#edward steiner

[troyssix]

✨️✨️ SOME OF YALL RLLY NEED TO GET INTO NEWSIES ✨️✨️

like no joke my man

[jamminvroomvroom]

the 2025 grid, according to silly szn (subject to change)

redbull: lando norris, max verstappen, charles leclerc, carola perez

mercedes: lando norris, charles leclerc

ferrari: lando norris, alex albon, the red telly tubby

aston martin: charles leclerc, queen elizabeth II

mclaren: my nan, lando norris

alpine: president macron, barbie

williams: jack wolff, roscoe

alpha tauri: the entire chinese f4 grid (jk, as if, L bozo)

haas: gene haas, gunther steiner

alfa romeo: the ghost of christmas past, edward cullen

[grandhotelabyss]

What are your favorite essays/collections of literary criticism?

Some favorite single essays:

Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Defence of Poetry"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet"

Herman Melville, "Hawthorne and His Mosses"

Matthew Arnold, "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"

Henry James, "The Art of Fiction"

Sigmund Freud, "The Uncanny"

Walter Benjamin, "Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death"

T. S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent"

Viktor Shklovsky, "Art as Technique"

Mikhail Bakhtin, "Epic and Novel"

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, "In Praise of Shadows"

G. Wilson Knight, "The Embassy of Death: An Essay on Hamlet"

Simone Weil, "The Iliad, or, The Poem of Force"

Jorge Luis Borges, "Kafka and His Precursors"

Ralph Ellison, "The World and the Jug"

James Baldwin, "Everybody's Protest Novel"

Leslie Fiedler, "The Middle Against Both Ends"

Iris Murdoch, "The Sublime and the Beautiful Revisited"

Flannery O'Connor, "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction"

Gilles Deleuze, "On the Superiority of Anglo-American Literature"

George Steiner, "A Reading Against Shakespeare"

Derek Walcott, "The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory"

Toni Morrison, "Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature"

Louise Glück, "Education of a Poet"

Camille Paglia, "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf"

Michael W. Clune, "Bernhard's Way"

Some favorite collections:

Samuel Johnson, Selected Essays

Oscar Wilde, Intentions

Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader

D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature

George Orwell, All Art Is Propaganda

Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation

Kenneth Rexroth, Classics Revisited

Guy Davenport, The Geography of the Imagination

Cynthia Ozick, Art and Ardor

V. S. Pritchett, Complete Collected Essays

Gore Vidal, United States

Joyce Carol Oates, The Faith of a Writer

Tom Paulin, Minotaur

J. M. Coetzee, Stranger Shores

Michael Wood, Children of Silence

James Wood, The Broken Estate

Edward Said, Reflections on Exile

Gabriel Josipovici, The Singer on the Shore

Clive James, Cultural Amnesia

William Giraldi, American Audacity

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Garfield (live action) anime style

Garfield - Edward Elric

Odie - Alphonse Elric

Jon arbuckle - Gray Fullbuster

Liz wilson - Juvia Lockser

Arlene - Winry Rockbell

Nermal - Natsu

Louis - Happy

Happy chapman - Battamonda

Wendell - Greed

Christopher Mello - Spirit albarn

Little girl - Sugar

Abby the news reporter - Mirajane

Luca - Gajeel redfox

Mom and dad Rat - Lucky and Marl

Prince XII - Meliodas

Winston - Laios touden

Claudious - Chilchuck tims

Nigel - Tarte

Preston - Lector

Mcbunny Ussopp

Bolero - Franky

Romell - Panther lily

Eenie - lucy

Meenie - Erza

Christophe - Sting

Smithee - Senshi

Abby westiminister - Marcille

Mr. Greene - Weisz steiner

Mrs. Whittney - Nojiko

Lord dargis - Spandam

For @fantasyandromancelover and @bluebird167

[byneddiedingo]

Irene Dunne and Myrna Loy in Thirteen Women (George Archainbaud, 1932)

Cast: Irene Dunne, Myrna Loy, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond, Mary Duncan, Kay Johnson, Florence Eldridge, C. Henry Gordon, Peg Entwistle, Harriet Hagman, Edward Pawley, Blanche Friderici, Wally Albright. Screenplay: Bartlett Cormack, Samuel Ornitz, based on a novel by Tiffany Thayer. Cinematography: Leo Tover. Art direction: Carroll Clark. Film editing: Charles L. Kimball. Music: Max Steiner. 

