÜRL & Madeline Follin

Happens to the Heart - Leonard Cohen

Song to the Siren - This Mortal Coil ft. Elizabeth Fraser

Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush

Pompeii MMXXIII - Bastille & Hans Zimmer

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in July 2024 🌈

🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats, and happy July! Pride Month may be over, but remember: Read Queer ALL Year. Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Happy reading!

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ Earth to Alis - Lex Carlow 🧡 Cursed Boys and Broken Hearts - Adam Sass 💛 The Sky on Fire - Jenn Lyons 💚 The Meaning of Liberty - Sage Donnell 💙 Making It - Laura Kay 💜 The Black Bird of Chernobyl - Ann McMan ❤️ A Map of My Want - Faylita Hicks 🧡 The Devil You Know - Ali Vali 💛 The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power - Various 💙 The Second Son - Adrienne Tooley 💜 Cursed Under London - Gabby Hutchinson Crouch 🌈 Forbidden Girl - Kristen Zimmer

❤️ Rise - Freya Finch 🧡 Undercurrent - Patricia Evans 💛 Online Rebellion - Blue Matt Jeff 💚 Wolf Gift - T.J. Nichols 💙 Cash Delgado Is Living the Dream - Tehlor Kay Mejia 💜 Miller: Origin - Starr Z. Davies ❤️ The Shadows Beyond - T.J. Rose 🧡 The Ones Who Come Back Hungry - Amelinda Bérubé 💛 Their Viscountess - Jess Michaels 💙 Fast Holiday - Kerry Lockhart 💜 The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky - Josh Galarza 🌈 The West Passage - Jared Pechaček

❤️ The Hades Calculus - Maria Ying 🧡 Misrecognition - Madison Newbound 💛 One Last Summer - Kristin Keppler 💚 Waypoint Seven - Xan van Rooyen 💙 Hiding Him - Adam Hattan 💜 Thousand Autumns - Meng Xi Shi, Me.Mimo ❤️ The Adventure Zone, Vol. 6: The Suffering Game - Various 🧡 Rowan & Aldred - Lucie Fleury 💛 Yoke of Stars - R.B. Lemberg 💙 Casting Vows - Ariella Talix 💜 Count Felford's Vessel - S. Rodman

❤️ The Actor and His Secret - Ben Alderson, Laura R. Samotin 🧡 How To Die Famous - Benjamin Dean 💛 So Witches We Became - Jill Baguchinsky 💚 The Amazing Alpha Tau Romeo and Juliet Project - Lisa Henry, Sarah Honey 💙 The Noble’s Merman - S.S. Genesee 💜 The Loudest Silence - Sydney Langford ❤️ Life is Strange - Brittney Morris 🧡 Bury Your Gays - Chuck Tingle 💛 I Will Never Leave You - Kara A. Kennedy 💙 The Blonde Dies First - Joelle Wellington 💜 Under the Lupine Moon - A. Knightley

❤️ Benji Zeb is a Ravenous Werewolf - Deke Moulton 🧡 Charlotte Illes Is Not a Teacher - Katie Siegel 💛 The Ghostkeeper - Johanna Taylor 💚 Trespass Against Us - Leon Kemp 💙 Exes & Foes - Amanda Woody 💜 The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl - Bart Yates ❤️ Unbound - J.A. Vodvarka 🧡 StreamLine - Lauren Melissa Ellzey 💛 Time and Time Again - Chatham Greenfield 💙 No Road Home - John Fram 💜 Queen B - Juno Dawson 🌈 A Darker Mischief - Derek Milman

❤️ Beautiful & Terrible Things - S.M. Stevens 🧡 Benvolio & Mercutio Turn Back Time - Elle Beaumont, Lou Wilham 💛 About Last Night - Laura Henry 💚 You Had Me at Happy Hour - Timothy Janovsky 💙 Moonbane - Jamie Jennings 💜 Between Fate & Failure - Amber D. Lewis ❤️ Blessed by the Cupid Distribution System - Robin Jo Margaret 🧡 Between Dragons and Their Wrath - Devin Madson 💛 Twisted Magic - Barbara J. Webb 💙 Rare Birds - L.B. Hazelthorn 💜 At the End of the River Styx - Michelle Kulwicki 🌈 Origin Story - Jendi Reiter

