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Oh, I just remembered a great (i.e. terrible) one of these: did you know that whenever you smell anything, it is because little tiny pieces of that thing have physically entered your nose?
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Also I can’t tell if the casting of Ali Hakim is just typical Hollywood brownface, or if the character is diegetically supposed to be a white guy who goes by “Ali Hakim” because he thinks it’ll sell rugs.
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I went into this already thinking “it’s weird that there’s a whole song that’s like ‘Judd Fry, kys’,” but I would like to update that thought to include “also, it’s weird that Judd offers to show Curly some pornography.”
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(By which I mean: this is not quite working for me, and I don’t know if it’s this version or if I just do not really like Oklahoma!.)
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The score is weirdly atypical and old fashioned, leaning *heavily* on solo pipe organ. It works, though — encoding “horror” rather than horror, like “Yes, fear is the appropriate emotion here, go ahead and feel it — but this is an exercise in pure form. You needn’t ACTUALLY care about these people.”
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For grading I’ll just tell them all:
Traveller! Your reward for writing this paper is the amount of work that you put into it. You, and you alone, already know how well you did.
Your own words have sealed your fate: no words of mine can change it. (B+)
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If the point of college is the credential, it’s important to make sure that nobody cheats. If the point is to train some perhaps-small percentage of the students to actually *think,* though…
I gotta start assigning more papers.
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Maybe the true path is to assign the papers, tell students how important they are, and just accept that some of them will cheat and get away with it.
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“Although jetskis are useful in some situations, like competing in the 100 meter backstroke…”
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Have you done the Dagwood yet? I like that people actually make sandwiches that are designed for the inhuman cartoon anatomy of Blondie’s husband.
It’s like if a restaurant served “spinach a la Popeye” where after you eat it they take you out back and let you try to punch a battleship.
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Carrot is sweet and pure - but it’s also more or less explicitly stated that Carrot’s instincts, if left unchecked, would lead to a reign of terror. Like, keeping a lid on Carrot is possibly one of the most important jobs that Vimes has.
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They’re not even wrong that they’re cheaper than meat - but there’s something *particularly* tone deaf about opening this with “Eggs! The famously affordable food that nobody is worried about the price of.”
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Very bold of Camerata Pacifica to program Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumors”
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Hi Dean, I’d be happy to chat! I’m probably easier to reach over Bluesky than I am over email, but if you want to reach me that way my address is [email protected]
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I give them 100s because I want to make sure that the point totals line up with what I put in the syllabus (and I do not trust myself to do this extremely simple math)
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I love how they felt the need to add that last panel. Bushmiller all like “we like to have fun here, but I need to make it clear — for the sake of the continuity of the Nancy Cinematic Universe — that the US government did not shoot and kill God.”
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“I am soiled and empty, yet still I dance”
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You can get the illuminated manuscript game Pentiment on the switch.
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this is one of the great things about exploring new rep via recordings, you can never be properly jumpscared by a chorus in a live performance
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Hell yeah!
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I like the alternate version where he drags a bowl of soup to hell.
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The 1923 version of the Ten Commandments is a hoot, if you like silent movies. (And really nothing like the later version.)
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All of the songs have titles like “1. Scattered.” “2. Smothered and covered.” etc.
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Oh, interesting. I need to reread it, then! That aspect went over kid-me’s head completely.
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[“Law and Order” appears on the screen]
Me, nodding sagely: “Aha! The Lady or the Tiger.”
[the subtitle appears, “Criminal Intent”]
Me: “Ack! Crap! Tiger, Tiger, Tiger! Fuck!”
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What’s interesting is that - although I *have* heard that title used that way! - that’s not how the story works at all. The lady isn’t a shitty outcome!
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Yeah - there are a lot of famous short stories, but relatively few where you can say “that’s a real [title of the story] situation”
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Ficta
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those colors!
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So is the idea that Bruckner (or rather, the appropriated Bruckner) is the reactionary mirror image of modernism, then?
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With respect, it absolutely does not speak for itself, and all of you know it.
“People always ask me what my movies mean” yeah because your movies are seductively bewildering, do you think Adam Sandler is fielding similar questions?
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Untitled Goose Game is a bit like this, actually — with a capture-the-flag loop that forces you to keep making incursions into the territory controlled by the lumbering unkillable colossi.
It’s more about getting in than about getting out, mostly, but there’s some good skedaddlin’ to be had.
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Staten Island is also a borough, though, and “he lives in Staten Island” sounds fully deranged.
(Then again, island is right there in the name.)
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What’s weird is that Wagner liked Siegfried so much.
Like granted, Wagner is not known for having good opinions. But even so.