Myrna Loy was born Myrna Williams in Helena, Montana, but you wouldn't know it from the way Hollywood often cast her at the start of her career in the '20s and '30s. Her role in Thirteen Women is probably the purest example of her work as the stereotypical sinister Eurasian. She plays Ursula Georgi, whom the cop played by Ricardo Cortez scorns as "Half-breed type. Half Hindu, half Javanese, I don't know." (Actually, Cortez himself knew something about crossing ethnic lines: He was born Jacob Krantz in New York, but Hollywood changed his name to capitalize on the vogue for Latin lovers like Rudolph Valentino and Ramon Novarro, and later claimed first that he was French and later that he was born in Vienna.) Ursula seeks revenge on the women who belonged to a sorority at a girls' college and blackballed her when she sought admission. She seeks out a phony seer known as Swami Yogadachi (C. Henry Gordon), whose horoscope readings the girls sought out, and hypnotizes him into sending them poison-pen readings that predict dire events. Two of the girls, the sisters June (Mary Duncan) and May Raskob (Harriet Hagman), have become trapeze artists, and June is so unnerved by the fake reading that she lets May fall to her death during a stunt and goes mad as a consequence. As others fall prey to Ursula's schemes, some of the survivors gather at the home of Laura Stanhope (Irene Dunne), who thinks that their hysteria over the deaths is absurd. Laura is the single mother of a son, Bobby (Wally Albright), who is one of those cloyingly cute movie children -- he calls her "Mumsy." But even Laura's calm vanishes when Ursula makes Bobby her next target. In addition to being stupidly racist, the movie is sheer hokum, a cockamamie blend of revenge thriller and police procedural, and it was not much of a success at the box office, even after RKO cut 14 minutes from it after test screenings -- one of the reasons why we learn the fates of only 10 of the 13 women. One of the performances cut to only four minutes was that of Peg Entwistle, who played Hazel, the one who kills her husband and goes to prison. Entwistle was reportedly so despondent about her movie career that she climbed to the top of one of the letters on the Hollywood sign (reports vary on whether it was the H or the D) and jumped to her death. As for Loy, this was her last outing as a Eurasian vamp: The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934) changed her screen image to that of the witty and soignée wife, most often of William Powell.    

[mustelidsinlove]

Nihil est ab Omni Parte Beautem by seselt on AO3

Returning for her Eighth Year at Hogwarts, Hermione Granger discovers the school itself has different plans for her.

Years of struggle had left Hermione with a strong wish not to do what she was told. Snape had kindled that defiance and Umbridge had cemented it. // “Have you killed?” He hadn't, not directly. He'd tortured and watched Muggles die but he had not with his own hand murdered anyone. Theo cherished that distinction // “Granger.” Theo dropped the dagger as soon as he was finished. He felt filthy, and a dirty, vicious part of him was aroused by the power and her submission. “Granger, it's done.” “I hate her.” Hermione breathed slowly. “I thought that once she was dead the hate would go away.” She blinked. The electric light was starkly reassuring she was not in Malfoy Manor. “It doesn't.” He sat down beside her, rubbing his hands on his shirt. Filthy. Disgusting. Tempting. “It's like a disease. It runs its own course regardless of the vector.” // Berengaria Yaxley tossed her hair and headed towards the twins. It was lovely hair with just the right amount of wave, Hermione thought enviously. Yaxley's hair probably didn't assassinate incautious combs like hers did. // He smirked, observing her as she collected herself. It was an odd thing to admire but he did. Hermione always got back up when thrown. She was resolute. Theo envied that intensely. His life was one of painful compromises. // Ducking into Professor Slughorn's office, Theo crossed to the fireplace to be tidily sick in the wood basket. His body warred between nausea and arousal. He was sick with what he had done but the rush of the Dark Magic could not be denied. The first time he had killed someone and what he wanted most was to fuck Hermione on Slughorn's Persian rug.

Very well-written, complex, and unique story about a rarer pairing (for which I have a soft spot). The world-building is stellar and original (particularly regarding pureblood culture, the fey, and house elf magic), the pacing admirable, and the detail surprising and memorable. I particularly like this Theo — there's nothing silly about him; he's calculating, reserved, mordantly funny, and very aware of his baser instincts and qualities. I really enjoyed being in his head, especially with relation to his conflicting feelings for and about Hermione and his self-disgust at his baser desires.

This story dabbles in many tropes that I'm not always a fan of (pureblood!Hermione, time travel fix it), but it does so from such unique angle and so compellingly that I was desperate for more! (There is an abandoned sequel; this can be read standalone without issue.)

Art:

(1) Love Among the Ruins (detail), Edward Burne-Jones, 1873

(2) Autumn Sun, Hans Steiner, 1890

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[a-dime-a-day]

So I just watched a 2014 bootleg performance of Broadwaysies on YouTube and I have some thoughts. I would have to rank it as my second favorite version of Newsies (still haven’t seen Uksies, sadly).

Corey Cott’s version is a lot sadder than Jeremy Jordan. I still love him, though. But Christian Bale will always be Jack Kelly to me.

Luca Padovan is sooo cute as Les. Everything he did was so adorable! I’ll have to put him as a tie with Luke Edwards (92sies) for my favorite version of Les! Both of those boys are better than Ethan Steiner (aka Livesies Les)!

