This is an interesting and often funny discussion on myths, fantasy, childhood and how stories come to exist. @neilhimself is always fun to listen to and learn from
“What You Need to Be Warm” by @neilhimself is out this week. Very proud of my dear wife Yuliya (sadly not on fedi) for contributing one of the spreads alongside 12 other wonderful illustrators. Part of every sale goes towards the UNHCR!
It's intermission rn and uggghhh it's so good. I need to re-read the book so badly. I think I'll always love the book more but the adaptation to stage works surprisingly well.
It was incredible. I almost cried as much at the end as I did when reading, though not as hard. The technical aspects were amazing, the effects spellbinding. The puppetry!! The acting was very good but everything else just blew me away. The way the stagehands and scene changes were incorporated and sometimes interacted with the characters were so creative and clever, they added a meta level to the topic of storytelling. And being one of my favourite stories by @neilhimself helped too, of course.
"It is worth getting inside Trump’s head a bit and imagining his mood following an election victory. He will have spent the previous year, and more, fighting to stay out of jail, plagued by myriad persecutors and helpless to do what he likes to do best: exact revenge. Think of the fury that will have built up inside him, a fury that, from his point of view, he has worked hard to contain. ..."
Why do people believe that Trump’s revenge would not be like proscriptions of Marius or Sulla, but with the power of the surveillance state and tactical precision of drones?
My whole life I’ve been into geography and yet — after 50+ trips around the Sun — it was like two weeks ago that I learned that Appalachia is pronounced Appa-LATCH-ia … not Appa-LAY-chia 🤦🏾♂️
Also, Y’ALL (Young Appalachian Leaders and Learners) apparently got issues with JD Vance’s best-selling #book “Hillbilly Elegy”
@seanalan I read Hillbilly Elegy several years ago. I am interested in your thoughts on the response. On my TBR list! Thanks for posting about it! @bookstodon#books
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy. You are a young Russian woman living in the late 19th century, where a successful romance seems quite impossible for the obliviously wealthy; you try to break the mold but the mold wins. 4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈.
@jofagobe@bookstodon The Kitty storyline ended very unsatisfyingly for me; it seemed built for contrast to Anna’s, but didn’t really deliver on that, at least for me.
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; #culture-death is a clear possibility.
How did i miss that?!? Yes, that is one of the ones i've read. Considering when it was written, and before the internet/digital age, WOW!!! That is one i'd like to re-read. I've yet to get anyone else to read it, but i keep trying :)
Thanks for sharing!
Le 5 mars 1535, le consulat de #Lyon décide de remplacer le médecin François Rabelais du fait de ses absences dans ses fonctions à l'Hôtel-Dieu.
Arrivé en 1532 à Lyon alias "Myrelingues la brumeuse", l'écrivain y publie Pantagruel (1532) puis Gargantua (1534) sous le pseudonyme d'Alcofribas Nasier.
Extr. du registre de délibérations consulaires conservé aux #ArchivesDeLyon (cote BB 25, folio 23r).
I try to be very positive and cheerful about my profession: teaching. It's a fluffing tough job and you have to see the best in it - every lesson, every day, every student. And it can be the most rewarding and important job a person could do. But, my goodness, today was a challenge. When your leaders don't seem to care about their staff and are actively making it more difficult for you, you just get worn down. But. Tomorrow is a new day. Always. #Teaching#Education#edutooter@edutooters
@edutooters@hlseward
I’m not a teacher but close family members have been, so I offer this:
On particularly bad days when you’re sure you can't possibly cope, it can sometimes help to remind yourself that your track record for getting through bad days so far is 100%.
@michaelcymro@edutooters@hlseward @actuallyautistic @bookstodon
I added this message, to actually my actually autistic group and book group for relevancy of book by Fred Roger’s.
The message may seem ableist to some in my group, but at the end of the day, “We are in all this together”. ♾️❤️
Latest item listed on eBay as I continue raising funds for new Eating the Fantastic podcasting equipment — the DC Comics 1994 Editorial Presentation — in which Death is called "the most popular supporting character in all of comics" — which I expect caused @neilhimself to blush. https://www.ebay.com/itm/166371988714
I pretty much 100% recovered from my bout with the COVID. Slight sniffle, but then again, I spend pretty much the entire winter with one, so who knows? Seems like the rest of the family, even the unboosted one, has avoided my fate, which is great. Probably shouldn't go back to hockey tomorrow though, at least if I'm reading the CDC guidelines correctly. I'll just wait until next Tuesday to get back on the ice.
I've been playing the Guardians of the Galaxy computer game. It's a strange one. 🤔 It has a bit of combat and some character progression, but it really is more about puzzle-solving and plot(!) than a real RPG. It even has quicktime events, which I thought disappeared years ago. Still fun though. And 4 Guys Co-op had a long session of Serious Sam 4 but we couldn't get level 3 finished. I may have to ease the difficulty a bit. @videogames#videogames
Also been getting plenty of reading done in my last week of freedom. I finished The Swerve, which was a fascinating (no really!) look at a medieval humanist and his efforts to uncover ancient texts, including a pivotal book by the Roman philosopher Lucretius, On The Nature Of Things, which the author posits as "How The World Became Modern". No really, it's great stuff! I've started on the 2nd Cormoran Strike book, The Silkworm. @bookstodon#books#AmReading
Anyone lucky enough to be in NYC on Oct 17, 2023 might consider attending this fascinating lecture.
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself is a wonderful speaker, and basically a world expert on Norse mythology.
Maria Dahvana Headley's new translation/rewriting of Beowolf is like seeing it in a whole new light. The depth of meaning and beauty of her word choice made me shake my head in wonder more than a few times.
Online post by Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.n.. October 17th in NYC. It will be fun and educational and you will learn a lot about Norse Mythology and the Iliad and suchlike. Do come.