❤️ Eras of Us - Shannon O'Connor 🧡 Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema - Willow Maclay, Caden Gardner 💛 A Wolf in Stone - Jane Fletcher 💚 Toward Eternity - Anton Hur 💙 Portrait of a Shadow - Meriam Metoui 💜 Anyone's Ghost - August Thompson ❤️ Home Ice Advantage - Ari Baran 🧡 Unbelievable You - Chelsea M. Cameron 💛 Incorrect Eyes - Andromeda Ruins

[bibliophilecats]

Your 10 (ish) Most Read Authors (According to Storygraph or Whatever System You Use)

What are your ten most Most Read Authors? And how many books have you read by them? Also tag someone who you would like to do this!

Thank you @the-forest-library for tagging me

Here are my Storygraph stats:

Data goes back to 2016. I am sure that data further back would include Marion Zimmer Bradley (I still own 34 of her books and have read more) and Mercedes Lackey (28). I also read a lot of Cornelia Funke (11+), Astrid Lindgren (18), Erich Kästner (13+), and Jonathan Wylie (11 - anybody else know the books? I loved them). And T. Kingfisher will soon move to the list as I already read several books by her and have even more on my physical tbr (13 books in total so far).

Looking at the list, I have to clarify that quantity does not equal love for the author. E.g. I am slowly reading my way through the over 20 The Cat Who mysteries. They are fun, short, easy mysteries and perfect as a palate cleanser or in between when I do not know what to read next. And I did get really annoyed at The Southern Vampire Mysteries (did you know that Sam is not a tall man? I sure do and will never forget because Sookie tells us this in Every. Single. Book! At least once). And Kiiro Yumi is author of a manga with 15 installments which, while fun, just add up like that.

That aside, there are several of my favourite authors on that list: Tamora Pierce, Terry Pratchert, Marc-Uwe Kling, Maggie Stiefvater, and Ben Aaronovitch.

I tag (no pressure) @lizziethereader @books-are-portals @linebetween @clockwork118 @belle-annd-the-book @more-better-words

[dalennaugw]

Reading the play-by-play of 2023's WOTYs was very entertaining. Yes I stuck my linguist salad in Ben Zimmer's position I couldn't not.

(Do I tag the OP? I don't really know that I want OP to see my goofy OC doodles. But I want to link back to them so people can see the thread behind these without shadowbanning this post or whatever the hell it is Tumblr does.

@kwekstra don't look here this is just for other people to find you. Thanks.)

[allthingslinguistic]

All Things Linguistic - 2022 Highlights

2022 was a year of opening up again and laying foundations for future projects. I spent the final 3 months of it on an extended trip to Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand, which is a delightful reason to have a delay in writing this year in review post. 

Interesting new projects this year included my first piece in The Atlantic, why we have so much confusion on writing the short form of "usual" and 103 languages reading project: inspired by a paper by Evan Kidd and Rowena Garcia. 

Continuations of existing projects: 

Return of LingComm Grants

A survey for those using Because Internet for teaching

10 year Blogiversary of All Things Linguistic: highlights from the past year and highlights from the past decade

6 years of Lingthusiasm

Conferences/Talks

LSA 2022 and judging Five Minute Linguist

I was on panels about swearing in SFF and the Steerswoman books at a local literary speculative fiction con, Scintillation

I was on panels at WorldCon (ChiCon 8) in Chicago: Ask A Scientist, That's Not How That Works!, and Using SFF for Science Communication

I was a contestant for the second time in Webster's War of the Words, a virtual game show fundraiser for the Noah Webster House.

I attended the Australian Linguistics Society annual meeting in Melbourne and the New Zealand Linguistics Society annual meeting in Dunedin, where I gave a talk co-authored with Lauren Gawne called Using lingcomm to design meaningful stories about linguistics

Lingthusiasm

In our sixth year of Lingthusiasm, a podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics which I make with Lauren Gawne and our production team, we did a redesign of how the International Phonetic Alphabet symbols are layed out in a chart, in order to correspond more closely with the principle that the location of a symbol is a key to how it's articulated. This involved much digging into the history of IPA layouts and back-and-forths with our artist, Lucy Maddox, and we were very pleased to make our aesthetic IPA design available on a special one-time edition of lens cloths for patrons as well as our general range of posters, tote bags, notebooks, and other all-time merch. 