Giuseppe Bausilio would have to be third place, but he’s still a better Racetrack than Ben Cook, as the latter makes him look more like a doofus.

The choreography and dancing gets better every time I see it!

Oh nice!! I always love watching different productions of Newsies too, and how they all tell the same story differently (esp local community productions!!) Also Corey Cott's voice is fr to die for 🤌🏼 I'm unfortunately not as familiar with those other two, but I'm sure they all did a great job! Esp if Luca's Les is less annoying than Ethan's 😭

Thanks for sharing!!

[kingofdoma]

Welcome to... THE MOST PATHETIC FINAL FANTASY CHARACTER BRACKET!

Hello everybody! I thought I'd get in on some more of this hot hot poll action and run a poll on who the most pathetic of all FF characters is. Just... if you would find them in a gutter, utterly defeated, you could not help but take pity on their poor soul. Of course, if you have a different definition, vote accordingly! Let's get this twerp-a-thon going!

Round 1: Cid vs. Sarah

Round 2: Nero vs. Mewt

Round 3: Arc vs. Vaan

Round 4: Ultros vs. Gilgamesh

Round 5: Steiner vs. Leblanc

Round 6: Biggs and Wedge vs. Reno and Rude

Round 7: Snow vs. Zell

Round 8: Edward vs. Gordon

Have fun, gang!

[lmelodymusicl]

My thoughts on Broadwaysies (2014)

I watched a broadwaysies slime tutorial that featured Corey Cott as Jack, Andy Richardson as Crutchie, Liana Hunt as Katherine, and Giuseppe Basusilio as Racetrack. Here are my thoughts on it.

What I liked about it:

Corey Scott as Jack was phenomenal. His version of Jack was a lot more sad and heartbroken while Jeremy Jordan’s version was more angry.

I really enjoyed seeing Liana Hunt’s version of Katherine. She’s brings a very level headed vibe to the character. Her chemistry with Jack was a lot better in this version.

Giuseppe Bausilio is great as Racetrack, as he still manages to match the same energy as Ryan Breslin. Although I still prefer Max Casella’s version.

Ben Fankhauser steals the show as Davey! EVERY.SINGLE.TIME!

Little Luca Padovan is soooo cute as Les! He brings a whole new, sassy, sweet and spunky energy to the character that I really liked. Basically, everything he did was so cute! I wanted to squeeze his cheeks every time I saw him!

So far I would have to tie him with Luke Edwards (92sies Les)! Both of those boys are still better than Ethan Steiner (Livesies Les)!

The choreography was just as good as I remembered, and I found myself wanting to dance along to it because of it!

What I didn’t like:

I still didn’t like how Sarah, Denton, and the original newsies were cut from the musical in order to make room for Katherine. All of them could’ve coexisted!

Andy Richardson’s version is still naive, although not so much as Andrew Keenan-Bolger.

Jack and Katherine’s relationship is still toxic. I would’ve written the latter to end up with Davey!

I still love Broadwaysies, regardless of all its flaws!

[zerogate]

And the fields of philosophy, anthropology, and psychology are just the beginning. We could easily go on for dozens, for hundreds, of pages demonstrating how these questions lay at the very center of Western intellectual and cultural life.

We could trace their pathways through numerous Nobel scientists, with physicists showing a particular fondness for the subject. We could then chart a similar lineage through major modern artists, including painters like Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky. The latter’s The Spiritual in Art, for example, is clearly indebted to the “Thought Forms” of Theosophy and the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner.

And this is before we even get to modern literature, with authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Fuller, Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lewis Carroll, W. B. Yeats, Henry Miller, Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen King, and Michael Crichton all writing explicitly about their spiritualist, psychical, paranormal, and occult interests and experiences.

Such occult experiences were hardly tangential to such authors. They were integral components of the creative process. Hence Bruce Mills has recently written about the mesmeric and magnetic currents that played such an important role in the creation of a distinctly American literature in the middle of the nineteenth century, and Alex Owen has written about “the symbiotic relationship among vitalism, occultism, and advanced literary ideas” in turn-of-the-century Britain.

The accomplished occultist W. B. Yeats, whose magical name was Demon Est Deus Inversus or “The Devil is God in Reverse” (they just called him “Demon”), might have been an extreme case, but he was hardly alone when he confessed to John O’Leary in a letter that the “mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.”

