Saul Tobias

I don't think I've had it in hamantaschen but my grandmother - Lithuanian - used to bake babke with thick seams of povidla.

They look great. Are they poppyseed? If so, I would be happy to dispose of them for you.

If Talarico loses in November but starts to move the dial on reviving a social gospel Christianity in the face of Christian nationalism it will be worth it

There's so much great (peer-reviewed!) data hanging out at @post45data.bsky.social for people to explore and play with! 100 years of major prizes (and the judges)! Everyone who went to Iowa Writers' Workshop (and who they studied with)! All NEA lit awardees! The Canon of Asian Am Lit! So much more!

‘Amadeus’ Review: Jefferson Mays Shines as a Funny and Frothing Salieri in a Gorgeously Mounted, Essential Revival at the Pasadena Playhouse The revival of 'Amadeus' at the Pasadena Playhouse is everything you could hope for, from the rich stage design to Jefferson Mays' riveting Salieri.

Saw this fantastic production of Amadeus last week. The cherry on the top was how often the Salieri character shittalks Rossini.
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Just started the new McEwan. Not sure yet whether he's doing something interesting or just being self-indulgent.

As an academic I have been silenced! Yesterday I taught three classes with a cold and now I have no voice.

Gorton and Denton? The Demon Barbers of Fleet Street? The No Win No Fee Workplace Accident Solicitor Firm? The scientific names for the upper row of teeth and the lower row?

Styles of facial hair named after famous Victorian generals?

I would throw in King Lear but otherwise perfect!

A Taiwanese Lunar New Year dinner cooked by @fredchichih.bsky.social

Bowls of rehydrating jujube, goji, shrimps, tofu skin, black woodear fungus and shitake

Food prep for a belated lunar new year feast with @fredchichih.bsky.social

Hollywood: has a Scots, Irish, English name because of all those Scots, Irish, Englishmen who built it.

And doing double work for Brooks and Hume.

I heard y'all wanted a thread on "El Apagón"

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

YouTube video by 3Axel1996 Torvill & Dean (GBR) - 1985 World Professional Figure Skating Championships, Artistic Dance "Venus"

This is the one I remember from childhood. I was of an 'artistic' temperament.
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Steve Bell cartoon of john major with voluminous union jack underpants over his suit in john wayne stance. Speech bubble says: underpants on stun.

C'mon it's obvious

a woman is standing in a living room with her arms outstretched and laughing . ALT: a woman is standing in a living room with her arms outstretched and laughing .

jeans = 👖

genes = 🧬

Gene =

Maggie Smith dressed in purple in a classroom from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Also Jean

When you're living high on the hog, you're reluctant to rock the trough

Movie poster of Hamnet

Just saw Hamnet. Give Jesse Buckley and Chloe Zhao the Oscar.

YouTube video by mayhew7 Mitch & Mickey - A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow

I'm just gonna leave this here. RIP to one of the greats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwLZ...

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... working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.'
Paxton, Robert (2004)The Anatomy of Fascism, Alfred A. Knopf.

Here is Robert Paxton's definition, make of it what you will: a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants ...

Ruth was clingy

Fim poster of Babette's Feast. Shows Babette in period costume against a stark landscape. Title is in Danish.

May I recommend this little Danish gem? My all-time favorite film and i swear i'm not just saying that

My sense is that what Kristof is describing as complacency is really pragmatism. Taiwanese have lived with this threat for decades and have compartmentalized it in order to get on with their lives. That doesn't mean they're unprepared to fight.

Yes to Smørrebrød and cinnamon buns, no to learning Danish.