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Zebra Committee
Hahaha imagining the movie’s reddit-selected production council reviewing meeting minutes like a latter-day Munster family, pallid and rhombus-headed. Everyone having insane power trips, mods banning accounts of other financiers, using reddit to whistleblow set drama. Could be a horror film in itself; he who bedded with the reddit mafia to fund a horror dream. It’s…
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Dio Knees
when pictured like this, with its darkened viewing rooms, costumed audiences in fine silks with foreheads girdled by gem-set diadems, and the increasing abuse of the locus amoenus as a tool of subversion, it recalls how the origins of cinematic viewing experiences are rooted in bacchic and dionysian mystery theatres. in an oblique yet definite…
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Bene Diction
Quality Siegfried Sassers biopic. Sadly missing Robert Graves but perhaps that’s mercy after last year’s The Laureate. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6852178/
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Abraham LinkedIn
In Terje J Simonsen’s A Short History of Nearly Everything Paranormal, the author describes two fortean occurrences preceding Lincoln’s assassination. The pharmakos President experienced a strange, retroactively-prophetic dream in which he traversed the White House’s deserted corridors until he came upon a light-drenched parlor, wherein a grief-hushed crowd waked a corpse. He entered, drew close to…
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Tempus Fu-Jitsu
When my grandfather, dad’s dad, was dying in hospital in the early 90s, there was concern among the family that they would be unable to contact the youngest son, my uncle. At that time, said uncle was teaching in a remote Zimbabwean village which had a single rotary phone for community use. Despite large time…