-- Jeffrey J. Kripal, Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 5.10

Beer Birthdays

Edward F. Sweeney (1860)

George F. Wiessner (1860)

Fred Eckhardt (1926)

George Fix (1939)

Marty Nachel (1958)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Fred Astaire; dancer, actor (1899)

Chris Berman; television sportscaster (1955)

Thomas Johnstone Lipton; tea merchant (1850)

Gary Owens; announcer, actor (1936)

Homer Simpson; cartoon character (1955)

Famous Birthdays

Jim Abrahams; film director (1944)

Milton Babbit; composer (1916)

Jean Becker; French actor and director (1933)

Bono; rock singer (1960)

John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (1838)

Barbara Taylor Bradford; English-American author (1933)

T. Berry Brazelton; pediatrician, television host (1918)

E. Cobham Brewer; English lexicographer (1810)

Maybelle Carter; country singer (1909)

Caroline B. Cooney; author (1947)

Teri Copley; actor (1961)

Fats Domino; rock singer, pianist (1929)

Donovan; Scottish singer-songwriter (1946)

Carl Douglas; Jamaican singer-songwriter (1942)

Sly Dunbar; Jamaican drummer (1952)

Ariel Durant; historian (1898)

Wayne Dyer; author (1940)

Linda Evangelista; Canadian model (1965)

Missy Franklin; swimmer (1995)

Augustin-Jean Fresnel; French physicist (1788)

Johann Peter Hebel; German writer (1760)

Donovan Leitch; pop singer (1946)

Dave Mason; rock musician (1946)

Desmond MacNamara; Irish artist (1918)

Mae Murray; actor (1889)

Lisa Nowak; astronaut (1963)

Konstantinos Parthenis; Greek painter (1878)

Marie-France Pisier; French actress, director (1944)

Hildrus Poindexter; bacteriologist (1901)

George Ross; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1730)

Rick Santorum; political nutjob (1958)

John Scalzi; writer (1969)

David O. Selznick; film producer (1902)

George E. Smith; physicist and engineer (1930)

Max Steiner; Austrian-American composer (1888)

Pat Summerall; television sportscaster (1930)

Suzanne, Duchess of Bourbon (1491)

Dimitri Tiomkin; Ukrainian-American composer (1894)

Sid Vicious; punk bassist (1957)

Nancy Walker; actor (1921)

[brookston]

Holidays 9.15

Holidays

Aglaia Asteroid Day

Battle of Britain Day (UK)

Bocage Day (Portugal)

Born to Be Wild Day

Cantabria Day (Spain)

Capitol Hill Day

Carbon Day

Chestnut Day (French Republic)

Echo Asteroid Day

Eleven Days of Global Unity, Day 5: Health

Engineer's Day (India)

Felt Hat Day

Free Money Day

German American Heritage Month begins [until 10.15]

Google Awareness Day

Grand Magal de Touba (Senegal)

Greenpeace Day

Grito de Dolores (a.k.a. Cry of Dolores; Mexico)

Hunger Action Day

International Day of Democracy (UN)

International Dot Day

International Gotcha Day

International Hypothalamic Hamartoma Awareness Day

International Myotonic Dystrophy Awareness Day

International Sing Out Day

International Wiedemann-Steiner Syndrome Awareness Day

Knowledge Day (Azerbaijan)

LGBT Center Awareness Day

Libraries Day (Belarus)

Make A Hat Day

Moonpie Day (Republic of Molossia)

National Africa Civility Day

National Brain Health Day

National Caregivers Day

National Cozy Mystery Day

National Custom Framing Day

National Day of the Cowgirl

National 8-Track Tape Day [also 4.11]

National Felt Hat Day

National Hispanic Heritage Month begins [until 10.15]

National Hug Your Boss (UK)

National Malcolm Day

National Muslim Voter Registration Day

National Neonatal Nurses Day

National Online Learning Day

National Ruben Day

National Tackle Kids Cancer Day

National Thank You Day

915 Day

Nuestra Señora de la Bien Aparecida (Cantabria, Spain)

Oriana Fallaci Day

Pension Awareness Day (UK)

Restoration of Primorska to the Motherland Day (Slovenia)

Roberto Clemente Day

Silpa Buirasri Day (Thailand)

Social Workers’ Day (Moldova)

Someday

Tackle Kids Cancer Day

Thimphu Tshechu (Bhutan)

World Afro Day

World Chimamanda Day

World Engineers Day

World Lymphoma Awareness Day

Zombie in the Machine Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Butterscotch Cinnamon Pie Day

Chicken Lovers' Day

National Cheese Toast Day

National Creme de Menthe Day

National Day of Pozole (Mexico)

National Double Cheeseburger Day

National Linguine Day

Independence & Related Days

Costa Rica (from Spain, 1821)

Cry of Dolores (Mexico)

El Salvador (from Spain, 1821)

Guatemala (from Spain, 1821)

Honduras (from Spain, 1821)

Lutherania (Declared; 2006) [unrecognized]

Nicaragua (from Spain, 1821)

Occitania (Declared; 2015) [unrecognized]

Restoration of Primorska to the Motherland Day (Slovenia)

Russian Republic (Proclaimed; 1917)

3rd Sunday in September

Day of Wallonia (Belgium) [3rd Sunday]

Federal Day of Thanksgiving, Repentance and Prayer (Switzerland) [3rd Sunday]

Forestry and Timber Industry Worker’s Day [3rd Sunday]

International Day of Prayer & Action for Human Habitat [3rd Sunday]

