Mark Doyle

Well that's too bad. Thanks for this.

Agreed, though I am interested in the ways he gets repurposed in pop & political culture. This doc looks like it may be a good way in for students, but we shall see.

No idea. I'm hoping to see it in the next week or two.

New Orwell documentary - anyone seen?

Will it motivate me finally go ahead and design the Orwell class I've been contemplating for the last 41 years?

New Orwell documentary - anyone seen?

I hesitate to say this, but you're all using "reticent" incorrectly.

Poster features a painting of Buster Keaton and Marion Byron riding a steamship during a fearsome storm.

German poster for STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (1928), starring and co-directed by Buster Keaton - BOTD in 1895

So I hear. I bet that one's going over really well with her elementary- and middle-school fanbase

I know a guy in wealth management who had an entire bourbon room built into his house even though he's "not much of a bourbon drinker." A little bit of keeping up with the Joneses, a little bit of trying to impress the clients, one assumes.

I'm also told there's a track on the album about underappreciated British novelist Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975), which is really quite something.

I'm told some people are even playing it all the way through.

Whatever the merits or demerits of that pop album that came out yesterday, it's actually very heartening to find the album still showing some relevance as a cultural form.

It may be just me, but Frank Sinatra has the look of a man trying to sneakily pinch Duke Ellington's bum in this photo

This album is very good and you should buy it.

Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)), by jaimie branch 9 track album

#NowPlaying - We lost a bright light when we lost jaimie branch, but holy hell that light shone bright.

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Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)), by jaimie branch 9 track album

#NowPlaying - We lost a bright light when we lost jaimie branch, but holy hell that light shone bright.

intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/fly-or...

Jane Goodall was a tremendous role model for both of my daughters. What a fine way to live.

Cover of the album A Tribute to Jack Johnson, by Miles Davis. Davis is shown in profile, in black and white, playing his horn with his knees bending forward and his upper body leaning back; together with the horn, his shape approximates that of the number 7.

Sliding into the weekend like:

That flood of relief when a website verifies that you're a human...

Seven months in and we're already entering our Show Trial Era. Impressive.

King Gizzard Rules Our Hearts And our charts.

nice little interview of King Gizzard, incredible news in there - all their albums have a Name your own price policy. that's equally bold and logical considering they removed their discography from Spotify earlier this year

Will do. Thanks!

That's good to know. I should probably poke around some UK publishers' websites (I've finished the Hollywood stories, btw).

I can see how that might be the case. People escaping the daily barrage of news alerts and notifications for 800 pages of deep focus.

Do short story collections sell better now than they used to, now that everyone's attention span is so short? Is this something publishers are eager to put out? I ask as a man clutching a collection of thematically linked stories that I would very much like to see published.

"Breeze blows leaves of a musty-coloured yellow
So I sweep them in my sack"
--Ray Davies, "Autumn Almanac"

Wondering if I can get the president to zoom into my Resisting Fascism class this week...

Screen shot from the end of a ChatGPT-generated essay in response to an essay prompt from one of my classes. It says "Would you like me to make this sound more like a student essay (straightforward, with simpler phrasing and transitions), or keep it in this more polished, literary-critical tone?"

I see ChatGPT is now going out of its way to make it easier for students to cheat with it. Not great.

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