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*Fancypants* For the culturally inclined and aspiring ~ In today's episode: Biggles reveals her potentially unsettling breadth of knowledge on talking mummies in literature
I love the Symposium!
A Socratic aside: I've always thought poor Xanthippe got short shrifted by history, coming down to us solely as a crotchety broad. On the other hand, she might have the last laugh, how many actual (ever marginalized) ancient Greek women have anything of them remembered at all?
I suppose I could put this in the social group, but I'm not fully feeling that idea, it seems. 'Course, it doesn't need sharing at all, but the thread could use resuscitating. Baby, hold on!
Yep, yep, nice for him to be branching out, I hope it goes swimmingly.
Oh, given your love of surrealism, you might be interested to know that Leonora Carrington died the other day. She had some truly engaging works (again cementing my preference for female surrealists over the male ones :sweat:)
Gilliam is sweeping him up. On occasion, when they get together publicly since he passed, they bring out an urn and claim it's Graham. More than once they've spilled "him" as well.
Yay, I just got back from SIFF's live stream of The Importance of Being Ernest, which I treated my mum to. We had such a good time. The production (mentioned previously) was fantastic. It illicted many, many laughs. It's gratifying to know Oscie's material still has that impact :3 If any of you get the chance to see it, do! It's the same set up as The Met does with it's operas, though I don't know, or rather doubt, that it would make it to PBS as the operas do, but unno. Speaking of which, come on folks, if you've got PBS, which most of you must, take notice and make use of those occasions. But I digress. I gathered some of the material available, and in July they've* got a live stream of The Cherry Orchard, with top billing going to... Ms. Zoe Wanamaker, woo. I'm really wanting to immerse myself more in the Russian classics, so I'm definitely making an attempt to see that too. I also learned that they streamed some of the performances of [I]Frankenstein[/], same as the one KatMagenta: saw. I really need to get in the loop with these things.
*Seattle International Film Festival, is, of course, a festival, taking place every year for a few weeks at various venues around the area, but they also maintain a cinema at the Seattle Center for events year round.
That certainly sounds interesting. I remember reading Craig Ferguson's book. Very interesting, considering that for most of the book the main character is on LSD.
Depends on what you're in the mood for. I've been reading a lot of magical realism lately. I just finished Jasper Fforde's Shades of Grey, about a society than can only see certain colors, and has a class system based on that. It's listed as a romance by my library, but it's more like Farenheit 451, in that he's discovering that what he was told his entire life isn't true.
Oh yeah, I forgot he wrote a memoir too. i should read that.
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