We also did our first Lingthusiasm audience survey and Spotify for some reason gave us end-of-year stats only in French, which I guess is on brand, but we were pleased to see notebooks, and Lingthusiasm is one of Spotify's top 50 Science podcastsF/href.li/?https:/www.redbubble.com%2Fi%2Fmouse-pad%2FAesthetic-IPA-Chart-Square-by-Lingthusiasm%2F129215087.G1FH6&t=OTkxYjYxYjNmMzA1M2VhNGViOGIxZWIxOGI0NDRjYjE2YTIzYTE2NCw2YTgzNDQyZTM3MzY0YjRkNjc3NGJkNzhhYzJhMzk3ZjA2Y2NkYzIz&ts=1684794278">other all-time merch!

Main episodes from this year

Making speech visible with spectrograms

Knowledge is power, copulas are fun.

Word order, we love 

What it means for a language to be official

Tea and skyscrapers - When words get borrowed across languages

What we can, must, and should say about modals

Language in the brain - Interview with Ev Fedorenko

Various vocal fold vibes

What If Linguistics

The linguistic map is not the linguistic territory

Who questions the questions?

Love and fury at the linguistics of emotions

Bonus Episodes

We interview each other! Seasons, word games, Unicode, and more

Emoji, Mongolian, and Multiocular O ꙮ - Dispatches from the Unicode Conference

Behind the scenes on how linguists come up with research topics

Approaching word games like a linguist - Interview with Nicole Holliday and Ben Zimmer of Spectacular Vernacular

What makes a swear word feel sweary? A &⩐#⦫&

There’s like, so much to like about “like”

Language inside an MRI machine - Interview with Saima Malik-Moraleda

Using a rabbit to get kids chatting for science

Behind the scenes on making an aesthetic IPA chart - Interview with Lucy Maddox

Linguistics and science communication - Interview with Liz McCullough

103 ways for kids to learn languages

Speakest Thou Ye Olde English?

Selected Tweets

Linguistics Fun

aunt and niece languages

Swedish chef captions

IPA wordle

wordle vs kiki

creative use of emoji and space

resume glottal stop

dialects in a trenchcoat

which of these starter Pokemon is bouba and which is kiki

(for no author would use, because of the known rendolence of onions, onions)

acoustic bike

An extremely charming study by Bill Labov featuring a rabbit named Vincent

Rabbit Meme

Cheering on linguistics effects (Stroup and Kiki/Bouba) in a vote on the cutest scientific effect name

Old English Hrickroll

The word you get assigned with your linguistics degree

Sanskrit two-dimensional alphabet

Cognate Objects

Linguist Meetup in Linguaglossa?

baɪ ði eɪdʒ ʌv θɚti

j- prefixing

"But clerk, I am Bill Labov" (pagliacci meme)

Usual winner

Because Internet Tumblr vernacular

Linguist "Human" Costume

Cursed kiki/bouba

dot ellipsis vs comma ellipsis

intersection of signed languages and synesthesia?

Antipodean linguistic milestone

Selected Blog Posts:

Linguistic Jobs

Online Linguistics Teacher

Impact Lead

Customer Success Manager

Hawaiian and Tahitian language Instructor, Translator & Radio Host

Language Engineer

Data Manager & Digital Archivist

Linguistics fun

xkcd: neoteny recapitulated phylogeny

Eeyore Linguistic Facts

Lingthusiasm HQ: Frown Thing!

xkcd is making a vowel hypertrapezoid

Title: Ships and Ice Picks: An Ethnographic Excavation of alt.goncharov

Missed out on previous years? Here are the summary posts from 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. If you’d like to get a much shorter monthly highlights newsletter via email, with all sorts of interesting internet linguistics news, you can sign up for that at gretchenmcc.substack.com.

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

So Rhodey killed the nuclear side of SI and some of his board members went "Well we have to get rid of all this nuclear material... I know! We'll see it to an arms manufacturer and terrorist organization!" Wild... capitalism in a nutshell here...