Kaua’i Mokihana Festival begins (Hawaii) [3rd Sunday]

Mother’s Day (Kazakhstan) [3rd Sunday]

National ALS Awareness Day (Italy) [3rd Sunday]

National Back to Church Sunday [3rd Sunday]

National Neighborhood Day [3rd Sunday]

National Women's Friendship Day [3rd Sunday]

Open Farm Day (Prince Edward Island, Canada) [3rd Sunday]

PEI Open Farm Day (Canada) [3rd Sunday]

Pig Face Sunday (Avening, UK) [3rd Sunday]

Serene Sunday [3rd Sunday of Each Month]

Seven For Sunday [Every Sunday]

Smörgåsbord Sunday [3rd Sunday of Each Month]

Story Sunday [3rd Sunday of Each Month]

Sundae Sunday [Every Sunday]

Sunday Funday [Every Sunday]

Swiss Federal Fast (Switzerland) [3rd Sunday]

Tolkein Week begins [Sunday in Week that includes 9.22]

Wife Appreciation Day [3rd Sunday]

World Peace Day [3rd Sunday]

Weekly Holidays beginning September 15 (3rd Full Week of September)

Adopt a Less Adoptable Pet Week (thru 9.21) [3rd Week]

Balance Awareness Week (thru 9.21) [3rd Full Week]

Build a Better Image Week (thru 9.21) [3rd Full Week]

Child Passenger Safety Awareness Week (thru 9.21) [3rd Full Week]

International Clean Hands Week (thru 9.21) [3rd Full Week]

International Women’s E-Commerce Days (thru 9.21)

Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week (thru 9.21) [3rd Full Week]

National Adult Services Week (thru 9.21) [3rd Full Week]

National Construction Week (thru 9.21) [3rd Week]

National Eczema Week (thru 9.21) [3rd Week]

National Farm Animals Week (thru 9.21) [3rd Week]

National Farm & Ranch Safety and Health Week (thru 9.21) [3rd Full Week]

National Go-Kart Week (thru 9.21) [3rd Full Week]

National Hispanic Heritage Weeks (thru 10.15)

National Historically Black Colleges & Universities Week (thru 9.21)

National Indoor Plant Week (thru 9.21) [3rd Full Week]

National Keep Kids Creative Week (thru 9.21) [3rd Full Week]

National Rehabilitation Awareness Week (thru 9.21) [3rd Full Week]

National Security Officer Appreciation Week (thru 9.21) [3rd Full Week]

National Singles Week (thru 9.21) [3rd Full Week]

National Surgical Technologists Week (thru 9.21) [3rd Full Week]

National Truck Driver Appreciation Week (thru 9.21) [3rd Full Week]

Prostate Cancer Awareness Week (thru 9.21) [3rd Week]

Reye’s Syndrome Awareness Week (thru 9.21) [3rd Week]

Festivals Beginning September 15, 2024

Boston Local Food Festival (Boston, Massachusetts)

Dinner in the Meadow (Louisburg, North Carolina)

Farmington Fair (Farmington, Maine)

Little Flower Parade (Wommelgem, Belgium) [thru 9.21]

Peñafrancia Festival (Naga, Philippines)

Purple Foot Festival (Fairport, New York)

Sussex County Day (Augusta, New Jersey)

Triangle VegFest (Durham, North Carolina)

Feast Days

Agatha Christie (Writerism)

Aicard (a.k.a. Achart; Christian; Saint)

Alpinus (a.k.a. Albinus) of Lyon (Christian; Saint)

Aprus (a.k.a. Èvre or Aper) of Toul (Christian; Saint)

Aunt Melba's Guernsey Cotillion (Muppetism)

Cantlos (Celtic Book of Days)

Catherine of Genoa (Christian; Saint)

The Feast of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Christian)

François de La Rochefoucauld (Writerism)

Gilles de Rais Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Goethe (Positivist; Saint)

Irish Coffee Day (Pastafarian)

James Chisholm (Episcopal Church)

Jesse Andrews (Writerism)

John the Dwarf (Christian; Saint)

Joseph Abibos (Christian; Saint)

Ksenia Milicevic (Artology)

Kshamavani (Forgiveness Day; Jainism)

Lucebert (Artology)

Saint Dominic in Soriano painting (Christian; Saint)

Mamilian of Palermo (Christian; Saint)

Martina Krupičková (Artology)

Media Aestas IX (Pagan)

Mirin (Christian; Saint)

Nicetas the Goth (Christian; Saint)

Nicomedes (Christian; Saint)

Our Lady of Aparecida Day (Cantabria, Spain)

Our Lady of Sorrows (Christian)

Really Bad Ideas Exhibition (Gremlins; Shamanism)

Roland de Medici (Christian; Saint)

Virgin Mary of the Seven Sorrows Day (Slovakia)

Islamic Lunar Holidays

The Prophet’s Birthday [Islam] (a.k.a. ... 

