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December 22, 2021
The Good Shepherd
"Israeli researchers on Wednesday displayed a Roman-era golden ring with an early Christian symbol for Jesus inscribed in its gemstone, found in a shipwreck off the ancient port of Caesarea."
December 21, 2021
On the air - We are now (April 28, 2020)
Featuring Dolly Parton, Grimes, Sheryl Crow and Linda Perry.
December 20, 2021
Amanda Milius - The Lotus Gun (2015)
"The year is 2077. Society has collapsed. There are no cities, no guns. Just wanderers trying to survive. Nora and Daphine live an idyllic life alone and in love, far away from the drug-fueled, misogynistic communes that have trapped so many others. But when a male stranger arrives, their utopian existence takes a dark turn."
December 18, 2021
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"The thing I have noticed is when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There's something wrong with the way you are measuring it."
– Jeff Bezos
December 14, 2021
December 13, 2021
Post-conquest Aztec altar uncovered in Mexico City
"Sometime after Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan in modern-day Mexico City in 1521, an indigenous household that survived the bloody Spanish invasion arranged an altar including incense and a pot with human ashes."
December 11, 2021
The KLF feat. Tammy Wynette - Justified & Ancient (Tops of the Pops, December 1991)
December 05, 2021
Nigel Kneale - Beasts: Ep. 1 Special Offer (1976)
"Beasts is a 1976 British television series. Written by Nigel Kneale, it is an anthology of six self-contained episodes that feature the recurring theme of bestial horror."
December 03, 2021
Turner Prize 2021 Nominee | Array Collective | Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
"Belfast-based activist group the Array Collective, have been crowned winners of the prestigious Turner Prize 2021.
"Judges praised the group for addressing social and political issues in Northern Ireland, and for translating their activism into artwork. Their work includes a mock Irish pub adorned in banners advocating reproductive rights and protesting against conversion therapy."
December 02, 2021
Who’s Afraid of Dasha Nekrasova?
"It was when she was promoting a film called Wobble Palace — a rom-com about a millennial couple trying to save their open relationship that she co-wrote and co-starred in with Eugene Kotlyarenko, who directed it — at South by Southwest in 2018 that she found her breakout role: herself. Dressed in a sort of sailor outfit, she was accosted by an Infowars reporter outside a talk by Senator Bernie Sanders. “You people have, like, worms in your brain, honestly,” she says, looking unbothered between sips of an iced coffee. She was soon dubbed Sailor Socialism, and John Oliver and others ate it up."
With thanks to Mr. Percifield.
December 01, 2021
How Jeremy Irons Rescued and Restored a 15th-Century Irish Castle
"Somewhere between Ballydehob and Skibbereen, the G.P.S. directed me down a narrow country road toward an indentation in the southwestern Irish coast called Roaringwater Bay. The castle I was looking for had been one of the last to fall to the English, in the early 1600s, in a coda to the historic Battle of Kinsale, which sealed Elizabethan England’s conquest of Gaelic Ireland. The Crown’s forces had approached on horseback and by sea, with muskets, swords, and malevolent intent. I was approaching by appointment, in a white Kia Sportage."