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We’ve finished reading LUCAS WARS, the incredible graphic novel telling of the making of Star Wars by Renaud Roche & Laurent Hopman and for us it’s right up there with the Rinzler book. Even if you already know the saga behind the saga, you’ll love this. Preorder it today!@23rdstbooks.bsky.social

Really enjoyed this episode, especially when you read the descriptions of Lake Buena Shopping Village with the easy listening bops in the background. What I wouldn’t give to go back in time and walk around there (in my Brooksgate blazer of course!).

I have a friend who was in Japanese libraries researching human rights abuses in WWII and she said that she was the first to open many of the boxes since they were sealed during the war….

Well, looks like they spoiled the plot twist in Ahsoka Season 2

I would read that article

None better

Amazing work you are doing!

I’m loving Holder’s rhetoric here. If there weren’t so many racists in America I might say, “Holder for President!”

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Brightly-coloured interior of a motel, including: white and turquoise chequered flooring, spiral staircase, wood-panelled walls, red and yellow kitchen

Wood-panelled bar, including art of B-52s, Peggy Lee and Etta James

Dining table, with fruit bowl full of plastic fruit and vegetables

Lounge area with yellow sofas, wallpaper depicting a forest scene, and a bright orange wall on which a framed painting of some puffins hangs

I spend a lot of time thinking about when Kate Pierson from the B-52s put her motel up for sale (furniture included)

A lion in winter - Parterre Box Sherrill Milnes sits down with Brendan Latimer to talk about his life, career, and what he hopes to pass along to the next generation

A really lovely profile of Sherrill Milnes, a national treasure whose thrilling baritone deserves to be loved and enjoyed by new generations.

parterre.com/2025/08/01/a... A lion in winter - Parterre Box

Wut?

Let’s goooooo!! 🦢🗡️ Spoiler alert: he’s Parsifal’s son 😮

The 50th anniversary release of Star Wars should be a different version for every showing. Will you get the DVD version with the flipped surround sound channels? The mono mix? The pan and scan VHS on imax? You have to go and find out!

It’s possible that Hagen married Woglinde and sired a race of mer-dwarves that live on the bottom of the Rhine to this day

I still want to know what happened with the 20 million dead people that Musk said were getting Social Security payments. His DOGE gang couldn't find any. So are they still getting their checks?

Marin Birkenstock campus to become a museum celebrating these midcentury designers — San Francisco Chronicle A nonprofit dedicated to the legacy of midcentury designers Ray and Charles Eames is buying the former Birkenstock campus in Marin County, and plans to redevelop the property as a global art and desig...

This is really cool. The Birkenstock campus has been vacant for so long. And Charles and Ray Eames are such wonderful designers and dreamers. We need this positivity in our world! #MCM #Eames

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If you're in the LA area, hit it up ASAP!

Bayreuth Vinylman Vinilos Eternos

Oh I see! This channel’s live stream is worth trying, it seemed to stream earlier in the day than others earlier this week but I’m not sure if it will tomorrow: youtube.com/@bayreuthvin...

The timing of one of these streams might allow you to catch the Norns!: operacast.com/bayreuth_202... operacast - Bayreuth 2025

The retconning in gotterdammerung drove GB Shaw crazy too!

Some help for the confused. #Parsifal

An Introduction: www.monsalvat.no/parsifal.htm

Synopsis and notes on the principal characters: www.monsalvat.no/synopsis.htm

Libretto with translation & commentary: www.monsalvat.no/parsifal-lib...

All about the Leitmotive: www.monsalvat.no/startup-guid...

Let’s goooooo!!

Ha! Which translation is this?

Nice! But Wotan was history by the time Wagner started reading Art Schopenhauer, whose galaxy brain ideas suffused Tristan and Parsifal. I rec this beautiful book about it all.

Split the difference and read Schopenhauer

Agreed!! And he sounds even better in Act II! You almost feel sorry for him, despite his dwarf quasi-patricide.

KFV is singing BEAUTIFULLY today! Dude injects a lotta emotion and sensitivity into it. Almost makes you LIKE Siegfried, which is saying a LOT.

Wouldn’t be the first time a Wagner rookie attended Bayreuth with a free ticket. These guys probably didn’t dare leave after Act 1 though. On the bright side, they saw a traditional staging.

On Disneyland’s 70th, as we watch the erosion of artistic integrity, theming and foundational values, let’s review “The Art of The Disney Theme Show.” Principles discussed in this film have been discarded by haughty management teams who think they know better. Link:

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YouTube video by Keeping Walt in Disney Walt Disney's The Further Adventures of Gallegher: Part 1 "A Case of Murder" Season 12 Ep 2

TFW two of your obsessive worlds of interest collide (Walt Disney spoofing Alfred Hitchcock Presents!)

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