Baravfat (India)

Birthday of Prophet Muhammed (Cameroon, Kuwait, Lebanon, Maldives, Palestine, Sierra Leone, UAE)

Eid Al-Maulid Anebi (Eritea)

Eid-El-Maulud (Nigeria)

Eid-e-Milad-un Nabi (Bangladesh)

Gamo (Gambia)

Gamou (Senegal)

Hari Maulad Nabi (Cocos or Keeling Islands)

Le Mouled (Tunisia)

Maoulida (Mayotte)

Maouloud (Guinea, Senegal)

Maouloud-Al-Nebi (Chad)

Maulid (Tanzania)

Maulid Nabi Muhammad SAW 1444 H (Indonesia)

Maulidur Rasul (Brunei)

Mawleed al-Nabi (Afghanistan)

Mawlid (Ethiopia)

Mawlid al-Nabi (Jordan)

Mawlid An Nabi (Syria)

Mawlid En Nabaoui Echarif (Algeria)

Mawlid Nabi (Somalia)

Mawloud (Mali)

Mawlud Nabi (Gambia)

Mavlid Al Nabi (Cyprus)

Milad Al Nabi (Oman)

Miladunnabi (Bahrain)

Milad-un-Nabi (India, Sri Lanka)

Moulad (Iraq)

Mouled Al Nabee (Libya)

Moulid Al Nabi (Sudan)

Moulid El Nabi (Egypt)

Mouloud (Comoros, Djibouti, Niger)

Rabi' al-Awwal (Yemen)

Youman Nabi (Guyana)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

Alice the Jail Bird (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1925)

Almost Famous (Film; 2000)

American Beauty (Film; 1999)

Beer League (Film; 2006)

Be Without You, by Mary J. Blige (Song; 2005)

The Big Picture (Film; 1989)

The Black Dahlia (Film; 2006)

Blood & Chocolate, by Elvis Costello (Album; 1986)

Blue Train, by John Coltrane (Album recorded; 1957)

The Book of Merlyn, by T.H. White (Novel; 1977) [Once and Future King #5]

Bugsy Malone (Film; 1976)

Calliou (Children’s Animated TV Series; 1997)

CHiPs (TV Series; 1977)

Davy Crockett Goes to Congress (Disney TV Film; 1963)

Escape from Freedom, by Erich Fromm (Philosophy Book; 1941)

Everyone’s Hero (Animated Film; 2006)

Fast Times at Ridgemont High, by Cameron Crowe (Novel; 1981)

The Fighting Kentuckian (Film; 1949)

The Green Hat, by Michael Arlen (Play; 1925)

Hackers (Film; 1995)

Hammerklavier, a.k.a. Piano Sonata No. 29 in Bb Major, by Ludwig Van Beethoven (Piano Sonata; 1819)

A Haunting in Venice (Film; 2023)

Hit Me with Your Best Shot, by Pat Benatar (Song; 1980)

How to Play Football (Disney Cartoon; 1944)

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, by Dale Carnegie (Self-Help Book; 1948)

The Invention of Morel, by Adolfo Bioy Casares (Novella; 1940)

I Spy (TV Series; 1965)

It, by Stephen King (Novel; 1986)

L.A. Law (TV Series; 1986)

The Lone Ranger (TV Series; 1949)

Lost in Space (TV Series; 1967)

Love Story, by Taylor Swift (Song; 2008)

The Malady Lingers On (George of the Jungle Cartoon; 1967) [#2]

Mechanical Animals, by Marilyn Manson (Album; 1998)

A Noun is a Person, Place, or Thing (Grammar Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1973)

One, Two, Three...Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science, by George Gamow (Science Book; 1947)

The Pink Flea (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1971)

Pink Panzer (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1965)

Psst Pink (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1971)

Requiem in D Minor, by Anton Bruckner (Requiem; 1849)

The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, by Michael Moorcock (Novel; 1976) [Elric #2]

Saved by the Bell (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1950)

The Shadow Rising, by Robert Jordan (Novel; 1992) [Wheel of Time #4]

The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien (Novel; 1977)

The Singing Sap (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1930)

Some Time in New York City, by John Lennon and Yoko Ono (Album; 1972)

Sports, by Huey Lewis and the News (Album; 1983)

A Star is Bored (WB LT Cartoon; 1956)

The Sulli-Gully, by Ed Sullivan (Song; 1969)

The Sword in the Stone, by T.H. White (Novel; 1938) [Once and Future King #1]

Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo (WB Animated Film; 2006)

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by C.S. Lewis (Novel; 1952) [The Chronicles of Narnia #3]

Today’s Name Days

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Jolana (Czech Republic)

Eskild (Denmark)

Kulmo, Kulno, Kurmo, Kuulo (Estonia)

Sirpa (Finland)

Dolores, Roland (France)

Dolores, Melissa, Melitta (Germany)

Nikitas, Visarion (Greece)

Enikő, Melitta (Hungary)

Mamiliano, Maria (Italy)

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Eugenija, Nikodemas, Rimgailė, Vismantas (Lithuania)

Aslak, Eskil (Norway)

Albin, Budzigniew, Maria, Nikodem (Poland)

Jolana (Slovakia)

Angustias, Dolores (Spain)

Sigrid, Siri (Sweden)

Mykyta (Ukraine)

Delora, Delores, Dolores, Lola, Lolita (USA)

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[grandhotelabyss]

Do you think the current national literatures model in universities will be supplanted by comparative literature, cultural studies, or something else altogether? In other words, what is the future of literary studies in universities?

