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YouTube video by strindberghelium Strindberg and Helium in Absinthe and Women

Speaking of Strindberg, haven't revisited this classic in awhile

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Vera Brittain, taking a break from the grim duties of nursing in World War I by indulging in the oh-so-gentle, soothing pleasures of August Strindberg. Gotta admire the determination here

Yeah, he's a fun one. There's a great statue of him at the Parmentier metro stop in Paris

What can I say, sometimes you just gotta revisit the classics

Antoine-Augustin Parmentier energy intensifies

Boy, you know, seeing students get excited about their research projects never gets old

The Maison du Roi, literally talking turkey in 1785

Adventures in class prep, a continuing series

Aw crud, Kino Lorber's weekend sale is for a bunch of deep-cut Westerns. Aw crud aw crud aw crud

Friendship with grating lemon zest ended. Now peeling and finely mincing lemon zest is my best friend

ZING! I'm here all night, folks

Death drive - Wikipedia

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Edmund Burke if he got kicked in the head by a horse

From Isaac Chotiner's interview with Cass Sunstein (www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...)

Jackpot at the used bookstore

Yes, why should a 350+ page Oeuvres inédites have a table of contents? Thanks, nineteenth-century guy who made that decision!

Some sections of the Ottoman army were so poorly equipped in World War I that they sometimes had to go barefoot (Leila Tarazi Fawaz, 2014)

In shocking news, making PowerPoints on World War I can be a real bummer

Arthur McCalla. Religion and the Post-Revolutionary Mind: Idéologues, Catholic Traditionalists, and Liberals in France | University of Toronto Quarterly View all available purchase options and get full access to this article.

Out now with @utpjournals.bsky.social: my review of Arthur McCalla's Religion and the Post-Revolutionary Mind: Idéologues, Catholic Traditionalists, and Liberals in France

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Excel and PowerPoint open at the same time. Please pray for the hamsters turning the tiny crank that apparently powers my computer

Really a guy of Great Expectations, as it happens

Boy, folks, this Sir David Lean guy. Pretty good director, don’t know if anyone’s heard

48 years ago today

Released on this day in 1977, Lust for Life, the second studio album by Iggy Pop, his second solo release and his second collaboration with David Bowie, following The Idiot earlier in the year.

#punkrock #iggypop #lustforlife #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Vaine pâture (a form of common grazing rights, more or less) only abolished in France beginning in 1889, according to Wallerstein (Wallerstein, 2011)

Tickets to Dwight Yoakam: acquired!

Royals (Saint-Just remix)

preach the Truth to the face of Falsehood

The question has been "how can we tell these masked government thugs from people pretending to be masked government thugs?" and the answer isn't just "we can't" but that not being able to tell is the point. Republicans want to encourage & activate independent vigilante kidnapping & brutality squads.

They Want You To Forget What A Film Looks Like - Aftermath The 4K transfer of True Lies is what happens when a company uses proprietary tech to overwrite and denoise history.

Tremendous piece by Chris Person on the pointless mutilation of film history by morons, overeager tech-heads (a subspecies of moron), and directors who've gotten lost in the sauce of unbridled capitalism.

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Sweden taking the “disposable razor” approach and just adding a fourth estate (Wallerstein, 2011)

Heathrow doesn't allow you to take catapults in your carry-on, but they don't say anything about trebuchets. Loophole!