This and That

A Concept I Love: Fainting Couch
The RWNJ media regularly shouts, ‘where is my fainting couch,” and “I need my clutching pearls.” Not literally, of course: that would show too much self-awareness. But watching them swoon pleases me and makes me think of these metaphors
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An Insult I Love: How Stupid
From the comic strip Pearls Before Swine, “How does a guy as stupid as you put his pants on in the morning?”
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A Quote I Love: Love and Intelligence
“Love means not being able to stop your heart trampling all over your intelligence.”
-- Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly
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Movie Brief: Passing *****
This Nettflix film about a black woman passing as white, is part of a genre, which also includes White Lies from New Zealand a few years ago. Apparently, good things to not come to people who deny their racial heritage. (An almost perfect 99 minutes)
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Ted Lasso
Ted has heart-warming Christmas message in Ted Lasso animated short
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Typing and Writing
Further on the subject I covered recently, The Effect of Writing Tools on Writing. Can “Distraction-Free” Devices Change the Way We Write?  | The New Yorker