There is no future for literary studies in universities, but yes, you're right, and this has been happening for a while. Last time I checked, which was about 10 years ago, job searches in English were reserved for Americanists with multicultural specializations (i.e., America as globe) or for specialists in "global Anglophone literature," the replacement sub-field for what used to be modern Brit lit.

(In fairness, there were also ads for early modernists and Shakespeareans, but that material can be understood as pre-national as much as foundationally national, depending on your preferred Shakespeare play: close thy Henry IV and open thy Tempest.)

Nationalism as the political signature of modernity appears to be have been a vanishing mediator between pre- and post-industrial imperial epochs. The most famous comparatist of his generation, Edward Said, understood this, I believe. At times, he candidly allowed that his "Palestinian nationalism" was in fact a metaphor for a new internationalism, hence his urgently felt need to lay low Zionism, representing in his view the last gasp of 19th-century nationalism, and this in unexpected defense of how he himself grasped "Jewish intellection" as permanently diasporic consciousness. (I explained this controversial premise here.) Said's training in the similarly utopian if Euro-centric discipline of postwar comparatism, and his consequent reverence for Auerbach, probably inspired these global commitments more than Marxism or "postmodernism" did—consider also George Steiner—despite Said's more famous uses of Gramsci or Foucault. Auerbach ends Mimesis with that uneasy if progressive prophecy that Proust, Joyce, and Woolf portend the universalization of a common consciousness.

What do I think of this personally? I am skeptical of all political utopias—national, imperial, and "global." Much of modern literature was forged in the same crucible as the nation-state and needs to be understood in that context, despite the many satisfying ironies involved, such as German literary nationalists inspiring English and American literary nationalists in their nationalism, and therefore rendering their nationalism paradoxically internationalist. I have insisted, though, that literature, or rather art in general, needs to keep its options open about its social and institutional bases and shouldn't be too nostalgically attached to institutions that no longer serve its purposes, whether the nation-state or the university itself. Those are my opinions as a writer and as a one-time inhabitant of the English department. As a citizen, I have a certain obdurate immigrant's-child loyalty to American civic patriotism, but, because America is not an ethnic or a religious state, because it is a potentially universal polity—again, America as globe—this shouldn't be confused with nationalism.

[shes-a-cowboyyy-killer]

Thank you @tattwovonbeardy for the tag!!💗

• favorite color(s): sage green, turquoise, maroon, rust/burnt orange.

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Physical Books: Fractured Freedom by Shain Rose & Quarterback Sneak by Kandi Steiner

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currently craving: a good nights rest, a hug from my crush.

coffee or tea: both, just depends on my mood.

I honestly don’t know who to tag lol🙈😅

[byneddiedingo]

Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in Key Largo (John Huston, 1948)

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor, Thomas Gomez, Harry Lewis, John Rodney, Marc Lawrence, Dan Seymour, Monte Blue, William Haade. Screenplay: Richard Brooks, John Huston, based on a play by Maxwell Anderson. Cinematography: Karl Freund. Art direction: Leo K. Kuter. Film editing: Rudi Fehr. Music: Max Steiner. 

Key Largo was the fourth and last of the films that Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made together, but the movie was stolen by Claire Trevor, who won a supporting actress Oscar, and by Bogart's old partner in Warner Bros. gangster movies, Edward G. Robinson. It's a little too talky and stagy, partly because it was based on a 1939 Broadway play by Maxwell Anderson, a once-admired playwright whose specialty was blank-verse dramas. Huston and co-screenwriter Richard Brooks took great liberties with the play, changing the characters and the ending, and updating the action to the postwar era, but occasionally you can hear a bit of Anderson's iambic pentameter in the dialogue. Bogart's Frank McCloud was originally called King McCloud and was a deserter from the Spanish Civil War; in the movie he's a World War II veteran, something of a hero, who comes to Key Largo to visit the father (Lionel Barrymore) and the widow (Bacall) of an army buddy who was killed in Italy. He finds them being held in the hotel they own by a group of gangsters, headed by Johnny Rocco (Robinson), a Prohibition-era mobster who is trying to sneak back into the States after being deported. As so often -- cf. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1943) and To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944) -- the Bogart character is called on to make a choice between taking the kind of action he has renounced and remaining neutral. Bacall's role is somewhat underwritten, and the relationship  with Bogart is tepid in comparison with the films they made for Hawks, especially To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep (1946). Having to play opposite that scene-stealing old ham Barrymore doesn't help much, either. But Trevor fully deserved her award as Rocco's moll, an alcoholic club singer known as Gaye Dawn. She has a big moment when she's forced by Rocco to sing "Moanin' Low" on the promise that he'll let her have a drink -- which he then sadistically refuses her. As usual, Robinson is terrific, and also as usual, he failed to receive the Oscar nomination he deserved and was never granted. Karl Freund's cinematography helps overcome the studio's decision not to film on location.

