December 14, 2019
Goodbye Baby: RIP Jack Scott
Jack Scott, the "quiet elder statesman of Detroit rock ‘n’ roll", died of a heart attack at the age of 83. [more inside]
Around the World in Forty Days
The marriage of Austronesian outrigger designs with modern "foiling" has been smashing sailing records. In the past three decades, times for many unrestricted sailing records have been cut more-or-less in half. [more inside]
"the nexus of various intersecting social realities of privilege"
In 2014, Patrick Blanchfield took a deep look at the report of the Connecticut Office of the Child Advocate (OCA) on the killing of 20 schoolchildren and 6 adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut: Sandy Hook, “White-on-White Crime,” and How Privilege Kills [more inside]
Admittedly, the connection to Christmas is pretty thin.
Saturday matinee: Silent Night, Bloody Night (4:3 SD 16:9 HD on YouTube, widescreen on Wikipedia, or enhanced widescreen from Archive.org) came out in 1972 and was a precursor to the slasher films of the late 1970s and 1980s (Horror News), but still in between genres, with an unusual mix of old dark house thriller, small town secret mystery, and ax-murdering mania (Culture Crypt). If this public domain isn't scratching your itch, Daily Dot currently lists another 44 free films on YouTube with brief descriptions so you're not clicking blindly, with guidance on how to find more movies.
Obviously a Metaphor For Something
Bisexuals of the Blade
After a wedding photo shared by a guest blew up on Twitter, the brides created their own twitter account to respond to their admirers, answer questions, and post more photos.
The Great And Terrible
“ These days, I cannot bring myself to sell my students any kind of American rhetorical goods which claim to be equally available to all of them. I cannot bring myself to tell them about the technicolor future, to say, I see you there, and I see you there, because there is a chance that even if I see it, and I believe in it, someday we’re all going to wake up and I will have betrayed them by dreaming too vividly at the front of the room. ” The Man Behind the Curtain (Electric Lit)
♞ “Justice in Spades!” ♖
The Seven-Year Saga Of Shovel Knight Is Finally Over [Kotaku] “This week, Yacht Club Games launched Shovel Knight: King of Cards and Shovel Knight: Showdown, the final two entries in what’s become a five-game saga. As part of a now-finished compilation, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, they mark the end to an odyssey that started nearly seven years ago. And now, in December of 2019, Shovel Knight is finally complete. The compilation, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, contains all four campaigns and the multiplayer mode. It’s over. Done. No more widening the scope, no more adding just a few more levels here and there. “We promised ourselves: Nothing after this,” said Velasco. “We’ve gotta be done, move on to something else.”” [YouTube][Game Trailer] [more inside]
Hosting an Orgy?
This 1970s Cookbook Has You Covered (Lizzy Saxe, LitHub).
No one will RTFA
What is the best Adam Sandler movie? This is a ranking of the best Adam Sandler movies, as opposed to Adam Sandler’s best movies — that would imply a universal value, which I reject; this is about relative value. I ranked Sandler’s movies not by which was the best movie (again, whatever that means!) but by which was the best at being an Adam Sandler movie.
The Suits of James Bond
The Suits of James Bond is a site created by Matt Spaiser, which aims to be the "ultimate resource for James Bond style and the first catalogue of all of 007’s outfits". Its many articles include (00)7 Rules to Wearing a Suit with a James Bond Mentality; A Guide to English Bespoke Suit Style; Ian Fleming: The Wardrobe Model For James Bond; and What Kind of Underwear Would Bond Wear?. There's also an initial Sartorial Guide to the forthcoming movie No Time to Die. [more inside]
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