Mistrec

Absolute barbarians

If you haven't already read it, Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

"... fatt & delicious"

Not everything went as good it could and should have since then, and things can always be better, but it's been a moment that changed lives and destinies. /end

and armoured cars patrolling neighbourhoods, is The Scorpions' Wind of Change, Black's Wonderful Life and, strangely, Kaoma's Lambada, which were aired on the TV to fill the spots between news bulletins and communiques from the provisional government /2

Cover for French magazine Paris Match, showing a teenager wrapped in the Romanian flag, under the heading Romania: We're Free

Can't believe it's 35 years since 22 December 1989, the date of the Romanian Revolution (according to some, a coup also took place, but the results are the same - the dictator, Ceaușescu, fled). For me, the sound of the revolution, besides the dry cracks of Kalashnikovs fired in the city centre /1

Sugary tea - nectar of the gods

A great adaptation of my favourite Dickens novel

Do hashtags work here? #maigret

The cover for the original French edition of Georges Simenon's Maigret à l'école (Maigret goes to school), 1954

The cover for the original French edition of Georges Simenon's Maigret à l'école (Maigret goes to school), 1954. Nice, simple design, letting the reader immediately know it's what they want, given the commissaire's cult following

Piftie or răcitură. Amazing, even if a bit of an acquired taste. Best with some paprika on top. A lighter one is made of turkey meat

The Romanian Film Festival in London opening today, 30 Nov 2023, at 6 pm!

Mammalia

Libertate

Between Revolutions

Boss

Familiar

Occasional Spies

4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days

- LIBERTATE, by Tudor Giurgiu
- MAMMALIA, by Sebastian Mihăilescu
- BOSS, by Bogdan Mirică
- World War II doc OCCASIONAL SPIES, and Romania-Iran doc BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS
- Two short films
All screenings are followed by Q&A sessions
Full programme on rofilmfest.com

The Romanian Film Festival returns to Curzon Soho for its 20th anniversary, 30 Nov-4 Dec 23, with a special programme:
- RMN, the latest from Palme d'Or winner Cristian Mungiu, and a 35 mm screening of his 2007 success 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, 2 DAYS
- FAMILIAR, by Berlinale 2013 winner Călin Peter Netzer

To emulate Terry's chocolate orange old slogan, it's not Graham's, it's mine!

Don't know why, but I fully empathise

Lord'ave mercy! I just fed the crusts of my sandwich to a couple of these drones unwittingly contributing to the bird drone lobby

If you look really carefully at the word ‘pareidolia’ you can see a pair of eyes and a nose.

I see what you did there

What? You mean birds *are* real? 🤯

Sooo many questions about that random partition. One bizarre decision of too many, how come Czechs - yes, but Slovaks - no. Not even the Greeks and Italians (except parts of Lombardy and Piedmont) make it. Definitely not thinking about the Roman Empire every day 😢

Film lovers, a special cinematic event celebrating 20 Years of the Romanian Film Festival in London takes place from 30 Nov to 4 Dec at Curzon Soho. Info and updates at rofilmfest.com

IBA 2023: 'Outsource all small claims to artificial ... Zack Kass says lawyers must prepare quickly for 'the most profound industrial revolution in human history' - or be left behind.

Because computers are always right, no? One recent string of wrongful convictions that now need to be made right springs to mind, all of them based on machine error. Also, we were supposed to be living on the moon by now, and I want my flying car they promised

George Nicholls said to us all
As he went to a fancy dress ball:
“No way am I faking,
I’m going as bacon”
And a dog ate him up in the hall.

Toshiro Mifune in the final scenes of Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood (1957), a jidaigeki (Japanese period drama) remaigining of Macbeth

Also Japanese style (admittedly as portrayed by Toshiro Mifune in Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood, 1957)

Nikita Khrushchev Visits Iowa Farm | Photograph | Wisconsin Historical Society Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev inspecting hogs on a farm. Khrushchev is accompanied by Roswell "Bob" Garst and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge.

Joke possibly started because of this image: www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Imag...

Old joke from behind the Iron Curtain: Khrushchev once visited a pig farm and they snapped him for the local paper admiring their prize boars. When editing it, question about captioning: isn't "Comrade K among the swine" too dangerous to say? So they went with "Comrade K, third from the left"

You have my admiration. I lived there more than fifteen years and still around 51% mark. I probably used the Metropolitan Line maximum 10 times beyond Baker St, and once or twice beyond Neasden, so it's a total mystery