[norahmusic]

A Trip to Music in Films (2/4)

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/me-the-self-and-i/202106/why-we-watch-movies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Theatre_of_Epidaurus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_theatre

https://www.abc.net.au/everyday/benefits-of-watching-movies/10830400

 https://thebioscope.net/  https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199791286/obo-9780199791286-0223.xml | https://filmsbytheyear.com/first-talkies-part-1-1900-le-phono-cinema-theatre/

Edward J. Muybridge´s Galloping Horse 1878, Edward James Muggeridgehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGKILJ1PGHM, Roundhay Garden Scene 1888, Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAiYFEHI9o8

Workers Leaving the Lumiére Factory in Lyon 1895,  Louis Lumiére, https://youtu.be/yvC_xrDqB3s?si=biISXWjjMPz33wpm | The Astonomers Dream 1898, Georges Mélies, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8SMIiQZUcs  , L´homme á la tête en Caoutchouch 1901, Georges Mélies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgpWtyT1nxM, Le Vogage dans la Lune 1902, Georges Méliés, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNAHcMMOHE8, Alice in wonderland 1903, Lewis Carroll, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeIXfdogJbA, The Great Train Robbery 1903, Edwin S. Porter, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11PBAUkrg54  

A story of Kelly Gang Crime Drama 1906, Elizabeth Tait, John Tait & Norman Campbell, https://youtu.be/1A6niZmzvoc?si=SfWtMprbqsVX_Znc| https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000574/ |  https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/when-were-movies-invented/#:~:text=The%20movies%20we%20know%20today&text=The%20first%20motion%20picture%20is,what%20we%20consider%20movies%20today

A Film Johnie 1914, Charles Chaplin, https://youtu.be/AI-IaVDLKeE?si=51OsOqXifxUMqHCP | The Adventurer 1917, Charles Chaplin, https://youtu.be/tgV3ucBlLfg?feature=shared

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920, Giuseppe Becce, https://youtu.be/Gpn49rUuOGU | Nosferatu 1922, Hans Erdmann, https://youtu.be/FC6jFoYm3xs |  Battleship Potemkim 1925, Edmund Meisel, https://youtu.be/a_bkBbrdyyw | The adventures of Prince Achmed 1926, Wolfgang Zeller, https://youtu.be/92KFRJLhi_E | Metropolis 1927, Gottfried Huppertz, https://youtu.be/W_4no842TX8 | The Jazz Singer 1927,  Louis Silvers https://youtu.be/OHi4wVQYJgc

https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/brief-history-of-sound-in-film/ | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_film | http://www.aaamusic.co.uk/2020/04/17/track-the-evolution-a-short-history-of-film-music/

https://www.filmmakersacademy.com/blog-introduction-to-sound-and-music-in-film/      A Birth of a Nation, 1915 , Joseph Carl Breil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzBNRecsp4E | Casablanca 1942 (“As Time Goes By”), Herman Hupfeld,  https://youtu.be/Y44eq2ziu0w | King Kong´s soundtrack score 1933, Max Steiner, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTdOjpGhvPs  | Winchester ’73 1950, Joseph Gershenson, https://archive.org/details/winchester-73-1950 | Fantasia 1940, Stephen Csillag, https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8pomlu | The Third Man, Anton Karas, https://archive.org/details/the-third-man-1949-restored-720p-hd | Duel in The Sun 1947, Dimitri Tiomkin, https://youtu.be/8IauiO__i3o | The Searchers 1956, Max Steiner, https://youtu.be/fUFaL7pZctA?si=E02lmbaKB54tOqP8  | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957, https://youtu.be/ZqyiRwlLa80 | 3:10 to Yuma, https://youtu.be/nkXDLNRVMxY?si=zr93KbfXhiVtMxVn | River of no return 1954, Cyril J. Mockridge, https://archive.org/details/River-of-No-Return-1954 | A streetcar named Desire 1951,Alex North, https://youtu.be/Oyuf0C_RX1k?si=7L5x2ZACzIvfku0h | La Strada 1954, Nino Rota,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcecJ0WjI38| The King and I 1956, Richard Rodgers, https://youtu.be/CwNnJooRtNc |  The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957, Malcolm Arnold, https://youtu.be/8TSVRjje4F4?si=66ePG52O0Gp_B0uv